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Red Velvet cake frosted with Donna Joy's Cream Cheese Frosting

Best Ever Cream Cheese Frosting

Posted on March 22, 2020February 11, 2025 by Donna Joy
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Learn how to make the best ever Cream Cheese frosting. A perfect balance of tangy and sweet. Perfect finish for carrot, red velvet, spice, and pumpkin cakes, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls and much more.

Donna Joy’s Cream Cheese frosting recipe

A fast frosting to make with only four ingredients. Cream Cheese and butter is brought to room temperature is blended, vanilla extract adds a delightful favor, and the confectioner sugar adds the sweetness.

Perfect frosting for your Carrot cakes
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Donna Joy's Award-Winning Carrot Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting

Prepare the frosting the day ahead of frosting a cake. This tip will ease frosting the cake, whipping up the frosting allows you to apply a good coat of frosting to the cake. Store the frosting in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Cream cheese frosting freezes well in an airtight container.

Red Velvet cake frosted with Donna Joy's Cream Cheese Frosting

Perfect frosting for your Red Velvet cakes. If is a gluten free frosting.

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Recipe by Pastry Chef Cake Artist ~ Donna Joy ~ Sedona Sweet ArtsCourse: DessertDifficulty: Easy
Servings

12

servings
Prep time

15

minutes

Donna Joy’s classic cream cheese frosting. A perfect balance of tangy and sweet. Perfect finish for carrot, red velvet, spice, and pumpkin cakes, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls and much more. www.DonnaJoys.com

Ingredients

  • 1 pound Cream Cheese (room temperature)

  • 1 pound Butter (room temperature)

  • 4.5 teaspoons Vanilla

  • 5 1/3 cups Powdered sugar

Directions

  • Using a mixer, blend cream cheese until soft. Slowly add butter in 4 mixing well between each addition. Using a spatula mix sides and base, then mix. The butter and cream cheese should be soft.
  • Add vanilla and blend.
  • Slowly add powdered sugar one cup at a time.
  • Mix well until light and fluffy.

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  • Tips: Prepare the frosting the day ahead of frosting a cake. This tip will ease frosting the cake, whipping up the frosting allows you to apply a good coat of frosting to the cake. Store the frosting in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Cream cheese frosting freezes well in an airtight container.
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