Skip to footer

Strawberry cream cheese frosting (and cupcakes galore!)

This is a recipe for frosting fanatics. Mix and match this strawberry cream cheese frosting with your favorite cupcakes.

|
Eat. Run. Read.
Find that last carton of strawberries on sale at the market and make this strawberry cream cheese frosting.

I know that for most of you out there frosting is your favorite part of the cake eating experience. And though I'm more of a cake girl myself (I value a reasonable frosting-to-cake ratio), I bake for friends, so I know what's up. More frosting is always appreciated.

This strawberry cream cheese frosting is delightful. You know when you stick your finger into something you've made for a taste and immediately think (or say) wow? That is this frosting. It has fresh strawberries and jam, so take advantage of those end-of-summer berries while you can! Pretty soon we're going to be all pumpkin all the time.

I used this frosting on these vegan chocolate cupcakes (my favorite chocolate cake recipe). I imagine it would also go well with a white cake, or lemon cake. This recipe makes enough for one cake (two to three layers), or for a batch of cupcakes. You could also adapt it for any fresh berry/jam combo like blueberries or raspberries.

*Editor's Note: Looking for cupcake ideas to go with this frosting? Here are a few of our favorites from Mollie and others:

Easy, moist (vegan) chocolate cupcakes

King Cake Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Filling

Cream-filled vanilla cupcakes

Raspberry cupcakes

Strawberry cream cheese frosting

1 block (8 ounces) cream cheese, room temperature

1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, room temperature

6 fresh strawberries, very finely chopped

3 tablespoons strawberry jam or jelly

1-1/2 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 tablespoons milk, as needed

1. Beat the cream cheese, butter, fresh strawberries, and jam with a hand mixer or stand mixer until fairly smooth, (the fresh strawberries will be a little chunky).

2. Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla.

3. Add milk if the frosting is too thick.

4. Spread on everything!

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to Strawberry cream cheese frosting (and cupcakes galore!)
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Food/Stir-It-Up/2013/0920/Strawberry-cream-cheese-frosting-and-cupcakes-galore!
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe