Heavenly, Rich Cream Cheese Frosting : : Cheapskate's Handbook

Heavenly, Rich Cream Cheese Frosting

June 10th 2010 Posted at Recipes
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This week was my boyfriend’s birthday and he made a special request that I bake him a carrot cake. Unfortunately, my baking skills are not yet up to par with my other cooking talents (with the exception of pie making, I’m quite good at baking pies), so the cake was a bit strange.

On the bright side, the entire experiment wasn’t a complete waste, because I happened to make some of the best cream cheese frosting I’ve ever had the pleasure of enjoying and I’m happy to get to share the recipe with you here:

2 sticks unsalted butter
2 tubs 8 ounce cream cheese
Seeds from one vanilla bean
1 tsp vanilla extract
5 cups powdered sugar

Let your ingredients sit out until they are close to room temperature. Use a mixer to combine the vanilla, butter and cream cheese. When the ingredients are well-blended, slowly add in the powdered sugar a little at a time.

Refrigerate for a few hours to let it set completely (and to let your cake cool if you made them at the same time), then frost.

To save you the terrible image of my carrot cake disaster, this image is from maggi.m, although I am fairly certain my frosting is better than the one shown.

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