My Go-To Cream Cheese Frosting

Friday, January 13, 2012

My Go-To Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream cheese frosting makes everything better. This recipe has appears on my blog so many times, I decided it deserves it’s own post. I’ve used it to top cinnamon rolls, Oreo cupcakes, Carrot Cake Cheesecake, and everything in between.

When you’re making cream cheese frosting, make sure you give the cream cheese enough time to come to room temperature. If it’s still cold, the frosting will be clumpy. And no one likes clumpy frosting! I usually set mine out at least 2 hours prior to whipping up the frosting.

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Cream Cheese Frosting

This is my go-to cream cheese frosting. It will make enough frosting for 12 cupcakes and can easily be doubled.

Yield: 1 cup (enough to frost 12 cupcakes)

Ingredients:

4 oz cream cheese at room temp
1/2 stick (4 Tbsp) butter at room temp
1/2 Tbsp vanilla
1 1/2-2 cups powdered sugar

Directions:

Place the cream cheese in the bowl of your mixer. Beat on medium-high until completely smooth, 3-4 minutes. Add the butter and continue to cream until fluffy.

Add vanilla extract. Slowly add powdered sugar (1/4 cup at a time) until desired consistency is reached.

Dessert, Frosting, Go-To Recipes

8 comments »

10 Responses to “Cookie Dough Chocolate Ice Cream Cupcakes”

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Janna — June 2, 2008 at 2:43 pm

These look awesome!
Did it take a long time to get the ice cream to freeze?
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Jen — June 2, 2008 at 8:03 pm

Janna,

I let it set in the ice cream about 30 minutes between each step. I wasn’t in a big hurry and 30 minutes was perfect.
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Lisa — June 5, 2008 at 4:03 pm

I love the last photo, the way the ice cream has so perfectly filled the liner and the way the frosting swirls on top. And that frosting sounds fabulous! I am going to try it on my Chile Variado Cupcakes for an extra spicy combination.
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Ivy — June 5, 2008 at 6:34 pm

This was a REAALLY good idea!
I love cookie-dough anything. 🙂
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Katie — June 7, 2008 at 5:28 pm

I totally do the mush thing too! In fact, for all my birthdays as I kid I would ask for cake mush, which meant my mom would take my slice of cake and ice cream and mash it up for me with a fork. The amazing thing is that while I would be full after a slice of cake and a scoop of ice cream, I can eat double that when in mush form. Yum!
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Jen — June 12, 2008 at 3:40 pm

That’s awesome Katie – glad I’m not the only cake mush eater out there!
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Teanna DiMicco — April 21, 2009 at 2:38 pm

This is insane! And by insane, I mean TOTALLY AWESOME! COME ON!!!! I am SO making these!
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Hillary — April 21, 2009 at 4:32 pm

What an awesome idea! How do you store them – does the cake part get too cold if you freeze them?

Hillary
Chew on That
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Cathy - wheresmydamnanswer — April 21, 2009 at 4:47 pm

These are so incredible – Love them!!!
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Jen — April 21, 2009 at 5:01 pm

Hillary – I kept them in the freezer. It did make the cake part cold, but I’m personally a fan of cold/frozen cake anyways.