Basic Cream Cheese Frosting

In general I'm not a big frosting fan. Sometimes they tend to be too sweet. It just takes over the whole cupcake or cake and that's just not good eats. Yet there is one frosting that seems to overcome the sweet factor and that is Cream Cheese Frosting. It is the most delicious frosting ever invented, I love it's inventor who ever it is!

Cream Cheese frosting is a wonderful savory and sweet balance. It has the perfect amount of sweet with a whisper of tang! It's fabulous and super easy to make. There is only one main rule for frosting, your ingredients MUST be room temperature. I don't mean to scream at you just emphasis the importance of this. When I first started baking, I disregarded that step and boy did that frosting stuck! I couldn't blend it together, there where lumps, grainy and one hot mess! So please don't make my mistake, bring your cream cheese and butter to room temperature.

Now this recipe is not only super simple but very versatile! You can add different flavors like lime, lemon, orange, pineapple and so on to make fruit frosting, you can add melted chocolate or nutella, you can add fresh fruit and make it a filling for a cake. You can simply eat it with a spoon, which is what I find myself doing with the leftover. It's so good!!!!

You need to try it!

Buen Provecho!

ROOM TEMPERATURE 1 stick of butter and 8 oz cream cheese, blend with a hand mixer

add vanilla extract and blend

add powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time until desired sweetness

Frost time!

Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz Cream Cheese, room temperature
1 stick of butter, room temperature
1/2- 1 cup of powdered sugar - or to your desired sweetness
1 tsp vanilla extract

Road Map:

1. Add cream cheese and butter into a medium bowl. With a hand mixer, mix together until blended. Add vanilla and blend. Add and blend powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time until desired sweetness. Ready to frost!