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Cream Cheese Frosting
Essential Technique
- Makes about
750 g
, enough to fill and cover a 2-layer 23cm cake - Difficulty
Easy
Published 2010
Traditional with carrot cake or another spiced layer cake, cream cheese frosting is also perfect on cupcakes. Both the cream cheese and butter should be only slightly softened; let your mixer complete the softening while beating in some air to lighten the frosting and give it a more appealing texture.
Ingredients
340 g 85 g 340
Method
- Put the butter and cream cheese in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat with the paddle on medium speed until completely mixed, about 3 minutes, stopping and scraping the bowl and beater several times.
- Decrease the speed to low and add the icing sugar one third at a time, beating until absorbed after each addition. After the last addition, the frosting might
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