Strawberry (Jam!) Cream Cheese Frosting recipe

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Ingredients

½ cup unsalted butter, softened
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 cups confectioners' sugar
¼ cup strawberry jam
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Nutrition Info

301.3 calories
carbohydrate: 38.6 g
cholesterol: 46.1 mg
fat: 16.5 g
fiber: : -
protein: 1.2 g
saturatedFat: 10.4 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 43.9 mg
sugar: 37.2 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Beat butter and cream cheese together in a bowl using an electric mixer until creamy and smooth. Add confectioners' sugar, 1 cup at a time, to creamed butter with the mixer on low speed until smooth and creamy, beat in strawberry jam and vanilla extract.

Recipe Yield

8 servings

Recipe Note

This foolproof frosting keeps it simple. While very sweet, it's just the thing to balance the natural flavor of a homestyle scratch cake recipe. I used it the first time to lighten up a cake made with a heavy whole grain white flour. Uh-mazing!

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