BEST Low Fat Cream Cheese Frosting. A lightened up cream cheese frosting perfect on cupcakes or your favorite cake recipe. You could also use Splenda to lower the sugar if you are on a restricted sugar diet. Trouble Shooting for Runny Cream Cheese Frosting.
Cream cheese: I recommend Philadelphia (not sponsored it's just the only cream cheese I buy, delicious flavor and consistent consistency).
Do not use Neufchâtel cheese (aka low fat cream cheese).
Unsalted butter: Since there's already salt in the cream cheese I highly recommend going with unsalted butter so frosting isn't too salty.
You can cook BEST Low Fat Cream Cheese Frosting using 3 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of BEST Low Fat Cream Cheese Frosting
- It's 250 grams of Block low fat cream cheese.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of Vanilla Essence.
- You need 1/2 cup of Icing Sugar.
If you haven't heard, low-fat diets can make you overweight and unhealthy so I don't see any point in reducing the amount of fat, unless your worry is calories. We made this frosting healthy, with less saturated fat and calories than traditional versions, by using reduced-fat cream cheese instead of full-fat cream cheese, using Greek yogurt in place of butter and keeping sugar to a minimum. In another bowl beat the cream cheese with vanilla until smooth; add in pudding and mix to combine well. Fold in Cool Whip starting with a quarter of the container adding in more until you achieve desired consistany and taste.
BEST Low Fat Cream Cheese Frosting instructions
- Place all ingedients in bowl. Mix well with an electric mixer until smooth and well combined..
- Set aside in fridge and whisk again when ready to serve. You can be creative, adjusting the sweetness, adding whatever spices will suit. For example citrus rind and juice, Cinnamon, etc..
Place frosting ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix on medium speed until well blended. Ice cake when cake is completely cool. Optional garnishes: Sprinkle finely chopped walnuts. Over the years of sharing gluten free dessert recipes, I've shared several versions of this cream cheese frosting recipe.