The best frosting recipe | Cream Cheese Frosting

This is the best frosting recipe you will ever try! I created it on my own because I have always found plain buttercream frosting to be too sweet yet cream cheese frosting to not be sweet enough. This recipe is half buttercream and half cream cheese, which gives it the perfect balance of sweetness & tang! It is also a breeze to make! I use this recipe for all my cakes, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, pretty much anything that requires frosting! It is simple to adapt to be chocolate or any flavor! I always get compliments on this frosting, especially on my cinnamon rolls!

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Recipe Tips & Tricks

The amount of milk to use will depend on how thick you want your frosting, for cakes and cinnamon roll frosting, use less milk and it will be thick like a buttercream. For glazes and other thinner frostings, use more milk!

Both the butter and cream cheese should be room temperate to allow them to be whipped properly!

Use the whisk attachment on your stand mixer! This makes a huge difference, the paddle attachment will work, but the whisk does a great job of whipping the frosting, adding in the most air which is what gives it the light texture.

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The best frosting recipe

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

This frosting recipe is universal! It can be used for brownies, cupcakes, cookies, cinnamon rolls, cakes, you name it! It also provides a great foundation recipe that can be adapted and added-too!

Equipment

• Stand Mixer

Ingredients

• 1 8 oz package of cream cheese (room temperature)
• ½ cup butter (room temperature)
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 2 tbs vanilla
• 3-6 Tbs milk (depending on how thick you like your frosting)

Instructions 

• Cream the butter and cream cheese in a stand mixer with a whisk attachment for 3-5 minutes
• Add the powdered sugar, and vanilla and mix. Be careful as to not fling powdered sugar everywhere
• Add the milk in, a tablespoon at a time. One you creachthe thinkness you desire, whip for 3-5 more minutes. (I typically use 3-4 table spoons for cakes, and cinnamon rolls)

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: buttercream, chocolate frosting, frosting

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