please help, everytime it seems i try to adapt an icing to cream cheese, i see tiny breaks/cracks in it. Anyone have a good cream cheese crusting buttercream recipe that does not need refrigeration..i have tried several

Thansk!!

http://cakecentral.com/recipes/4153/decorators-cream-cheese-frosting

Check out this one!

Thank you so much i will try this one! Do you leave this sit out overnight?? all my recipes are ones to sit out and non perishable, so i want to make sure i do things correctly. this is for a fondant cake also, which i dont like to refrigerate...

does it hold under fondant??

I haven't used the one that was previously linked, but I use this one all the time.
http://cakecentral.com/recipes/2047/crusting-cream-cheese-icing

It works just as well as my regular crusting buttercream recipe and yes, it works well under fondant.

I have left it out for up to 3 days with no change in taste or issues. Not sure what the "protocal" is on it though.

wonderful!! thank you soo much!

This is my favorite recipe. Kathyfs Cream Cheese Frosting

1 cup butter
1/2 cup Crisco
16 oz. cream cheese
3 1/2 lbs powdered sugar
1 T vanilla
1/2 tsp salt

Mix on low speed for a couple of minutes.

If you use clear vanilla in both the color will be a perfect match for <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" />Wilton's buttercream recipe. I use this to frost cheesecakes
when a couple wants part regular cake and part cheesecake for the tiers.

This makes a fairly stiff icing. For a softer one you can use 3 lbs. of powdered sugar.