Recipe

Professional Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting

by WickedCreations on June 10, 2011 in Desserts, Frosting/Icing

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Recipe Description

This is the best recipe for taste and presentation and it’s easy for decorating, borders, cupcakes, cakes and such! This yields A LOT – so it’s great for sheet cakes with layers!! This works best with a Kitchen Aid mixer – it really makes a difference in outcome of the frosting! If needed, add a little milk or water to thin out but with Kitchen Aid’s help, you really don’t need it. Very stable and can withstand room temp!!

Preparation Instructions

In a large bowl, using your Kitchen Aid mixer, cream together shortening and butter. Stop and scrape down sides, and keep mixing till creamy.

Then add cut-up cream cheese and mix again (on high speed), scraping down sides till fluffy. Add vanilla extract and blend again.

Then, a little at a time add confectioner’s sugar, starting on low speed as to not spray sugar all over. Make sure to scrape down sides of the bowl after each addition. Once it’s all incorporated and mostly blended, increase speed and continue blending. You may add salt if you need to (but only if you used unsalted butter).

Turn on high speed for 15 minutes to make frosting blended, smooth and fluffy. If it’s not thick enough for frosting, you may have to chill frosting after completed.

*If you don’t have salted butter and are using unsalted, you may add salt to recipe, otherwise if you add more salt, the recipe will taste salty.

Ingredients

1 cup Salted Butter, Softened
½ cups Shortening
16 ounces, weight Cream Cheese (softened, Cut-up)
1-½ Tablespoon Clear Vanilla Extract
4 pounds Confectioners Sugar
½ teaspoons Salt* *see Note*

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Reviews

Gail on 6.20.2011

I just made this cream cheese buttercream frosting, and it is absolutely delicious. I frosted some red velvet cupcakes and they came out great. Thank you for the wonderful recipe.

1tiredmama on 6.27.2011

I was a little skeptical because every other frosting recipe I have seen had either milk or some other liquid. This came together beautifully. I quartered the recipe because I didn’t need a ton. Thanks for subitting!

lesley on 7.25.2011

The frosting tasted great and made plenty for a layered cake and cupcakes for my daughter’s birthday party. The only reason I didn’t give it a 5 was it didn’t get as fluffy as your picture showed but that’s probably maker-error! Thanks for sharing such a delicious treat!

beccann.h on 3.24.2012

I am baking my sister’s wedding cake and this is the first recipe I’ve come across that makes enough for a big cake! The method was very easy to follow, and it tasted great–perfectly between a cream cheese icing and a buttercream icing.

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