Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

This delicious homemade cream cheese-frosting recipe is wonderfully creamy, super-easy to make, and spreads smoothly. It’s perfect for any carrot cake, pumpkin bread, or cookies. This cream cheese frosting provides a genuine cream cheese taste, very similar to a cheesecake flavor. It’s not very sweet, which enhances the cheese flavor; but if preferred, you can add more sugar or flavors, (see final note below). It takes only 15 minutes to make, and the result is worth it. You will never buy any cheese frosting from the counter again.Make sure that the butter and cream cheese are softened before starting to work.Check out this recipe and give it a try!

• 2 (8 oz.) packages cream cheese, softened
• ½ cup butter, softened
• 2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

1. Combine the cream cheese and the butter using an electric hand mixer, until smooth.
2. Add in the vanilla extract, using thelow speed on the hand mixer.
3. Stir in the confectioners’ sugar, gradually.
4. if you prefer your cream cheese frosting sweeter, add 1/2 cup (or more) of sifted confectioners sugar.

Notes:

• For chocolate frosting, add 1/4 to 1/2 cup pure cocoa powder, depending how rich you want it. Chocolate mix is not recommended.
• You can also add extra vanilla extract, for a more intense flavor.
• For a cinnamon touch, add 1 ½ tsp. ground cinnamon.
• For a lemon touch, add the zest and juice of one lemon, and skip the vanilla.
• For an Irish cream touch, add 2 tsp. any Irish cream you have in your bar.
• For a coffee touch, add 1 tsp. any coffee liquor.
• For a ginger touch, add 1 tsp. ground ginger.