Best Cream Cheese Frosting

This simple, 6-ingredient cream cheese frosting is easy to make and pipe onto your favorite baked goods. You’ll never want (or need!) another frosting recipe.

This easy, creamy frosting is absolutely delicious on carrot cake, pumpkin or banana muffins, Sugar Cookies, and Red Velvet Cake.

Classic Cream Cheese Frosting

If heaven had a flavor, this would be it! This is the best cream cheese frosting recipe that is sweet, fluffy, creamy, and delicious. Add it to the top of your favorite layered cake, cookies, and cupcakes, or whip up a batch and dive in with a spoon!

This cream cheese frosting recipe has replaced all my other sugar cookie frosting recipes because it is the easiest and tastiest. I am all about keeping things simple around here and with frosting this good, there is no need for all the fancy, time-consuming ones I’ve made over the years!

My sister-in-law made these easy sugar cookies a couple of years ago and this cream cheese frosting was what she topped them with. She gave me permission to share this easy recipe, but only if I called it “Punch-You-In-The-Face Frosting”- ’cause it is so good, you won’t know what hit you! Now grab your kitchen mixer and get started!

How To Make Cream Cheese Frosting

INGREDIENTS –

• cream cheese
• butter
• vanilla extract
• pinch of salt
• powdered sugar
• milk.
• food coloring, optional

DIRECTIONS –

Place all the simple ingredients into the bowl of your stand mixer on medium speed and blend until it becomes nice and smooth. If you prefer to use a hand mixer and mixing bowl, that works too!

Use a rubber spatula to scrape the frosting down the sides of the bowl to make sure everything is well blended.

Frosting Tips

• Use A Brick – Be sure to use a brick of cream cheese when you make this frosting recipe. If you use a cream cheese spread, the frosting will turn out runny and nobody wants that.
• Keep It Soft – You’ll want to make sure both the cream cheese and butter are soft before you start mixing everything together. If it’s too hard, you’ll most likely find little clumps in the frosting.
• Flavor It – I love adding a little flavor to this frosting when I’m baking around different holidays or seasons. You can add lemon extract, pumpkin spice, peppermint extract, or any other flavor you want to this recipe. I usually start off with about 3/4 of a teaspoon and then add more if needed.

Storing the Frosting

• Refrigerate – Store any unused frosting in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 week. I like to press a piece of wax paper on the frosting to make sure no air will get in.
• Room Temperature – Be sure to leave out the frosting to soften a bit before you use it, otherwise, it may be a little difficult to spread on your delicious desserts.

Best Recipes To Use Cream Cheese Frosting

Here are some of our favorite recipes to make with this cream cheese frosting.

• Best Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
• The Best Lemon Cupcakes
• Easy Strawberry Cake Recipe
• Carrot Cake Cupcakes Recipe
• Easy Jello Cookies
• 3 Ingredient Cake Mix Cookies

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Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Servings: 8 servings

This simple, 6-ingredient cream cheese frosting is easy to make and pipe onto your favorite baked goods. You’ll never want (or need!) another frosting recipe.

Prep Time:10 mins

Total Time:10 mins

Ingredients

• 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 tsp. of vanilla
• dash of salt
• 3-4 cups of powdered sugar
• 2-3 tbsp. of milk
• food coloring, optional

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl.
• Beat with an electric mixer until well blended and smooth.

Nutrition

Serving: 2 tablespoons · Calories: 329 kcal · Carbohydrates: 47 g · Protein: 2 g · Fat: 16 g · Saturated Fat: 9 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 4 g · Trans Fat: 0.2 g · Cholesterol: 44 mg · Sodium: 137 mg · Potassium: 46 mg · Sugar: 45 g · Vitamin A: 564 IU · Calcium: 34 mg · Iron: 0.1 mg

Other Notes

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: baked goods, cakes, cinnamon rolls, cupcakes, desserts, frosting