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How To Make Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing

This delicious recipe from the buttercup cake shop makes for a great chocolate cream cheese icing. Moreish, fluffy and delicious, this is the perfect topping for your cakes or cupcakes. Enlarge

How To Make Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing

This delicious recipe from the buttercup cake shop makes for a great chocolate cream cheese icing. Moreish, fluffy and delicious, this is the perfect topping for your cakes or cupcakes.

Prep:
15m
Total:
15m

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 kg icing sugar
  • 500 g butter
  • 400 g cream cheese
  • vanilla essence
  • plain chocolate

Step 1: Mix the Butter and Cream Cheese

Take a bowl, add the butter and cream cheese. Mix in a mixer, starting at a low speed then increasing until the mixture is really light and fluffy.

Step 2: Add the Sugar and Vanilla

Then add the icing sugar and vanilla essence. Mix again, starting at a low speed to avoid kicking up too much icing dust. Slowly increase the speed to full once the icing sugar is incorporated.

Step 3: Add the Chocolate

Melt the plain chocolate and add to the mix. Continue to mix until the consistency is smooth, fluffy and light.