Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
Have you ever made something from Pinterest, having high hopes it will turn out as great as it looks online?
- 2 eight ounce packages of cream cheese, room temperature
- 2 stick of unsalted butter, room temperature
- 4 cups of powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup seedless strawberry jam (I used 100% fruit...read ingredients)
- 3/4 chilled heavy whipping cream
In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until it is smooth.
Beat in the powdered sugar, and then the jam. Put that mixture into a bowl, cover and chill in the fridge.
Beat the whipping cream in the chilled bowl until peaks form.
Fold the whipped cream into the original cream cheese mixture. I used a large spatula for this...so easy!
Cover and chill for a couple of hours in the fridge or about 30 minutes in the freezer. (I used the freezer because I was short on time)
To frost my cake, I cut my 2 8 inch circle cakes into 2 layers (allowing for 4 total)
One of my layers broke, so my cake only ended up being 3 layers.
Following that cake recipe referenced above, I placed a layer of cake, spread jam, some frosting, and thin sliced strawberries in that order repeatedly until all layers were used.
On the outside, I frosted the whole thing, and covered with more layered strawberries.
