Can anyone help me with a cream cheese frosting recipe or give advice on icing a cake with it. Once I start icing the cake it becomes too soft and it is very difficult to ice the sides of the cake and I can't seem to get it to look smooth. I have added extra 10X sugar and let it set in the fridge a bit, but that hasn't seemed to help any. I have 4 pumpkin cake orders for Thanksgiving!!

Thanks...

What is your recipe?

Beth in KY

1 lb 10X
1/2 stick butter
2tsp vanilla
milk(which I don't use)

I usually double or triple recipe depending on cake size

oops forgot Cream cheese!

and 8 oz cream cheese

I use this same recipe, but I use a whole stick of butter. The icing comes out very soft and is very difficult to decorate with. I use it for my pineapple coconut cake. I saw a recipe on here that was called cream cheese buttercream icing. I believe you add shortening. This should help to stiffen it. HTH

This is the recipe I use. The recipe IS soft and I don't use it to decorate. I'm wondering what would happen if you used 1/2 butter and 1/2 shortening. Other than that....sorry....I don't know.

GOOD LUCK!

Beth in KY

I think you should use 3-4 oz cream cheese to that recipe, no liquid.

That's how I would do it.

Hey i have a similar recipe that is cream cheese, icing sugar, butter and lemon juice and just wondering does it crust?

Crusting cream cheese frosting recipes:

http://cakecentral.com/recipes/2047/crusting-cream-cheese-icing

http://cakecentral.com/recipes/6817/wedding-crusting-cream-cheese-frosting

HTH

thanks jan i'v had a look at the crusting ones on here but i don't use shortening and they all do so just wondering if it just has the butter in it should it still crust?

Sure, butter buttercreams can crust but shortening is used to made a more stable and decorator friendly icing which can't be achieved using all butter.

HTH

great thank-u, I do use all buttercream frosting all the time and it crusts but wanted to double check it works the same for cream cheese frosting

I use 1/2 cup (125ml) butter
4 cups icing sugar
200 gms cream cheese

In SA we get cottage cheese and cream cheese. I use cream cheese which is a thicker. You can add 1 t of vanilla. Cream the butter and sugar first and then add the cc a little at a time.