Recipe and source notes

Cream Cheese Frosting

8 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 8 ounces cream cheese
  • 1 cup confectioners sugar
  • 1/2 stick butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Make it step by step

  1. Leave the cream cheese and butter out to soften.
  2. Beat the cream cheese and butter together, add the vanilla extract then slowly beat in the confectioner's sugar until fully blended. Voila! perfect icing.

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Recipe source

Adapted from Foodista by Julianna Fletcher, under CC BY 3.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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