Honey Cream Cheese Frosting (Reduced Sugar)

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We set our sights on developing a perfectly balanced cream cheese frosting that would pair well with our carrot cake, red velvet cupcakes, pumpkin cupcakes, and more.

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SERVES Makes 3 cups

TIME 25 minutes

Sugar 9 grams (down from 15)

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

But cream cheese frostings very often veer into sugar bomb territory, so overly sweet and cloying that the cream cheese tang is lost. We took it down a notch by not only using less sugar than usual, but also replacing the sugar with honey. ...

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