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Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting

Here's how you make Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting
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  • Servings: 12
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 0m
    • The following recipe serves 12 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 3/4 cup butter (softened to room temperature for 2-3 hours, DO NOT use margarine which contains lots of water)
  • 4 ounces cream cheese, softened (1/2 of 8 ounce package softened to room temperature, leave out overnight wrapped in saran wrap)
  • 1/8 cup brown sugar, packed (light brown)
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • Pinch of salt
  • 2 to 3 cups confectioners sugar
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons milk, depending on desired consistency
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Cream the cream cheese (by itself - Very Important!) with an electric mixer for 1 minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.

  • Step 2: Add room temperature butter, and beat for 1-2 minutes, or until mixed well.

  • Step 3: Add brown sugar, salt and vanilla. Beat until everything is mixed well.

  • Step 4: Turn off mixer and add 1 cup of confectionary sugar(on low speed so the sugar doesn’t fly out of the bowl), then mix well again with the mixer.

  • Step 5: Slowly add more sugar alternately with the milk until you reach your desired consistency. (I like my cupcake frosting to be slightly more thick than cake frosting, so it can hold its shape on the cupcake, but you make it to your liking).

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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