Small Batch Cream Cheese Frosting
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 1 dozen cupcakes
Ingredients
  • 8 ounces cream cheese
  • ½ cup unsalted butter
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt
  • Optional: several raspberries for pink speckles
Instructions
  1. Bake your favorite chocolate cupcake recipe (or carrot cake, red velvet, etc!) and set out the cream cheese and butter to come to room temperature in the meantime.
  2. Once soft, mix together the cream cheese and butter using a wooden spoon and a whisk to attack any clumps of butter that may remain as you want a very smooth mixture.
  3. To the cream cheese and butter, begin stirring in the powdered sugar ½ cup at a time until all 2 cups have been added.
  4. Once smooth again (about 5 minutes of stirring), add in the vanilla extract and a pinch of salt.
  5. Chill the frosting for 2 hours (and up to overnight) before piping onto cupcakes if you want the piping pattern to hold. Pipe the cupcakes and store in the fridge if you aren't serving them within an hour or two, so that the frosting doesn't begin to soften too much.
Recipe by Uproot Kitchen at https://uprootkitchen.com/2014/04/14/cream-cheese-frosting-cupcake-decorations/