An easy cream cheese frosting recipe that’s great for sugar cookies, cupcakes, and cakes.
There’s nothing quite as sweet as a perfectly frosted sugar cookie. Sugar cookies decorated beautifully with royal icing and so pretty you can barely manage to take a bite. If you want to eat sugar cookies and not feel guilty about ruining a work of art, then this easy cream cheese cookie icing recipe is for you.
Cream cheese frosting is extremely versatile. It’s great on cake, cupcakes, and even cookies. The cream cheese adds just a little tartness to emphasize the sweetness. The trick is the almond extract. That just kicks the frosting up a notch.
You can dye the frosting any color you like. These are pastel because it’s spring. But just keep the frosting white and add sprinkles, too.
Cream Cheese Cookie Frosting
Easy cream cheese frosting recipe that's great for sugar cookies, cupcakes and cakes.
Ingredients
- Red, yellow, and blue liquid food color
- 3 oz cream cream cheese (room temperature)
- 3 Tablespoons of salted butter (room temperature)
- 1 Tablespoon of milk
- 1 teaspoon of almond extract
- 2 1/2 cups of confectioners sugar
Instructions
- in a medium-sized bowl, add cream cheese, butter, and almond extract. Mix with a blender until combined well.
- With your handheld blender on low, slowly add 1 cup of sugar.
- Add in milk, and continue to blend. Finish adding in the rest of the sugar.
- Once done, divide the icing into 3 different bowls.
- To make the 3 different colors, add 3 drops of food coloring to each bowl accordingly. (1 bowl for red, 1 bowl for yellow, and 1 bowl for blue). Mix each bowl of colored icing until food color is mixed evenly throughout.
- If you want a lighter color, reduce the amount of food coloring by one drop. So, each bowl would get two drops of the coordinating food color.
- Once the cookies have completely cooled, you may add the icing and enjoy!