Cream cheese frosting

Name: Cream cheese frosting
Yield: Makes 350 g (12½ oz)
Ingredients: 55 g (2 oz) cream cheese, at room temperature; 55 g (2 oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 225 g (8 oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar; 1 vanilla bean, split lengthways and seeds scraped; 1 tablespoon full-cream (whole) milk; ¼ teaspoon salt

Preparation info

Makes
350 g

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chefs Eat Breakfast Too

By Darren Purchese

Published 2019

About

Ingredients

225 g (8 oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar
55 g (2

cheese
Breakfast
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Put all the ingredients in the bowl of a freestanding electric mixer and attach the paddle. Mix on low speed to combine, then gradually increase the speed to medium and mix for 1 minute. Stop the mixer and use a spatula to scrape down the side and bottom of the bowl. Mix again until the frosting is free of lumps.
Transfer to a piping (icing) bag and use to pipe