Cream Cheese Icing

Cream Cheese Icing

Classically this icing is used on carrot cake, but it also goes well on chocolate and beetroot cake and on banana bread.

Ingredients  (enough to ice a 20cm diameter cake)

200g cream cheese

100g unsalted butter

100g icing sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method

1.Whisk the butter and cream cheese together with an electric whisk on low speed until the mixture is soft.

2. Add the sugar and vanilla essence and continue whisking on low speed until the icing is smooth.

Background Information

Most recipes for cream cheese icing use a lot more sugar than this one does– if you prefer a sweeter icing you can add up to 300g of icing sugar to the cream cheese and butter in this recipe; I personally prefer it with only 100g of sugar.