Are the cinnamon rolls ready and you want something a little more savory than powdered sugar glaze to top them with? I’ve got you, friend! This small batch cream cheese frosting can be literally whipped up in less time than it takes to bake those buns, hun.
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Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients:
- 3 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 5 tablespoons butter, softened
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- heavy pinch of salt
Instructions:
First, allow the cream cheese to get to room temperature and for the butter to soften as well. Do this while you are making up your cinnamon rolls or scones or whatever needs frosting.
While your masterpiece is baking, take this time to whip up your cream cheese frosting. Grab those beaters and hand-held mixer!
Now add all ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Using the hand-held mixer on the lowest setting, mix together the ingredients for about 3 minutes or until all are whipped nicely together.
Then use a spatula or frosting knife to ice cinnamon rolls, scones, or any other baked good needing a savory, sweet, delicious cream cheese frosting.
Note: I like to add this frosting to cinnamon rolls when the rolls have cooled down a lot but not completely. The heat allows the frosting to “melt” into the cinnamon roll for a more evenly distributed frosting to roll ratio.
How much cream cheese frosting does this recipe make?
I call this recipe “small batch” but it’s more of a schmedium batch of frosting.
It’s still enough to use all of it up for one cinnamon roll recipe, though. About 12 cinnamon rolls or buns will work for this cream cheese frosting recipe.
Generally I will make this yeast sandwich bread recipe that yields two loaves. But instead of two sandwich loaves, I’ll turn half the dough into bread and the other half into cinnamon rolls per this recipe here.
This recipe allows you to frost between 13-18 cinnamon rolls. It depends on how much frosting you like! Some like a little less and some like a whole lot more.
I recently used this recipe to frost 13 cinnamon rolls about 3 inches in diameter a piece plus 8 cream scones. The scones received a light frosting, whereas the cinnamon rolls got a heavier dose.
Is this cream cheese frosting very sweet?
Not at all.
I love a sweet thing too but I can easily get that “sugar rush” from too sweet Sweet Tea and other desserts. I’m not a fan of too much sugar for a host of reasons.
This cream cheese frosting is the right amount of tangy and savory cream cheese and a touch of sweet to balance it out.
Furthermore, there’s plenty of brown sugar in my yeasty cinnamon rolls so adding more sugar to the cream cheese frosting than necessary isn’t our preference.
Make Cream Cheese Frosting *almost* completely homemade
If you want to get super extra with this cream cheese frosting recipe, make the ingredients yourself!
Here are a few recipes for how I make most of these ingredients by hand in my own kitchen to save money and to know EXACTLY what is in the ingredients:
Cheaper than store bought Vanilla Extract
And yes, I have tried to make my own cream cheese. I’ve had more failures than success but I am not willing to give up! They *say* it’s easy. I’m still a work in progress on that one.
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Small Batch Cream Cheese Frosting
Equipment
- 1 hand held mixer or standing mixer
Ingredients
- 3 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 5 tablespoons butter softened
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- heavy pinch of salt
Instructions
- First, allow the cream cheese to get to room temperature and for the butter to soften as well. Do this while you are making up your cinnamon rolls or scones or whatever needs frosting.
- While your sweets are baking, take this time to whip up your cream cheese frosting. with a hand-held mixer or standing mixer.
- Add all ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Using the hand-held mixer on the lowest setting, mix together the ingredients for about 3 minutes or until all are whipped nicely together.
- Use a spatula or frosting knife to ice cinnamon rolls, scones, or any other baked good needing a savory, sweet, delicious cream cheese frosting.
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