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Runny Icing- Help!

I followed the recipe for cream cheese icing in the Back in the Day Bakery cookbook- A stick of butter (room temp), 16 oz. cream cheese (room temp), one tsp. vanilla beaten until smooth, and then adding 5- 6 cups powdered sugar.

I followed it to the letter, and still ended up with super runny icing. I tried chilling it, but that didn't help so much, so then I tried thickening it up with more powdered sugar which is slowly helping but is also ruining the taste of the icing.

Any ideas on what went wrong?

TIA! 

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Re: Runny Icing- Help!

  • Did you use full-fat cream cheese?  Sometimes the lower fat versions have more liquid/stabilizers in them that can cause the cream cheese to liquify. 
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  • Throw in some more powdered sugar to firm it up.  Did you leave your butter out too long?  It should have still been cold in the middle to be at room temp.
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  • Aha! I was using low fat cream cheese. I bet that was it- I'll switch it up next time. Thanks!
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