Cupcake Frosting – Cream Cheese

My family’s and friends’ eyes lit up as I brought out a plate of these cupcakes with their simple cream cheese frosting and their equally simple yet delightfully tempting decorations. 

I’m mad about The Australian Women’s’ Weekly cookbooks and their recipes.  In the covers of everyone of these cookbooks boast this statement “…where every single recipe has been triple tested by the Australian Women’s Weekly Test Kitchen to guarantee your success first time every time”.  I put this to the test.

Below are 3 recipes for cream cheese frosting I made and used in my cupcakes as seen in these pictures.  The frosting is just perfect for my taste.  Each recipe makes enough frosting for 12 standard cupcakes.  I used French vanilla cupcakes.

Recipe: Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

30 g unsalted butter, softened

80 g cream cheese, softened

1 ½ cups powdered sugar, sifted

Instructions:

• Beat butter and cheese in small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• Gradually beat in sifted powdered sugar.
• Put a dollop of cream cheese on each cupcake.

 Decorating Ideas

I topped mine with blue berries.  However you can use any pretty berries on yours – they all look delightful.  Pile the berries on or just use a single berry, it’s your cupcake!

 

 

Recipe: Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

30g unsalted butter, softened

80g cream cheese, softened

1 teaspoon finely grated lemon rind

1 ½ cups powdered sugar, sifted

Instructions:

• Beat butter, cheese and lemon rind in small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• Gradually beat in sifted powdered sugar.
• Put a dollop of cream cheese on each cupcake.

 Decorating Ideas

I topped mine with walnut pieces as seen in the picture.  Again the berries would look just as delightful.

 

 

Recipe: Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

60g unsalted butter, softened

160g cream cheese, softened

2 teaspoons coconut essence

3 cups powdered sugar, sifted

Instructions:

• Beat butter, cheese and coconut essence in small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• Gradually beat in sifted powdered sugar.
• Put a dollop of cream cheese on each cupcake.

Note: This recipe makes more cream cheese frosting because the decoration for this recipe uses more of the frosting.

Decorating Ideas

You will need 1 cup of flake coconut, toasted.  Remove cases from your cupcakes.  Spread cakes with cream cheese frosting, including the sides.  Coat the cupcakes with oasted flake coconut and top each frosted cake with a raspberry.

 

 

Thank s to The Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbooks, I had success the first time round and was able to reproduce the same result again and again.  I’d like to share with you this experience because their recipes embrace my ideas of easy cake recipes with amazing results.