- prep: 15 min
- cook: 15 min
- total: 30 min
Summary
This classic frosting couldn’t be easier to make and is a must for finishing red velvet and carrot cakes (or a batch of cupcakes). Using vanilla bean paste gives it a pretty speckled look, but if you don’t have it on hand, pure vanilla extract will lend the same flavor.
Ingredients
- 2 (8-ounce packages) cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 1/3 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
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Nutrition
Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 4
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 786 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 51 g 78.34%
- Saturated Fat: 32 g 157.53%
- Trans Fat: 2 g %
- Cholesterol: 136 mg 45.47%
- Sodium: 113 mg 4.72%
- Calcium: 27 mg 2.75%
- Potassium: 34 mg 0.97%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 0 mg 0.13%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 87 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 0 g 0%
- Sugar: 80 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 1 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 1 g
- Vitamin A 31.54%
- Vitamin C 0%
- Vitamin D 0%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat10
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs6
- Exchange - Starch0
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total0 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total0 oz-eq