Easy Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting without butter
This peanut butter cream cheese frosting is a perfect combination of sweet and tangy frosting that pairs perfectly well with a chocolate cake and takes just 5 mins to make.
In a medium bowl, using a hand beater beat the cold cream cheese for about a minute until it is smooth and lump free.
Add the peanut butter and beat again. Then in goes icing sugar. Beat that too.
Finally add the whipping cream and vanilla essence and beat again until stiff peaks form.
Use it to fill and frost as well as pipe any decorations of choice of cakes or cupcakes
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Notes
Use cold cream cheese and whip till lump free. Personally, this is my favorite tip to make this delicious frosting especially to get the smooth consistency.
Also, use full-fat cream cheese to get the best results
Sieve the icing sugar at least twice before making this recipe.
Scrape the bowl every now and then while you add the next ingredient
Use smooth peanut butter for best results
If you are making this creamy frosting in the bowl of a stand mixer then beat with a paddle attachment and not a whisk attachment.
The nutritional chart given below is calculated only for the frosting on top of the cupcakes and does not include the calorie count of the cupcake.