Yummy Neufchatel Cream Frosting

For cheese lovers and those who are on a keto diet, this Yummy Neufchatel Cream Frosting is right up your alley! Low in carbs, fluffy in texture, and sweetened with refined sugar-free makes this Neufchatel Cream Frosting the best you will ever try!

With this frosting you will be able to garnish your cupcakes, carrot cake, pancakes and more! It’s so easy to make and incredibly tasty, you will only need 5 ingredients to prepare it! It is so good, when you try in you will be pairing it with many of your desserts!

Ingredients:

The 5 ingredients you will need to make this Yummy Neufchatel Cream Frosting:

Neufchatel cheese or cream cheese: You can use anyone of them to prepare your cheese frosting. Both are dense, soft and smooth. I decided to make my frosting with neufchatel cheese because it contains 23% milk fat, 10 less fat percentage than cream cheese wich has 33% milk fat. So, it would be up to you which one of these two you want to use for your frosting. Either way it will still be good.

Heavy whipping Cream: The whipping cream will help our Neufchatel Cream Frosting to get the fluffy and stiff consistency we need.

• Can I use alternative heavy whipping cream? Yes, this is a choice that will reduce milk fat on our recipe. If you decide on this alternative choice, be sure to adding 10 g of stabilizer for whipping cream, that way we will get the fluffy and stiff consistency in our alternative heavy whipping cream.

Butter: For our Neufchatel Cream Frosting, we will need 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter. This is a reduced amount of butter, comparing to the quantity of butter we need to make a regular buttercream frosting.

• Can I use vegan butter? Yes, try to look for an unsalted vegan butter stick and not butter spread. The vegan butter sticks are harder than the ones that come in a container. We don’t want to get a runny consistency in our frosting.

Sweetener: For this recipe I used powdered monk fruit sweetener with erythritol. This will provide a good taste, low carbs, smooth texture and structure to my frosting.

Vanilla extract: Use one with strong taste to give flavor to our Neufchatel Cream Frosting.

Salt: A pinch of salt will be enough to give balance to the sweetness of our Neufchatel Cream Frosting.

How to make this Yummy Neufchatel Cream Frosting?

• Have your neufchatel cream, butter and heavy whipping cream room temperature before using it.
• Whisk with a stand mixer or hand mixer with the heavy whipping cream apart from the neufchatel cream and butter. We need to mix the heavy whipping cream separately to get a fluffy consistency and that peaks from our cream.

Tip: Don’t over beat the heavy whipping cream, that would end up in a firm texture. We want our frosting to have structure but we also want our frosting to be smooth and fluffy.

• In a different bowl, whip the neufchatel cream with powdered sugar, salt and vanilla.
• Fold slowly the neufchatel cream, powdered sugar, salt and vanilla with the whipped heavy cream. Then, use the mixer until everything is fully combined and fluffy.

Yummy Neufchatel Cream Frosting

For cheese lovers and the ones who are on a keto diet. This Yummy Neufchatel Cream Frosting is a great alternative! Low in carbs, fluffy in texture and sweetened with refined sugar-free makes this Neufchatel Cream Frosting the best you will ever try!

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 15 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 12 people

Calories 54 kcal

Equipment

• 1 stand mix or hand mixer
• 2 bowls
• 1 Spatula

Ingredients

  

• 6 oz neufchatel cheese bar
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter
• 1 pinch salt
• ½ tsp vanilla
• 1¼ cup powdered monk fruit sweetener with erythritol

Instructions

 

• In a bowl, beat the neufchatel cheese bar until creamy. Add the powdered monk fruit sweetener with erythritol, salt and vanilla.
• In another bowl, whip the heavy cream until it forms stiff peaks.
• Fold the whipped cream into the neufchael cheese mixture then use the mixer until it is fully combined and fluffy.
• Use immediately for frosting, piping or filling.

Notes

Recipe Notes

To storage your Neufchatel Cream Frosting, you can storage it in a container and put it in the fridge.   You also can storage the leftovers left in the piping bag after frosting your  cupcakes, putting this in a Ziploc and leaving it in the fridge for up a week.

If you have already put your frosting on cupcakes or cakes, You can leave your preparation room temperature in an air-tight container.  It will last 3 days.

**Nutritional information is an estimate and may vary.

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