Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

Name: Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1 13x9 cake
Ingredients: 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened; 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (would also be good with crunchy peanut butter); 1 teaspoon vanilla; 3 -3 1/2 cups powdered sugar; 2 tablespoons milk or 2 tablespoons cream

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Submitted by Anita Harris

"YUM!!! This is an excellent frosting which incorporates two of my favorite things...peanut butter and cream cheese and it's also easy to make. I used it to frost a banana cake I made (recipe #50349-which is an excellent cake recipe) and it was soooo good! I found this recipe on another recipe website. I'm thinking it would also be great on chocolate cake."

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photo by Aramelle One Wheele

Ready In:: 10mins
Ingredients:: 5
Yields:: 1 13x9 cake

ingredients

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
¹⁄₂ cup creamy peanut butter (would also be good with crunchy peanut butter)
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 - 3 ¹⁄₂ cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk or 2 tablespoons cream

directions

Mix together cream cheese and peanut butter with mixer until smooth.
Add vanilla and powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, along with the milk or cream and beat until spreading consistency.
(I used only 3 cups powdered sugar and 2-3 tbsp. of milk).
Spread on cooled cake.

Questions & Replies

Is this recipe gluten free?

Jordan C.

Reviews

I liked this recipe a lot. It has a very nice texture. I had interesting results subbing maple syrup for the vanilla (realized I was out too late). It ended up tasting just like Bit-O-Honey candy.

Tricia Foley
Very good, but I also doubled the peanut butter. Next time, I will also cut the sugar back. It seems, even though I doubled the PB, it totally dominated the taste.

Richard S.
Very good recipe! I will for sure make it again - awesome on top of Hershey's perfect chocolate cake.

jeana22
This is DELICIOUS! I subbed 1/3 cup of Hershey's Cocoa unsweetened for the sugar and it was still plenty sweet. Chocolate and Peanut Butter? WIN! And then I put it on "The Best Ever Banana Cake" (#67256) and made it EVEN BETTER than the best. :)

brynae
Absolutely delicious!! Very smooth and perfect on chocolate cupcakes! We used only 2 tbsp of milk and 3 cups of powdered sugar. I would highly recommend making this!

shae0420

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Tweaks

I added 2 Tablespoons of cocoa powder and a little heavy cream until I got the texture I needed.

Mikaela S.
Doubled peanut butter

Richard S.
I doubled the peanut butter and probably only used 2 cups of powdered sugar and less milk

Sarah R.