The Best Homemade Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting

Looking for an easy and delicious basic buttercream frosting recipe? This is the BEST homemade buttercream cream cheese frosting recipe!

Homemade frosting is SO much better than store bought, and once you realize how easy it is to whip up this perfect homemade cream cheese buttercream frosting, I’m pretty sure you will never go back to the canned stuff ever again! This recipe makes enough to frost a good-sized cake or 3-4 dozen cupcakes, so feel free to cut it in half if you don’t need quite as much.

The Best Homemade Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting Recipe

Here is what you need:

1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 1/2 pounds (3 8oz packages) cream cheese
6 cups powdered sugar (about a pound and a half)

Step 1: Whip together butter & cream cheese on medium high speed until well blended and fluffy, approximately 1-2 minutes.

Step 2: Reduce speed to low and slowly blend in powdered sugar. Once sugar is blended in, increase speed to medium and beat well for another 1-2 minutes until smooth. That’s it! (Really!)

 

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THE BEST BUTTERCREAM CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Just 3 ingredients and 5 minutes to make–you’ll never buy the canned stuff again!

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword The Best Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1/2 pound 2 sticks butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 pounds 3 8oz packages cream cheese
  • 6 cups powdered sugar about a pound and a half

Instructions

  1. Whip together butter & cream cheese on medium high speed until well blended and fluffy, approximately 1-2 minutes.
  2. Reduce speed to low and slowly blend in powdered sugar. Once sugar is blended in, increase speed to medium and beat well for another 1-2 minutes until smooth. That’s it! (Really!)

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Can you believe how easy that is?

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