Cream Cheese Icing without Confectioners Sugar

by Deborah
(West Des Moines, IA)

Hello Lorelie,

I do not like confectioners sugar. Do you have a recipe for a Cream Cheese Icing that uses granulated sugar or a cream cheese variation of your Italian Meringue Buttercream? Thanks, I absolutely LOVE your website.

Deborah

Hi Deborah Thank You! I am so glad you found my website. I have made cream cheese icing using Maple syrup and it is delicious. Here is my recipe subbing in the maple syrup for the confectionery sugar

8 ounces cream cheese
6 Tablespoons sweet butter
3 cups confectioners sugar (substitute maple syrup) Start with 1/8 of a cup and then to taste.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Juice of 1/2 lemon (optional)

It has been a while since I have done this. If you find that it is not thick enough, try making the meringue buttercream and using that in place of the plain butter for added sweetness and texture.

Another thought is to use a custard based frosting such as the in Robin's Red Velvet recipe.

She uses butter (you could try half and half) 1/2 butter and 1/2 cream cheese, with 1 cup confectioners sugar. (try substituting the sugar with the syrup)starting with maybe 1/4 cup to the one cup of butter called for in the recipe.

Then she cooks up milk, vanilla and flour to make a pudding, which then gets cooled and combined with the butter and cream cheese mixture. The filling thickens and fluffs up into a most delicious icing.

Lets see if anyone comes along and adds their thoughts to this. I hope you like to do a little experimentation. LOL Please let me know how it turns out and maybe you will come up with an original. Thanks again for visiting and asking a great question.