Keto Cream Cheese Frosting

This Keto Cream Cheese Frosting is a light, smooth, and creamy sugar-free frosting with vanilla tangy flavors. It’s perfect to frost any keto cupcakes, spread between keto cake layers but also a great cream cheese icing for keto cookies.

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I have shared before my keto chocolate frosting made with butter. This vanilla cream cheese keto frosting is my new keto-friendly option to frost my keto vanilla cake, keto carrot cake, or a keto red velvet cake.

While buttercream frosting is great for light, not-too-sweet keto cakes, I prefer this cream cheese frosting to add a tangy flavor to sweeter desserts like for icing my keto sugar cookies or decorating a keto pumpkin bread or some keto carrot cake cupcakes.

Ingredients and Substitutions

The ingredients you need to make the best pipeable cream cheese frosting without sugar are:

• Softened Cream Cheese – I recommend using full-fat cream cheese; it has a firmer texture, and it’s easier to pipe on top of cupcakes.
• Softened Unsalted Butter – cubed and at room temperature for an hour.
• Unsweetened Almond Milk is the best low-carb choice of milk and it has no flavors.
• Powdered Sugar-Free Sweeteners like allulose powder or powdered erythritol.
• Vanilla Extract for flavor, or use vanilla stevia drops to add the vanilla flavor and boost the sweetness of this sugar-free keto frosting.

How to Make Keto Cream Cheese Frosting

1. In a cold mixing bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer, add the softened cubes of butter and cream cheese. Use a hand beater, or the whisk attachment of the stand mixer to beat the ingredients into a creamy, smooth, and pale color.
2. Stop the beater, add the remaining ingredients, and switch to the paddle attachment, or use the hand mixer to beat in the ingredients.

3. Beat until the frosting is thick and creamy and it holds its shape. If the frosting is too thin, beat in a few more softened cubes of cream cheese.

Using the Frosting

This keto frosting recipe is firm enough to pipe on top of keto muffins and keto cupcakes. You can also use this cream cheese frosting without a piping bag to ice keto sugar cookies or to spread between keto cake layers.

Always ensure the cupcakes are at room temperature, or the frosting will melt onto the baked goods. If piping, use your favorite piping bag nozzle, then fill the piping bag to half its volume, hold at 45°, and pipe on top of:

• Keto Strawberry Muffins
• Keto Blueberry Muffins
• Keto Chocolate Muffins
• Keto Chocolate Cake
• Almond Flour Pumpkin Muffins
• Keto Red Velvet Cake

More Keto Frosting Recipes

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Keto Cream Cheese Frosting

0.3gNet Carbs

This Keto Cream Cheese Frosting is light, smooth, and creamy sugar-free cream cheese frosting with vanilla tangy flavors. It's perfect to frost any keto cupcakes, spread between keto cakes but also a great keto cream cheese icing for keto cookies.

Author: Carine Claudepierre

Prep: 10 minutes mins

Total: 10 minutes mins

Yield: 36 servings (2 tbsp)

Serving Size: 2 tablespoons

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Ingredients

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• ▢ 8 oz Cream Cheese softened, cubed, at room temperature for 1 hour
• ▢ ⅓ cup Unsalted Butter softened, cubed, at room temperature for 1 hour
• ▢ ½ cup Powdered Erythritol erythritol or allulose works best
• ▢ 1-2 tablespoons Unsweetened Almond Milk at room temperature, add up to 2-4 tablespoons extra to reach your favorite consistency
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• ▢ 1-2 drops Stevia drops optional

Instructions

• In a large mixing bowl, add the cubes of soft cream cheese and softened butter.
• Beat on medium-high speed, softened butter and softened cubes of cream cheese with an electric beater until creamy, and soft – about 30 seconds to 1 minute.
• Stop the beater and add the remaining ingredients: powdered sweetener (I used powdered allulose), vanilla extract, stevia drops if used, and unsweetened almond milk.
• Beat again on medium speed. If the frosting is too thick to your liking, add more almond milk (at room temperature, not cold!), 1 tablespoon at a time, beat, and add up to 2 tablespoons of extra milk until you reach your favorite texture.
• Adjust stevia drops if the frosting is not sweet enough for you.
• Use as a frosting for keto cupcakes or keto cake.

Notes

Storage: Store the frosting in the fridge in an airtight box for up to 4 days. The frosting gets hard in the fridge because the butter hardens at cold temperatures. Simply remove the frosting from the fridge for 3 hours to get it soft and creamy again.

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NutritionServing Size: 2 tablespoons

Yield: 36 servings (2 tbsp)

Nutrition

Serving: 2 tablespoonsCalories: 70.6 kcal (4%)Carbohydrates: 0.7 gFiber: 0.4 g (2%)Net Carbs: 0.3 gProtein: 0.3 g (1%)Fat: 7.8 g (12%)Saturated Fat: 5 g (31%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3 gMonounsaturated Fat: 2 gTrans Fat: 0.3 gCholesterol: 20.3 mg (7%)Sodium: 61.6 mg (3%)Potassium: 20.4 mg (1%)Sugar: 0.03 gVitamin A: 236.4 IU (5%)Vitamin B12: 0.02 µgCalcium: 4.3 mgIron: 0.2 mg (1%)Magnesium: 6.1 mg (2%)Zinc: 0.1 mg (1%)