Cream Cheese Icing without Butter Recipe is a smooth, luxe topping perfect for frosting cinnamon rolls, cupcakes, red velvet cake, and banana bread.
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This cream cheese frosting is easy and just four ingredients: cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and kosher salt or sea salt.
This icing is similar to Easy Cookie Frosting But maybe you might be in a mood for a fluffy chocolate buttercream?
But, be sure with this no-butter frosting to use full fat cream cheese.
Without the butter you're going to want all the fat.
Also, when you make this cream cheese frosting without butter, you want to be sure that you're using room temperature cream cheese.
You can put the cream cheese on top of the refrigerator to help it warm up faster.
If you use cream creese straight from the fridge, it can take a while to beat it enough to fully incorporate with powdered sugar to create the icing.
Ingredients
- Cream cheese
- Powdered sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Sea Salt
See recipe card for ingredient amounts.
How to Make Cream Cheese Icing without Butter Recipe
Add vanilla extract, salt and powdered sugar.
Start mixer slowly once you've added the powdered sugar so that the sugar doesn't fly everywhere.
Which brand of cream cheese is best?
Storage
Cover and refrigerate any unused icing for three to five days.
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Recipe
Cream cheese Icing no Butter recipe
Cream cheees icing without butter is the perfect drizzly topping for your cinnamon rolls, muffins and banana bread.
Ingredients
- 8-ounce full fat cream cheese, room temperature
- 4 cups confectioner's sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanila extract
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer in a large mixing bowl until fluffy, about 5 minutes
- Add vanila extract, salt and powdered sugar to bowl.
- Continue beating until the sugar has thoroughly incorporated into the cream cheese.
Notes
Make sure the cream cheese is at room temperature otherwise it wil take a lot longer for an icing to form.
Nutrition Information
Yield 12 Serving Size 1Amount Per Serving Calories 209Total Fat 7gSaturated Fat 4gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 2gCholesterol 19mgSodium 148mgCarbohydrates 38gFiber 0gSugar 37gProtein 1g
Nutrition information is an estimate because I am not a registered dietician.
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