Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting

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Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting is a soft, fluffy frosting that's light and airy like whipped cream yet firm and pipeable like cream cheese frosting. It's the perfect complement for carrot cake, red velvet cake, or any dessert you would normally top with cream cheese frosting or stabilized whipped cream.

Prep Time5

Total Time5

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 99kcal

Author: Cara Lanz

Ingredients

8 ounces cream cheese, cold
¾ cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch salt
1 ½ cups heavy cream, cold

Instructions

In a large mixing bowl, whip the cold cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla, and salt at medium speed until smooth.
Slowly add the cold heavy cream, ½ cup at a time, reducing speed as needed to mix it in (without splashing all over the place!), then increasing to medium to medium-high until the mixture thickens to stiff peaks -- the peaks hold their shape without curling over.
Spread or pipe frosting onto cakes, cupcakes, or cookies. Refrigerate baked goods frosted with whipped cream frosting.

Notes

If the frosting is overmixed, it can get clumpy. To remedy, slowly stir in more heavy cream by hand until it is smooth again.
Turn the mixer down to low when adding the heavy cream, then turn it back up again.
Use COLD cream cheese and COLD heavy cream.
If your mixer has a sturdy whisk attachment, you can certainly use that. Regular beaters also work well.

Recipe yields about 3 cups of frosting, enough for:

48 cookies with 1 tablespoon of frosting each
24 - 32 whoopie pies with 1 ½ - 2 tablespoons of frosting
24 cupcakes with 2 tablespoons of frosting
One 9 x 13-inch cake
One 2-layer cake

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