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How To Make Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

Lemon cream cheese frosting is a delicious topping for all your cakes and cupcakes, and it's great fun to make too! David from Outsider Tart American bakery shows you how in this step by step guide. Enlarge

How To Make Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

Lemon cream cheese frosting is a delicious topping for all your cakes and cupcakes, and it's great fun to make too! David from Outsider Tart American bakery shows you how in this step by step guide.

Prep:
5m
Total:
5m

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups (380ml) granulated sugar
  • 1 lemon
  • 220 g cream cheese
  • 170 g mascarpone
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Method

Zest the lemon into the bowl of sugar. If your lemon is waxy, give it a good wash before zesting it. Try not to get any of the white pith into the bowl as it is quite bitter. Mix the zest and the sugar in an electric mixer to get the essential oils to infuse into the sugar. Mix for a couple of minutes.

Add the cream cheese, the mascarpone and the vanilla to the sugar and beat with the electric mixer until all the ingredients are combined. If your frosting is a little liquidy you can add some lemon juice to curdle the cream cheese again.