Spiced Neufchatel Frosting
Recipe: #1757
October 30, 2011
Categories: Cheese, Orange, Christmas, Halloween Thanksgiving, Vegetarian, Cream Cheese, more
"I came up with this for a recipe contest to put on a pumpkin cake. It would be great on any cake that orange and nutmeg would compliment. This makes enough to frost 1 loaf cake or 12 cupcakes. "
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (61.4 g)
- Calories 250
- Total Fat - 10 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.8 g
- Cholesterol - 11.1 mg
- Sodium - 82 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 39 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.4 g
- Sugars - 38.2 g
- Protein - 1.6 g
- Calcium - 24.7 mg
- Iron - 0.3 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.4 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Cream neufchatel and butter together. Beat in vanilla, orange zest and nutmeg.
Step 2
Beat in confectioner’s sugar until right consistency is reached. Add orange juice if it becomes too thick.
Step 3
Frost cake with frosting and sprinkle pecans over the frosting, if desired. You can also cut the loaf in half and frost in between layers.
Tips
No special items needed.