easy cream cheese frosting, made from scratch.

Simple ingredients. And I did cheat, a bit…

My partner had a birthday today and I wanted to bake a cake. I am learning to bake, as noted in my prior post, so I cheated for the cake. (1) Yellow cake mix. Plus, honestly, I did not have a lot of time. Her parents were sneaking over and I am known for last minute things… this was one. Yes… we did social distance…

I also included the variation of the cake. It was a yellow cake mix from Aldi but I subbed ingredients. I tend to like coconut oil more. It makes a mean brownie as well. Just say’n.

Yellow Cake

• (1) Yellow Cake Mix
• (3) Med/Lg Eggs
• (1/3) c. of Coconut Oil for Vegetable Oil (melted)
• (1) c. Milk in place of Water

I mixed all of it together until there were no clumps left.

I used a 13 X 9 greased pan and put in the oven while it was preheating to 350 degrees for 25 minutes. It had been preheating for maybe 5 mins already (while I mixed the batter together).

I got the frosting idea from a recipe called “Insanely Delicious Cream Cheese Frosting,” which I pulled from Pinterest. Great recipe. I needed to tweak it just a bit since I did not have all of the cream cheese – and frankly, I was not sure that I needed 3 c. of frosting. (By the way – the amount that I made generously covered this yellow cake, and still have a container left over.)

Joe’s revised “Insanely Delicious Cream Cheese Frosting”

• (1 3/4) c. Powdered Sugar
• (6) tbs. Softened Butter
• (6) oz. Softened Cream Cheese (sat out of the fridge while I mixed the cake; not frozen)
• (2) tbs. Milk
• (1) tsp. Vanilla Extract
• (?) Drops of food coloring (I chose green)

I mixed all the wet ingredients until there were no clumps and it was smooth. Then I dumped in the powdered sugar and repeated the process. Then voila – it was good.

After the cake came out of the oven I let it cool on the stove – and then put it in the fridge to speed up the chilling process. It also allowed me to put the frosting on quicker.

The finished work. Ignore the green streaks – while writing a message with icing the tube burped or something- and green dots went everywhere. I spooned it off and reapplied. I wanted it perfect, darn-it!

Enjoy.

ww. joe

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