This gingerbread cream cheese frosting blends tangy cream cheese with molasses, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg for a clean, vacation-spiced end that spreads like a dream. Perfect for gingerbread loaf, cupcakes, cookies, and cinnamon rolls, it mixes up in minutes.
Why This Frosting Works
Real gingerbread taste – Because we use molasses and heat spices like ginger and cinnamon, you get a real gingerbread taste.
Silky, spreadable texture – The cream cheese and butter come collectively to create the proper spreadable texture, not gloopy or runny.
Fast – This gingerbread cream cheese frosting in made in a single bowl, in solely ten minutes with no particular instruments.
Recipe Essentials
This gingerbread cream cheese frosting comes along with only a handful of elements and spices. A full record of elements with measurements for this recipe is obtainable within the printable recipe card beneath.
- Cream cheese – Because this can be a cream cheese frosting, we want cream cheese proper? I like to make use of full fats cream cheese and ensure it’s room temperature.
- Ground ginger
- Cinnamon
- Ground cloves
Mix Things Up!
You can change up this frosting any manner you’d like, however listed below are a couple of recommendations.
- Orange-Ginger: Orange is a taste that enhances ginger very nicely. Add 1 tsp of contemporary orange zest to offer it a citrusy aptitude.
- Maple-Gingerbread: Add some heat and further sweetness to your frosting by swapping the milk with maple syrup.
- Extra-Tangy: If the tanginess of cream cheese frosting is your favourite half, add additional tang by including ½ tsp lemon juice to brighten.
How to Use it
If you’re loopy like me, you’ll love this gingerbread cream cheese frosting a lot you’ll wish to eat it by the spoonful! But in fact, it tastes nice on any variety of baked items too.
I prefer to apply it to my gingerbread loaf cake, gingerbread snack cake, vanilla cupcakes or actually every other sort of cake or cupcake you possibly can consider. Try utilizing it as a filling between two gingerbread cookies, and even on high of freshly baked cinnamon rolls.
More Gingerbread Spiced Recipes
My all time favourite Christmas taste is gingerbread! Here are a couple of of my favourite recipes that remember that.
Gingerbread Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
Make silky gingerbread cream cheese frosting with cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, molasses and heat spices!
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Servings: cup
Cream collectively the softened 4 ounces full-fats brick cream cheese and 1/2 cup unsalted butter till clean.
Add the 1 3/4 cups powdered sugar till clean.
Beat within the 1 tablespoon unsulphured molasses, 1/2 teaspoon floor ginger, 1/2 teaspoon floor cinnamon, 1/8 teaspoon floor cloves and 1/8 teaspoon floor nutmeg.
Add 1-2 teaspoons milk if the consistency must be thinner for spreading.
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Freezing: Store any leftovers in an hermetic container within the freezer for as much as three months.
Calories: 1819 kcal, Carbohydrates: 235 g, Protein: 19 g, Fat: 94 g, Saturated Fat: 59 g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 4 g, Monounsaturated Fat: 24 g, Trans Fat: 4 g, Cholesterol: 258 mg, Sodium: 823 mg, Potassium: 667 mg, Fiber: 1 g, Sugar: 227 g, Vitamin A: 2908 IU, Vitamin C: 0.1 mg, Calcium: 488 mg, Iron: 2 mg
