Confectionery Canary

Cream Cheese Frosting is one of the most simple, delicious and versatile frosting's you can make! It's great on cupcakes, cakes, cookies and spoons! ;)

What you'll need:
-1 8oz block of cream cheese (room temperature)
-3 to 4 cups of confectioner's sugar
-1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:
Let cream cheese reach room temperature. Place in bowl of electric mixer. Sift in confectioner's sugar cup by cup. Cream together on medium speed. Add in vanilla, scrape down bowl, mix thoroughly until thick and fluffy. Add more sugar for thicker frosting.  Place in refrigerator for 30 minutes if using a piping bag, (this helps stiffen the frosting to better show the design you pipe) otherwise, ice cooled cakes or cookies and enjoy!  For more frosting, simply double or triple all ingredients.

*Sweet Tweet Tip: Oh no! Forgot to let cream cheese reach room temperature? No worries, simply place on your stove top surface, above your warm oven, while you bake. (obviously doesn't work if stove top and oven are seperate units.) The heat from your oven will warm the upper surface of your stove top where your cream cheese is, softening it much faster. Works for butter too!

Hello & Welcome to my sweet blog, Confectionery Canary!

My name is Lindsey and I'm a 20 something girly girl who lives in the US but I left my heart in Canada.  I LOVE sweets, to eat them, to make them, to smell them! Yum! My diet consists of 70% sugar and 30% cheese/pasta/bread.  Healthy, I know...
If you follow this blog, you'll discover lots of sweet recipes along with some dinner and side dish recipes too. I love to be in the kitchen!  I'll attempt to cook most anything once, as long as it's not meat related.
Each time I attempt to make a new recipe or share an old recipe, I'll let you know how to make it and how it turned out for me!
Food is an adventure, both cooking it and eating it! So grab your bowl and a spatula and come along with me on this tasty adventure!

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