The perfect cream cheese frosting. Slowly add in powdered sugar, one half cup at a time until smooth, mixing between additions. Use to frost cooled cakes, cupcakes or cookies. Add more powdered sugar as needed until frosting is a thick spreadable consistency.
Combine cream cheese, butter, vanilla and sugar in a food processor and pulse just until smooth and creamy. If the frosting is too stiff, pulse for a few seconds longer. The perfect cream cheese frosting consists of equal parts butter and cream cheese with enough powdered sugar to sweeten both into a whipped but still swirl-able frosting. You can cook The perfect cream cheese frosting using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of The perfect cream cheese frosting
- It's 8 oz of cream cheese.
- It's 1 cup of powdered sugar (confectioners).
- You need 1/2 cup of unsalted butter.
- It's 1 tbsp of vanilla extract.
- It's 32 oz of heavy whipping cream (liquid).
It tastes distinctly tangy like its namesake cream cheese, but without reminding you of a bagel. Mix in the powdered sugar, one cup at a time, beating in between. I have made you the perfect cream cheese frosting. This is to go with me perfect sugar cookies.
The perfect cream cheese frosting instructions
- Leave your butter and cream cheese on room temperature for like 2 hrs before start making your frosting, this will make it easier!!.
- On a bowl soften your cream cheese and butter with a mixer.
- Add vanilla extract and powdered sugar at low speed to avoid flying it all over the kitchen. Once it is well incorporated set aside.
- On a different bowl add your heavy cream and whip it with the mixer until you can move the bowl and the cream will not move from its place and shape.
- Now incorporate the cream cheese mix onto your heavy cream with a spatula on circular moves. Do not stirr or you will flatten your pretty heavy cream down! !.
- Once both mixs are perfectly mixed together it is time to put is back on the fridge for 1 hour. This will make it easier to shape.
And you can make these easy rose cookies! But really cream cheese frosting goes with so many things. Like cupcakes, red velvet cake, maybe this giant cinnamon roll, graham crackers (um, best snack ever btw). I don't think I could ever get sick of cream cheese frosting. Beat softened butter and cream cheese until well blended.