Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting

from sweetkitchencravings.com
Dessert
10 min

This tangy, rich, and silky smooth cream cheese frosting is the perfect addition to cupcakes, carrot cake, cinnamon rolls and so much more!

Ingredients

  • 1block (8-ounce or 227g) cream cheese (at room temperature)
  • ½ cupunsalted butter (at room temperature)
  • 2 ½ cupspowdered sugar (sifted)
  • 1 teaspoonvanilla extract
  • salt

Directions

  1. 1

    Beat the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the bowl with a rubber spatula.

  2. 2

    Add half the powdered sugar along with the vanilla, and salt. Mix until mostly incorporated then add the remaining half of powdered sugar. Scrape the bowl again then mix until the frosting is combined and smooth.