Cream Cheese Frosting that goes well with carrot cake, red velvet cake and much more. Lets learn to make Cream Cheese Frosting with just 4 ingredients. Let us learn Cream Cheese Frosting with step by step pictures and video.
This is a very easy cream cheese frosting recipe that you can make with jsut 4 ingredients.
If you are bored of the usual vanilla buttercream frosting or fresh cream frosting then this one if just right for you. This frosting is sweet and tangy perfect to suit my taste buds.
Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
There are so many cream cheese recipes I've seen but what I understood is if the ratio is not correct the frosting turns out runny. And even worse it when you make 2-3 layered cakes where the cake may slip off because of the runny frosting.
Though the traditional cream cheese frosting calls for 1:3 ratio that is for 1 cup cream cheese it is 3 cups of icing sugar, I somehow feel its too sweet especially for the cream cheese we get in Indian markets. So I used 1:2 ratio and it worked perfectly. Also the cupcakes are already sweet so this is perfect.
First to a mixing bowl add butter, cream cheese beat well in high speed using a electric mixer. Beat until light and fluffy. Add vanilla essence, give a quick beat. Next sieve and add icing sugar. Beat well until creamy and almost stiff peaks form, but be careful do not overbeat.
How to avoid runny frosting?
- Make sure you follow the ingredients measure.
- Also check if your cream cheese has water content, if so drain it completely and then add.
- Cream cheese should be chill but not hard.
- Butter should be softened and should be at room temperature.
- Icing sugar and powdered sugar are different. Icing sugar has cornflour in it so make it perfect for frostings. It gives good stability and structure to your frosting so only icing sugar should be used for this recipe.
- If its still loose you can chill the frosting for few hours which might thicken it a bit.
Variations
- You can use 1:3 ratio also if you are ok with sweetness.
- So it is 1 cup cream cheese ½ cup butter and 3 cups icing sugar.
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I made this cream cheese frosting to use it for my red velvet cupcakes and they tasted delicious. Homemade cupcakes with cream cheese frosting is best , so do try and enjoy!
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Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- ½ cup cream cheese cold but not hard
- ¼ cup butter at room temperature
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 cup icing sugar
Instructions
- Cream cheese frosting:Get all your ingredients ready.
- To a mixing bowl : add cream cheese and butter.
- Beat well in high speed using a electric mixer. Beat until creamy.
- Now after that add vanilla essence.
- Beat once for even mixing.
- Add icing sugar to a sieve and sieve into the cream cheese butter mixture.
- Whisk until stiff peaks form like shown here.
- It should be thick and creamy.
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Notes
- Use good quality cream cheese.
- Use always room temperataure softened butter.
- Make sure cream cheese does not have water content in it. If it has drain water completely or you can even hang it in a cloth for an hour to remove excess water content.
- Sieving icing sugar is must to have a smooth creamy frosting without any lumps.
How to make Cream Cheese Frosting Step by Step
1.Cream cheese frosting: Get all your ingredients ready.
2.To a mixing bowl : add cream cheese and butter.
3.Beat well in high speed using a electric mixer. Beat until creamy.
4.Now after that add vanilla essence.
5.Beat once for even mixing.
6.Add icing sugar to a sieve and sieve into the cream cheese butter mixture.
7.Whisk until stiff peaks form like shown here.
8.It should be thick and creamy.
9.Fill the frosting into the piping bag.
10.Pipe on the cooled cupcakes. Add sprinkles over it.
Yummy cupcakes with cream cheese frosting ready!
Expert Tips
- Use good quality cream cheese.
- Use always room tempertaure softened butter.
- Make sure cream cheese does not have water content in it. If it has drain water completely or you can even hang it in a cloth for an hour to remove excess water content.
- Sieving icing sugar is must to have a smooth creamy frosting without any lumps.
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