What Is Cream cheese frosting and How Can I Use It?

If cream cheese frosting has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 6 recipes to try it in.

In Chinese:	奶油奶酪结霜
British (UK) term:	Cream cheese frosting
en français:	crème glaçage au fromage
en español:	queso crema glaseado

Recipes using cream cheese frosting

There are 6 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Granny's Carrot Cake

My grandma used to make this carrot cake for me every year when I was at her place during summer vacation. It was the best carrot cake ever because it was packed with love :)

Coconut Cream Cake

Coconut cream cake: white cake mix doctored with cream of coconut and sour cream, baked and topped with cream cheese frosting and flaked coconut. A boxed-cake hack that tastes scratch-made.

Mrs. Picky's Pig Pickin Cake

When you want to take a wonderful cake to any social event, make a pig pickin cake.

Bailey's Irish Cream Bars

This is a perfect snackin' dessert for St. Patrick's Day. People keep coming back for more of this Irish Cream enrich cake like bar.

Jack-O'-Lantern Cookies

Jack-o'-lantern cookies made by dipping Oreos in orange-tinted cream cheese frosting coating. A fun no-bake Halloween treat kids love to decorate with chocolate icing faces.