Strawberry–Cream Cheese Frosting

Name: Strawberry–Cream Cheese Frosting
Yield: Makes 3 cups (enough for 12 cupcakes or 1 sheet cake)
Ingredients: 1½ cups (¾ ounces; 21 grams), freeze-dried strawberries; 12 ounces (340 grams), cream cheese, softened; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 6 pieces and softened; 1½ tablespoons, sour cream; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; ⅛ teaspoon, table salt; 1½ cups (6 ounces; 170 grams), confectioners’ (powdered) sugar

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For Kids & Families

Desserts or Baked Goods

Freeze-dried strawberries give this supersimple cream cheese frosting loads of strawberry flavor and a pretty pink color.

SERVESMakes 3 cups (enough for 12 cupcakes or 1 sheet cake)

TIME20 minutes

What Kids Are Saying"The frosting was really cool because the strawberry dust adds color and strawberry flavor!" —Grayson, recipe tester, age 9

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The secret ingredient to this berry delicious cream cheese frosting is freeze-dried strawberries. Since they were never heated before they were dried, they contain loads of fresh strawberry flavor, but won’t add too much liquid to the frost...

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