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Super easy cream cheese icing
« on: October 19, 2010, 01:57:21 am »
OK so all cream cheese icings are pretty easy but I just did this one as i had limited time.

The recipe was

500g cream cheese
500g icing
1 tsp vanilla

All in to  *: and mix for as long 30sec on spd 6 scraping sides as necessary.  I left mine beating as I did other things.  So around 1 min.

Note:

I did 1/4 of that recipe and it was HEAPS for a 20cm square cake.  Heaps. 
It would adapt well to lemon or other flavouring as was not too sweet.
I used Spreadable cream cheese and not sure if it will set, is quite runny.  So would advise to use the normal one.

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Re: Super easy cream cheese icing
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2010, 03:02:02 am »
Thanks for that. I've found that the low fat cream cheeses always seem runnier than the normal.
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Re: Super easy cream cheese icing
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2010, 04:24:54 am »
the low fat cream cheese has some ricotta in it (to reduce the fat content) and that is why it is runnier - something I have learnt since I became a consultant  :)
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Re: Super easy cream cheese icing
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2010, 07:36:52 am »
Thanks. At least it isn't something nasty.
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Re: Super easy cream cheese icing
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2010, 08:04:02 am »
I guess you could put in a bit of dissolved gelatine to make sure it set.
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Re: Super easy cream cheese icing
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2010, 01:11:50 am »
I just thought I should update this.  While it hasn't set, it hasn't run off the cake or anything.  So it's all good.

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Re: Super easy cream cheese icing
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2010, 05:54:54 am »
Thanks always great to have recipes like this. 

Maybe just a bit more icing sugar if it seems runny.

I like lemon juice in it too.
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Re: Super easy cream cheese icing
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2010, 09:31:25 am »
Or some butter make it less runny though also a bit more fat ;D