The Best Cream Cheese Frosting

Make the best cream cheese frosting with this easy recipe. This sweet and tangy frosting is perfectly creamy, but pipes like a dream.

I love cream cheese frosting, it’s not as sweet as buttercream but perfectly just creamy and satisfying instead.

How to pipe a creamy frosting:

This frosting tends to be a little hard to pipe because of it’s creaminess.

In order to get the frosting to perfectly hold its shape, simply refrigerate it for 20-30 minutes before piping.

Scoop your frosting into a piping bag fitted with a piping tip, then pop it in the fridge until its a little more stiff.

About Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients

There are just four simple ingredients required to make this cupcake Frosting:

Butter – Use softened, salted butter.

Cream Cheese – You need to use full fat brick cream cheese at room temperature. Do not use spreadable cream cheese, it will results in runny frosting.

Powdered Sugar – Start with 2 cups and go from there. You can add more for a sweeter, thicker frosting.

Vanilla – I recommend using pure vanilla extract but artificial is cool too. We aren’t snobs here.

What to pair with Cream Cheese Icing

Cream cheese frosting pairs with so many yummy desserts, try it out on some of my favourites:

Moist and flavourful, these easy carrot cake cupcakes is a classic recipe because it’s perfectly spiced flavour and fluffy crumb.

This classic Carrot Cake recipe results in a perfectly moist cake topped off with this frosting that will have you asking for seconds!

These red velvet cinnamon rolls are delicious, tender, oh so decadent. Turn a box of red velvet cake mix into this stunning dessert!

These Red Velvet Brownies are out of this world when topped with this delectable frosting.

How to Make the Best Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

1 package (8 oz) Cream cheese, softened
1/4 Cup butter, softened
2 Cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Beat cream cheese and butter together in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy.

Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy.