Cream Cheese Apple Cider Frosting Recipes

APPLE SPICE CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Melt the butter in a large saute pan over medium heat. Toss in the apples and stir to coat them with the butter. Add the lemon juice and the apple cider. Cook until the apples have softened and the cider has reduced by half. Transfer the mixture to a food processor and pulse into a coarse paste. Reserve.
• In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, both of the sugars and a pinch of salt. Make a well in the dry ingredients and add the pureed apples, the egg and vanilla. Stir to combine. Toss in the walnuts and raisins.
• Butter and flour a loaf pan. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and put it in the preheated oven. Bake until a toothpick, inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 to 45 minutes.
• Remove the pan from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan and cool completely.
• Cut the cake in half equatorially and spread half of the icing on the bottom layer. Replace the top half and ice the top of the cake, leave the sides bare. Slice and serve.
• Beat together all of the ingredients in a stand mixer or with a hand mixer until light and fluffy.

APPLE CIDER CUPCAKES WITH BOURBON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 12 muffin tins with liners.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside.
• In a separate bowl, use a hand or stand mixer, with a paddle attachment, to cream together sugars and butter for about 2-3 minutes. Once light and fluffy, add vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, mixing between each addition, and scraping the sides as needed.
• Combine oil and apple cider. Alternate adding the dry and wet ingredients together, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients (3 dry additions, 2 wet additions). Mix together the batter until just combined between each addition.
• Divide the batter evenly between each muffin tin, filling approximately 3/4 of the way full. Bake for 14-17 minutes until the internal temperature reaches approximately 200°F. Be careful to not overbake. Let the cupcakes cool completely before frosting.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, add softened cream cheese and butter; beat until fully combined and smooth.
• Add bourbon, and vanilla extract if using, stirring to combine. Add powdered sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, mixing to combine between each addition. Continue mixing until smooth, adding an additional 1/2 cup of powdered sugar for a thicker texture.
• Spread or pipe the frosting on top of cooled cupcakes and sprinkle with additional cinnamon, as desired.

BASIC CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Beat softened butter and cream cheese until well blended.
• Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat until creamy.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• In large bowl, beat softened butter and cream cheese with electric mixer on medium speed 2 to 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally, until smooth and creamy.
• Stir in vanilla, then stir in powdered sugar. Add more powdered sugar as needed until frosting is a thick spreadable consistency.
• Spread or pipe frosting on cooled cake or cupcakes.

APPLE CIDER CAKE WITH CINNAMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or in a large mixing bowl with a handheld mixer, beat together the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon until smooth and creamy, 4 to 5 minutes.

APPLE CIDER FROSTING

Steps:

• Mix butter and apple cider in mixer until combined. Make sure that apple cider is not cold.
• Add pumpkin pie spice or cinnamon, mix throughly.
• Add powdered sugar slowly.
• This will be pretty thin (like a glaze) so add more powdered sugar if needed.

APPLE CIDER CUPCAKES WITH CIDER CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• Make the cupcakes:
• In a large saucepan boil the cider until it is reduced to about 1 1/2 cups and let it cool. In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat together the shortening and the sugar until the mixture is fluffy and beat in the eggs, 1 at a time. Into the bowl sift together the flour, the cloves, the cinnamon, the baking soda, and a pinch of salt, stir in the reduced cider, and combine the mixture well. Divide the batter among 18 paper-lined 1/2-cup muffin tins and bake the cupcakes in the middle of a preheated 375°F. oven for 25 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean. Transfer the cupcakes to a rack, let them cool in the tins, and remove them from the tins.
• Make the icing:
• In a saucepan boil the cider until it is reduced to about 1/4 cup and let it cool. In a bowl with an electric mixer beat together the cream cheese, the confectioners' sugar, the reduced cider, and a pinch of salt until the icing is smooth.
• Spread each cupcake with some of the icing.

MY CREAM CHEESE AND APPLESAUCE FROSTING

Steps:

• With the electric mixer, cream the butter into the cream cheese.
• Add the applesauce.
• Gradually blend in the icing sugar until a nice creamy consistency is obtained.