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Cream cheese frosting

Name: Cream cheese frosting
Total time: 1 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 9 oz cream cheese; 2 oz softened butter; 1 cup powdered sugar

Cream cheese or white cheese, beaten with powdered sugar and sometimes soft butter, vanilla or lemon, and spread on the cooled cake.

⏱ 1 min

🧀 Dairy 🥬 Vegetarian 🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

1
Whip the cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar into a smooth frosting.
⚙ WhippingBowlHand mixerorStand mixerorWhisk
2
Let the cake cool completely and cover it with the frosting.
Offset spatula
💡Frost only a completely cool cake: on a warm cake the cream cheese frosting melts and runs down the sides.

420calories

4 gprotein

32 gcarbs

32 gfat

● protein 4%● carbs 30%● fat 66%

Per serving (105 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

Cream cheese: 1 cup = 232 g · 342 kcal per 100 g · More about Cream cheese →
Softened butter: 1 cup = 227 g · 717 kcal per 100 g · More about Softened butter →
Powdered sugar: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 120 g · 389 kcal per 100 g · More about Powdered sugar →

🔧 Tools needed (3)

Offset spatula · Also works: Spreading knife (Spreading knife) · Spoon / teaspoon (regular) (Back of a spoon)
Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
Hand mixer or Stand mixer or Whisk · one of them

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⚙️ What you can change

Possible additions: Cream cheese · White cheese · Softened butter · Powdered sugar · Superfine sugar · Heavy cream · Sour cream · Vanilla · Lemon juice · Honey · Garnish on the frosting (Chopped walnuts) · Garnish on the frosting · On the warm pastry (while warm) · Chopped chocolate on the frosting · Chopped nuts on the frosting · Sifted cocoa over everything · Sliced fruit on the frosting · Lemon juice on the fruit · Milk
What gets frosted (the cake, the rolls): the cake

Cream cheese frosting

👨‍🍳 Method

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