Ian Young's Cream Cheese Frosting

Rating: 3 stars

83 Ratings
4 Reviews

Top Sweet Zucchini Cupcakes with this frosting, submitted by reader Ian Young of Oakland, California.

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Ingredients

4 tablespoons room-temperature unsalted butter
4 ounces room-temperature bar cream cheese
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

Step 1

In a medium bowl, with an electric mixer, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla extract; beat until light and fluffy. Refrigerate until ready to use, up to 1 day.

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Reviews (4)

83 Ratings

5 star values: 6
4 star values: 14
3 star values: 42
2 star values: 16
1 star values: 5

Anonymous

10/19/2012

I altered the recipe due to other's comments: 8oz cream cheese, 4oz butter, 1 cup confectioners sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract. Tastes fantastic. There IS an issue with frosting being too thin, as someone else mentioned, (because of room temp cream cheese and butter), so either refrigerate until cold and if necessary, beat again... Or don't let butter/cream cheese get to room temp in the first place (as per my chef husband)!!

MS12371874

07/10/2011

This recipe calls for way too much sugar and not enough cream cheese. I ended up taking some of the mix out and adding more cream cheese. I would suggest using 6 ounces of cream cheese and 1 1/2 cup sugar( maybe even less)

Anonymous

04/10/2011

I didn't really like this... It wasn't that dense and the taste was a bit too buttery even though there's cream cheese in it...

MS10152553

02/14/2011

I made this as a frosting for some chocolate cupcakes and it was delicious!

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