Cream Cheese Frosting

Name: Cream Cheese Frosting
Yield: Makes about 1 cup
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 1 cup (4 ounces), confectioners' sugar; 4 ounces, cream cheese, cut into 4 pieces and softened; 3/4 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2006

Cheese

Cakes

For our cream cheese frosting, we made sure to use softened butter and cream cheese so there weren’t any lumps.

SERVESMakes about 1 cup

TIME25 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our cream cheese frosting, we made sure to use softened butter and cream cheese so there weren’t any lumps. After beating confectioners’ sugar with the softened butter until the mixture was light and fluffy, we added 4 ounces of softene...

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