Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting with Cinnamon

How do you make cream cheese frosting even better? Add the warmth of cinnamon and brown sugar. This cinnamon brown sugar cream cheese frosting with perfect with pumpkin cakes, apple cakes, spice cakes, and more.

Spice cakes, apple cakes, carrot cakes and more are just begging to be covered with this luscious brown sugar and cinnamon cream cheese frosting.  It is super simple to make and perfect between graham crackers, on cakes or cookies too! Whip up a batch asap!

Frosting is what makes the cake.  It adds the creamy layer of sweet goodness and can really tie it together.

That is especially true when the frosting is as flavorful as this one.  It has the tang of cream cheese, the sweet warmth of brown sugar and a little cinnamon spice.

Great ways to enjoy brown sugar cinnamon cream cheese frosting

• eat it on a spoon
• spread it over a cake
• spread it over a banana cake
• dip apple slices into it
• or pear slices
• or peaches, or bananas or grapes
• or, and this may be one of my favorite ideas, spread it over the bottom of a nice soft oatmeal cookie and cover with another cookie.  Smoosh and enjoy!

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Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting With Cinnamon

Author: Carlee

Servings: 12 Servings

Cream cheese frosting is always a hit in my book, but spike it with brown sugar and cinnamon and it really is a taste of heaven.

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Prep: 10 minutes mins

Cook: 0 minutes mins

Total: 10 minutes mins

Equipment

• Spread Kindness Like Frosting Pullover Hoodie
• Hand Mixer

Ingredients 

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• ▢ 12 ounces cream cheese softened
• ▢ 3 Tablespoons butter
• ▢ 2¼ cups powdered sugar
• ▢ ⅓ cup light brown sugar packed
• ▢ ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ▢ ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ 1 pinch salt

Instructions 

• In large mixing bowl, beat together cream cheese and butter until it is light and fluffy.  Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl a few times and make sure there are no lumps. 
  12 ounces cream cheese, 3 Tablespoons butter
• Add remaining ingredients and mix on low until combined. Turn mixer speed up to medium and beat for 2 minutes. 
  2¼ cups powdered sugar, ⅓ cup light brown sugar, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 pinch salt
• Spread over cooled cake, cookies, or use as a dip for fruit. 

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Nutrition Information

Serving: 1Serving | Calories: 225kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 125mg | Sugar: 26g

“Cooking With Carlee” is not a dietitian or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and other nutritional values can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.

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