Cream Cheese Glaze

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Cream Cheese Glaze is a simple glaze for muffins, cupcakes and cakes. It takes about five minutes and contains only five ingredients.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Servings servings

Calories 142kcal

Cost $3

Soften the cream cheese and butter to room temperature. Add them to a medium bowl.
4 ounces cream cheese, 4 ounces unsalted butter
Beat with a hand mixer until light and fluffy.
Sift the powdered sugar into the wet ingredients to eliminate lumps. Beat until smooth.
1 cup powdered sugar
Add the vanilla and the milk until desired consistency is obtained.
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 2 tablespoons milk

Yields about ⅔ cup of glaze. Enough for one large bundt cake, 12 muffins, doughnuts or cupcakes, 2 quick breads, or about a dozen cinnamon rolls.

Pro Tips

Let your cakes, cookies or cupcakes come to room temperature before applying the glaze. If the cake is warm, the glaze will melt.
If you added too much milk and you need to thicken the glaze back up, add more powdered sugar.
If you want the thinner, add more milk. Only add a teaspoon at a time, otherwise it may get too thin and then you have to add more sugar.
Why use a glaze instead of cream cheese frosting? A glaze is used for drizzling down cakes while a frosting is thick and is used for frosting the entire cake or cupcake. Glazes have an added benefit in that the cake won’t be as sweet, and it will have less calories than a frosted cake.