Maple Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

This easy maple cream cheese frosting is the perfect refined sugar-free topping for cakes, breads, and muffins. With our tips and just 4 all real ingredients, you will have the best frosting you've ever tasted.

Course Desserts

Cuisine American

Keyword dessert, easy dessert, recipe, maple, cream cheese, maple cream cheese frosting, frosting, cake frosting

Prep Time 1

Cook Time 5

Total Time 1 5

Servings cupcakes

Calories 128kcal

Author Dani Meyer

Ingredients

16 oz cream cheese room temperature
1/2 cup salted butter room temperature
1/4-1/2 cup pure maple syrup to your sweetness taste
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Ensure cream cheese and butter are both at room temperature.
Beat cream cheese and butter with a mixer until smooth. Add vanilla and pour in maple syrup while you are mixing slowly until smooth and fully combined.

Notes

Cream cheese and butter MUST be at room temperature for at least 1 hour prior to mixing or be gently warmed or mixture will be lumpy.

If frosting is lumpy your butter or cream cheese was too cold. Microwave for 20-30 (depending on microwave strength) second increments beating for 1-2 minutes between sessions until frosting smooths. May need to be refrigerated for a while after this to return to a spreadable state.

This amount easily frosts 2 dozen cupcakes.

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