Cream Cheese Frosting By: Cookuk.co.uk

KEY POINTS

Pre-cooking Time:	15 minutes	Cooking Time:	None
How Difficult	Easy	Freeze?	No
	Servings	15 toppings

INGREDIENTS
Make sure the cream cheese and butter are at room temperature before using them in this recipe.
COOK'S NOTES
Mixing the ingredients requires a food blender unless the butter and cream cheese are at warm room temperature. Even then, mixing by hand is hard work.
 *Beware the icing sugar! It gets everywhere.

Ingredients	Metric	Imperial	USA
Cream Cheese	250 grams	9 oz	Heaped cup
Butter	150 grams	5 oz	∕ cup
Icing (confectioners) sugar	400 grams	14 oz	3∕ cups
Vanilla essence	½ teaspoon
Food colouring	Optional, see Cook's Notes above

 PREPARATION

Add all the ingredients to the food mixer bowl and blend at full speed for 30 seconds. That's it!Spread the icing over the cup cake. For the final smoothing use a knife warmed in hot water to obtain a smooth finish.

Decorate with whatever takes your fancy. We sprinkled a few chocolate pieces over the cream cheese topping and then crowned the creation with a Love Heart sweet.