Buttercream cheese frosting

Buttercream cheese frosting. Smooth and soft tangy flavored cream cheese frosting prepared by using cream cheese, softened butter, some whipping cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla essence. Buttercream cheese goes great on Carrot Cake, Red Velvet Cake, and just about any other flavor cupcakes or cakes.

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Few things to remember before starting with this recipe and are that the butter and the cream cheese should be at room temperature, the texture should be medium soft for easy mixing. And also if using salted butter then avoid adding extra salt in the recipe.

Make sure that you are using full-fat brick cream cheese, not low fat or spreadable cream cheese (which is usually sold in a tub rather than in brick form)

Ingredients required to prepare Buttercream cheese frosting are

• 2/3 cup Butter (softened butter)
• 1 cup of Cream cheese
• 3/4 cup of powdered sugar
• 3 teaspoons of vanilla sugar
• 6 teaspoons of whipping cream

Note: Once butter cream cheese is ready , refrigerate until used.

Directions to prepare butter cream cheese frosting 🧁

Beat softened butter 🧈 2/3 cup for about a minute then add powdered sugar 3/4 cup and vanilla sugar and beat to mix. Add sugar into portions and mix. Mix around 2 to 4 minutes and mix until feels light and smooth. To adjust the consistency add whipping cream 6 teaspoons into it slowly and beat to mix. Do not over mix it. Also, refrigerate until used.

Adjust the consistency of the frosting as required by adding a little less or little more whipping cream.

Step by step method to prepare buttercream cheese frosting along with images below

We need 2/3 cup (one stick I.e 4 oz) of butter which should be at room temperature for easy mixing. The texture of the butter should not be too flowy or too hard. It should be soft enough to be easily beaten with the electric hand beater or by just using a simple hand beater.

Transfer the softened butter (unsalted ) into a bowl

Beat for 1 minute

Collect the butter from all the sides and get them at the center then start to beat again. This way it gets lighter and fluffier in texture.

The image shown how smooth and soft it looks like after being beaten for about a minute

Add cream cheese 1 cup

Beat to mix

Add 3/4 cup of powdered sugar

Add sugar in portions and mix

In between also add vanilla sugar 1 pouch which is around 3 teaspoons or you may add vanilla extract 3 teaspoons

Adding rest of the powdered sugar and mixed

Beat 2 to 5 minutes

Pour in 6 teaspoons of whipping cream gradually into it and keep mixing until you see the texture is smooth and stiff peaks. You may also stop beating as soon as you feel the consistency is right for you. There is no exact time for it. It should be beaten enough until smooth, light and fluffy.

Refrigerate until used.

Sample demo for frosting the cup cakes

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