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Ingredients
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- Cream Cheese Frosting
- This frosting is nicely balanced between tangy and sweet, and spreads beautifully. It's the perfect complement for gingerbread, carrot cake, or pumpkin cake. A little chopped candied ginger on top dresses things up nicely.
- Our guarantee: This is a spreadable frosting, quick to make and well balanced between sweet and tangy.
- Volume
- Ounces
- Grams
- 3 ounces butter, at room temperature
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 14 ounces to 1 pound confectioners' sugar
- 4 ounces chopped nuts (optional)
- 3 ounces minced candied ginger (optional)
- 1 to 2 ounces milk, to make frosting spreadable
- Recipe summary
- 15 mins.
- Baking time:
- Total time:
- 15 mins.
- Yield:
- 3 cups
Preparation
Step 1
Directions
1) Combine the butter, the cream cheese and the vanilla in a medium sized bowl, and beat them together until they are light and fluffy.
2) Add the sugar gradually, beating well.
3) Stir in the nuts and/or ginger if desired.
4) Add the milk a little at a time, until the frosting is a spreadable consistency.