How to make Classic Cream Cheese Icing

Cream cheese frosting has a rich and more grown up taste than other frosting types. The cream cheese adds just enough of a savory taste to keep it from being super sweet. This type of frosting is a good with fall spice recipes such as gingerbread, pumpkin or spice cakes. It can also work as a dip for graham crackers.

Things You'll Need

• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1 stick butter or margarine
• 1 teaspoon vanilla, orange or amaretto
• 4 cups of powdered sugar

Instructions

1. Place the cream cheese and butter in a good mixing bowl. Thoroughly mix them together. Great icing needs to be beaten heavily for a good fluffy texture.

2. Add the vanilla, orange or amaretto after the cream cheese and butter are thoroughly mixed.

3. Add the 4 cups of powdered sugar and start mixing slowly. Don’t mix it too fast or you’ll have a big mess. When the sugar is mixed in well, it is ready to spread on a cake.

Tips & Warnings

• To make a party dip make the cream cheese icing and leave it soft enough to run a cracker through it without breaking the cracker. Stir in mini chocolate chips or nuts, or white chips and dry cranberries, or raspberries and hazelnuts, anything you can think of. Graham cracker or chocolate sticks are great dippers. Even a non-sweetened crispy bread stick is good to offset the sweet.

• This is an easy recipe to double and is nice on a dessert buffet. Just mix it up and leave it.

• Definetly high calorie! But, low fat cream cheeses or Neufchatel are easy to find and substitute.

References

• Food Network: Cream Cheese Frosting