Cream Cheese American Buttercream

Name: Cream Cheese American Buttercream
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1 cup (225 g) block-style cream cheese, cold; 1 stick (113 g) unsalted butter, cold; 3½ cups (425 g) powdered sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; ¼ teaspoon salt

Cream cheese American buttercream is a simple type of frosting made using cream cheese, and this recipe is adapted from Sugarologie.

10 min

Ingredients

1 cup (225 g) block-style cream cheese, cold
1 stick (113 g) unsalted butter, cold
3½ cups (425 g) powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon salt

Steps

Put the cream cheese in a bowl and mix just enough to smooth out lumps. Do not overmix. Set aside.
Cream the butter in another bowl until smooth and creamy.
Beat in powdered sugar in 3–4 batches. It may look crumbly at first, but don't worry—it will come together into a ball, like a dough.
Beat in salt and vanilla.
Add all of cream cheese and mix in until smooth. Do not overmix, as it can make the frosting runny.

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Adapted from “Cream Cheese American Buttercream” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.