Insanely Delicious Cream Cheese Frosting
Insanely delicious cream cheese frosting is an easy and budget-friendly recipe that is the perfect complement for cake, cupcakes, pound cake, or even brownies. This is an easy cream cheese frosting that only requires a few simple ingredients, including powdered sugar, butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and milk, for a rich and decadent treat to top your desserts.
The Best Cream Cheese Frosting
If you’re looking for some insanely delicious cream cheese frosting, look no more. This is the stuff.
We spent summers in Tennessee on my grandparent’s farm, and we were lucky enough to be blessed with a grandma that loved to cook. She made angel food cake with cream cheese frosting. Typically, she made us pies because, who wouldn’t want pie after every meal–including breakfast? Ok, so she didn’t let us have pie after breakfast, but we tried.
Oh, and when she would get the pie out to cut a slice after dinner, it would mysteriously be half-eaten. Weird, I know.
So, back to the frosting.
When the church would have a potluck, or she would get a hankering to make us cake, she ended up making angel food cake with cream cheese frosting.
O-M-Gosh. Seriously.
And the great thing about this frosting is that you can use it for a lot of different types of cakes. I’ve used it on pound cake, and it turned out amazing.
You can also add cocoa powder or other ingredients to create chocolate cream cheese frosting or something else.
It’s a pretty versatile frosting recipe and comes out delicious every time.
Options For Frosting
- Carrot cake cupcakes
- Your favorite cupcakes
- Pound cake
- Angel food cake
- Sheet cake
- Sugar cookies
- In between two graham crackers
- So much more
Frosting Thickness
The recipe creates a spreadable cream cheese frosting. But, there are occasions that you might want the recipe to be a little thinner or a little thicker. When you add additional milk or powdered sugar, always start out with a small amount and work your way up from there to get the right consistency.
- For thicker frosting, add more powdered sugar.
- For thinner frosting, add more milk.
If you have leftover frosting, keep it in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
TIP: I used the box of regular cream cheese because it will come out thicker than if you use whipped. You can use low-fat cream cheese for the recipe if you’d like to. Most brands of cream cheese will work great for the recipe. It’s super easy and takes just a few minutes to make.
Add some chocolate frosting to your rotation and top an angel food cake.
More Delicious Frosting Recipes
- Once you see how to make chocolate frosting from scratch, you’ll never go back to the canned stuff again.
- This smooth and classic Hershey’s chocolate frosting recipe is just what your favorite cakes have been missing.
- Light and airy with a creamy finish, how to make the best whipped cream cheese frosting is easier than you might think.
Insanely Delicious Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- 2-1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons milk more if needed
- 1 stick butter softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Mix the butter and cream cheese in a medium-sized bowl.
- Add the milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar and mix until well blended.
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Looks delicious! I love a great cream cheese frosting! Thanks for linking up at Friday Frenzy Link Party!
Hi Kelly! Thanks! I could eat it right out of the bowl. Don’t even need any cake. Ha ha! Thanks for the opportunity to link up. 🙂 Hope you’re having a great Sunday!
I love cream cheese icing so yummy my favorite and now I will use this recipe to make my own
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Hi Angie! Glad you’re going to be able to use it! Love your blog. Your Elvis Presley Burger looks really good!
Hi Angie! Glad you’re going to be able to use it! Love your blog. Your Elvis Presley Burger looks really good!
Looks so good!
Thanks Marlena! It’s fun to make. 🙂
Can this be piped?
Hi Joni! If it were at room temperature, it’s possible. But, it’s a fairly thick frosting, so it might be tough to pipe it.
Does this have to be refrigerated?
It’s probably ok if you don’t, but I always refrigerate things with dairy in them. I am a little overly panicky about things like that. Whenever we buy a cake from the store with buttercream frosting, we refrigerate it.
Just made this today for a red velvet cake at it is amazingly smooth and creamy. The taste is pretty scrumptious too.
Perfect !!!!!
“Do not change a thing.”
::Thank you for sharing it
This was a great recipe, I enhanced it and added crushed fresh strawberries and put it on Angle Food cake. It was fabulous!
Preferably over other recipes since less sugar than many, will save and make again.
This recipe is absolutely delicious and a true breeze to whip up!! I LOVE it, well rather my sweet tooth loves it!! Although this is jus a better version of buttercream, we don’t give a rats patoot cause this one here is supreme, you hear me buttercream!!
A simple but absolutely delicious frosting. I made this for a birthday cake and it was a huge hit with everyone.
Icing is good and easy, but I don’t think it makes 3 cups or enough to ice a 9×13 cake top and sides. Going to have to make a half more to have enough.