Vanilla Cream Cheese Buttercream Icing 🤩. I'm always in search of a good balanced icing recipe, but I love the flavor of cream cheese icing. So I combined two of my favorite recipes my moms cream cheese frosting and a buttercream recipe. Beat the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and salt with an electric mixer on low until combined.

Add vanilla and cream cheese and continue beating until smooth. Gradually add the powdered sugar with the mixer on low speed. With the mixer on low, slowly add sugar, scraping down the sides of the bowls as necessary. You can have Vanilla Cream Cheese Buttercream Icing 🤩 using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Vanilla Cream Cheese Buttercream Icing 🤩

You need 2 1/2 cups of confectioners sugar.
You need 2 tablespoons of vanilla or less to taste.
You need 1 stick of unsalted butter room temp.
It's of I box cream cheese.
Prepare 2 of tablesspoon half and half.

Add vanilla and increase mixer speed to medium. Cream cheese frosting is a great alternative to a traditional buttercream frosting. The addition of cream cheese and reduced amount of sugar make it less sweet with a tangy flavor. It pairs perfectly with just about any cake flavor!

Vanilla Cream Cheese Buttercream Icing 🤩 step by step

Cream butter.
Add cream cheese and whip until blended.
Add vanilla and mix well.
Slowly incorporate sugar 1/2 cup at a time,stop when all sugar is blended..
Scrape side and turn mixer to whip to create light texture or leave it as is..
Make sure your cake is completely cool and frost!.

Add this frosting to your next carrot cake, red velvet cake, lemon cake, chocolate cake, or vanilla cake. Cut the cold cream cheese into pieces and add to the butter, beating at low to medium speed until incorporated. If you are using a hand mixer you may need to soften the cream cheese a bit more. Gradually add the powdered sugar beating on low speed until blended. Both buttercream and cream cheese frosting contain powdered sugar, butter, and vanilla.