Cream Cheese Icing

"This goes great on carrot cake."
 
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Ready In:
10mins
Ingredients:
4
Serves:
8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Soften cheese and butter.
  • Beat well.
  • Add sugar and vanilla.
  • Beat again.
  • Spread on cooled cake.

Questions & Replies

  1. will this adequately cover a 9x13 inch sheet cake?
     
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Reviews

  1. Delicious! I frosted #2169 Banana Chiffon Cake with this icing. Thanks for posting this recipe, I can't wait to try it on other cakes in the future.
     
  2. This is the BEST recipe for cream cheese icing!!! Absolutely to die for when spread on pumpkin or carrot cake. A tried-and-true keeper. Thanks for sharing, bert:) ~Manda
     
  3. I have found the cream chesse Icing of my dreams. Bert this is so very good and easy to mix. Easy to spead on the cake and all. I used it on Pineapple Cake. I will keep this one .
     
  4. Really good icing. I used it to frost cinnamon buns. Turned out great. Thanks.
     
  5. I used this recipe for icing a Pineapple Dream Cake. In order to get it to the right consistency, I had to add a LOT more than 2 1/2 cups of confectioners sugar. If I'd used icing sugar, perhaps I wouldn't have needed that much sugar.
     
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Tweaks

  1. This icing never stiffened up for me but I don't want to rate it because it might have been my fault. I used Neufchatel cheese instead of full fat cream cheese so maybe that made a difference. I even put it in the fridge overnight hoping it would stiffen up but it didn't. Needless to say, the carrot cupcakes we frosted were pretty messy but still yummy!
     

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