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The secret to cream cheese icing

Cream cheese frosting brings a relentless cascade of drool to many people’s lips. It is, at its core, a very simple frosting and yet it is so often cloyingly sweet and bereft of the tang and substance that makes it so sublime. Here then, is my “ultimate” cream cheese frosting:

8oz	cream cheese, cold
4Tbsp	butter, unsalted
2Tbsp	powdered buttermilk (Sacco)
3/4C	confectioner’s sugar (10x powdered)
1tsp	vanilla

The method is reasonably simple. Beat the cream cheese until lightened and slightly airy. Then, add the butter, beating to combine. Then, add the powdered buttermilk and mix.

Once that’s done, slowly add the confectioner’s sugar¹ until combined and the texture begins to change. At that point, add the vanilla and mix in. Spread, eat, repeat.

¹ This is to taste. I like it less sweet, some people use more.