This Cream Cheese Icing is smooth, creamy and perfectly balanced without being overly sweet. It’s the kind of icing that works beautifully on cakes, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls and loaf cakes, adding richness and flavour without overpowering the bake itself. Simple to make with just a few ingredients, this recipe creates a soft, spreadable icing that’s reliable, versatile and well worth keeping on hand.
Easy Cream Cheese Icing - Smooth, Balanced & Delicious
Easy Cream Cheese Icing - Smooth, Balanced & Delicious
Ashley's Place
1 8 inch cake
10 minutes
American
Baking
Cream Cheese Icing is a delicious icing that you can use on carrot cake, pound cakes, cinnamon scrolls and is delicious when you want to ice a cake but maybe want one to add a bit of tanginess and to cut through the sweetness of a dish
Ingredients
250g of Icing Sugar (confectioners sugar)
55g Room Temp Unsalted Butter
110g Firm Cream Cheese (*see note 1)
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
Directions
Take your butter out of the fridge and let it come to room temperature you want it to be softer to incorporate with your cream cheese easily
Once the butter is room temp chop into small pieces and add it into your stand mixer with your Cream Cheese, we use the Philadelphia Original Block Cream Cheese you need the firmer block for this not the spreadable kind
Mix on medium – high speed for 1 minute, scrape down the bowl to make sure it is all mixing properly and mix again for another 1 minute on med-high speed.
Add your Icing Sugar to your bowl in 3 parts so you don’t get an icing explosion & it incorporates properly, mix for about 30 seconds after each addition on medium before adding the next portion of icing
Once the 3 parts are added, add your vanilla essence in & mix on medium-high speed for 1 minute, stop to scrape down the sides and base of the bowl again to make sure all the ingredients get mixed properly and nothing is stuck to the sides then mix again for 1 more minute on that medium/high speed or until all ingredients are incorporated
Cream cheese icing is slighter thinner or runnier than buttercream icing which is a lot thicker and fluffy. But you can still pipe it to get the effect if you like
Because this has cream cheese you need to keep it in the fridge, if you ice a cake etc once you have finished eating it etc it you can pop it into the fridge