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 »

12 Responses to “Snickerdoodle Cheesecake Bars”

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Eva @ Eva Bakes — May 29, 2013 at 10:31 am
What a great flavor combination! And now I’m officially hungry.
- beantownbaker — May 29th, 2013 @ 11:45 am
  
  Ha – sorry to make you hungry! We all REALLY enjoyed these. I like snickerdoodles enough, but these were just awesome.
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Jocelyn (Grandbaby Cakes) — May 29, 2013 at 11:37 am
These are so genius! I love snickerdoodles but combined with cheesecake, its even better!
- beantownbaker — May 29th, 2013 @ 11:45 am
  
  You should definitely make these, they’re as delicious as they look!
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tracy {pale yellow} — May 29, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Love the “random” dollops of cookie on top. They look like mini cookies. Snickerdoodles are the best, I love the way you’ve made them shine in this cheesecake!
- beantownbaker — May 29th, 2013 @ 6:45 pm
  
  Ha, I tried to make them random, but I pretty much failed at it 😉
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Sasha (The Procrastobaker) — May 30, 2013 at 3:43 am
I havn’t baked anything sweet for a lonnnggg time now (been living in a campervan and now I have an oven once more been on a bread baking / savoury kick) but Ive been looking for THAT recipe to get me back into sweets. I think this is it! I tried snickerdoodles once and looovvedd them, yours look so so pretty, I cant wait!
- beantownbaker — May 30th, 2013 @ 9:12 am
  
  I think this would be the perfect recipe to get you back into baking sweets!
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Nutmeg Nanny — June 3, 2013 at 9:46 pm

This looks wonderful 🙂 I love snickerdoodles alone, so I imagine this cheesecake tastes heavenly!
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Shannon — June 6, 2013 at 12:17 pm

oh boy, you may have outdone yourself with this one 🙂 sounds like it was the perfect treat for your sister and her husband!!
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Beth — July 14, 2013 at 7:31 am
daughter came over last night and she lovveessss Snicker Doodle so I made this…she took the whole dish home…that is how much she enjoyed it…it tasted just like snickerdoodle ..I love your recipes…keep them coming…
- beantownbaker — July 14th, 2013 @ 4:18 pm
  
  Thanks 🙂 So glad your daughter enjoyed them. My snickerdoodle loving sister sure enjoyed them as well…