Cream Cheese Icing for Cupcakes Recipe

Cream cheese, butter and icing sugar with a drop of vanilla makes a sophisticated topping for cupcakes.

INGREDIENTS

250g / 9oz cream cheese

150g / 5oz butter (salted or unsalted)

400g / 14oz icing (confectioners) sugar

½ teaspoon vanilla essence

Food colouring (optional)

PREPARATION TIME: 15 minutes
 
COOKING TIME: None
 
DIFFICULTY: Easy
 
FREEZE: No
 
SERVINGS: 15 toppings
 
EQUIPMENT: Food mixer or strong muscles!

PREPARATION

Make sure the cream cheese and butter are at room temperature before using them in this recipe.

ADVICE FOR CREAM CHEESE ICING

Mixing the ingredients requires a food blender unless the butter and cream cheese are at warm room temperature. Even then, mixing by hand is hard work.

Beware the icing sugar! It gets everywhere.

RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS

STEP 1

Add all the ingredients to the food mixer bowl and blend at full speed for 30 seconds. That's it!

Spread the icing over the cup cake. For the final smoothing use a knife warmed in hot water to obtain a smooth finish.

Cream cheese topping mix

STEP 2

Decorate with whatever takes your fancy. We sprinkled a few chocolate pieces over the cream cheese topping and then crowned the creation with a Love Heart sweet.

Cupcake cream cheese topping