My Go-To Cream Cheese Frosting

Friday, January 13, 2012

My Go-To Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream cheese frosting makes everything better. This recipe has appears on my blog so many times, I decided it deserves it’s own post. I’ve used it to top cinnamon rolls, Oreo cupcakes, Carrot Cake Cheesecake, and everything in between.

When you’re making cream cheese frosting, make sure you give the cream cheese enough time to come to room temperature. If it’s still cold, the frosting will be clumpy. And no one likes clumpy frosting! I usually set mine out at least 2 hours prior to whipping up the frosting.

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Cream Cheese Frosting

This is my go-to cream cheese frosting. It will make enough frosting for 12 cupcakes and can easily be doubled.

Yield: 1 cup (enough to frost 12 cupcakes)

Ingredients:

4 oz cream cheese at room temp
1/2 stick (4 Tbsp) butter at room temp
1/2 Tbsp vanilla
1 1/2-2 cups powdered sugar

Directions:

Place the cream cheese in the bowl of your mixer. Beat on medium-high until completely smooth, 3-4 minutes. Add the butter and continue to cream until fluffy.

Add vanilla extract. Slowly add powdered sugar (1/4 cup at a time) until desired consistency is reached.

Dessert, Frosting, Go-To Recipes

8 comments »

11 Responses to “Butterscotch, Coconut, and Toffee Cookies”

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sephora coupons in store print — February 11, 2014 at 5:08 pm

Hmm it seems like your blog ate my first
comment (it was super long) so I guess I’ll just sum it up what I had written and
say, I’m thoroughly enjoying your blog. I too am an aspiring blog blogger but I’m still new to everything.

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I’d really appreciate it.
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Ellen — February 11, 2014 at 10:46 pm
They sound awesome! Everything I like–hubby has good taste! You might want to edit–it says chocolate chips and I assume you mean butterscotch chips. Can’t wait to try them. Thanks a lot.
- beantownbaker — February 12th, 2014 @ 12:46 pm
  
  Thanks for the heads up. I have fixed the typo.
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chelsea @ serves two — February 11, 2014 at 11:26 pm
I must admit that in reading this post I turned to my fiance and asked him what his favorite kind of cookie was (we’ve been together 5 1/2 years). His response: peanut butter chocolate chip. You learn something new every day 🙂

I too love butterscotch (and coconut and toffee for that matter!) but it is such an overlooked flavor!
- beantownbaker — February 12th, 2014 @ 12:46 pm
  
  Isn’t that funny?!? Crazy how you can be with someone so long and still be surprised by them!
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Judy Dougherty — February 12, 2014 at 10:17 am
In the recipe you, you say to add chocolate chips(?) and there is no reference to when you add the toffee or the coconut…
- beantownbaker — February 12th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
  
  They go in with the butterscotch chips. I have updated the recipe to reflect this. Sorry about the typo.
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Liz — February 12, 2014 at 1:29 pm

Thank you for the nice recipe.
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Shannon — February 22, 2014 at 1:53 pm

kind of amazing/awesome that there’s still more to discover about him after all these years! 🙂
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Nutmeg Nanny — February 23, 2014 at 10:23 am

Wow, what a combination! These cookies sound heavenly 🙂
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vanillasugarblog — February 25, 2014 at 8:36 pm

Yes yes yes! Butterscotch and coconut together! It works it does.