Best Nutty Cream Cheese Frosting Recipes

NUTTY CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

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For those who can't get enough nuts. Excellent on applesauce, pumpkin and carrot cakes.

Provided by GINGER P

Categories Desserts Frostings and Icings Cream Cheese

Yield 15

Number Of Ingredients 4

Ingredients

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
¼ cup butter, softened
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 cup chopped pecans

Steps:

In a large bowl, beat softened butter and cream cheese until well blended.
Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat until creamy and add chopped nuts. Spread on cooled cake.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 264.1 calories, Carbohydrate 34.8 g, Cholesterol 24.6 mg, Fat 14 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 1.9 g, SaturatedFat 5.7 g, Sodium 66.3 mg, Sugar 33.1 g

ITALIAN CREAM CAKE WITH NUTTY CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

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From Good Housingkeeping Magazine online. "This recipe was in our paper this past weekend. Thought I'd share...CMAMY"

Provided by Nana Lee

Categories Dessert

Time 55m

Yield 1 3 layer cake

Number Of Ingredients 15

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened
1/2 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
5 large eggs, separated
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup chopped pecans
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 (16 ounce) package powdered sugar, sifted
chopped pecans or coconut

Steps:

CAKE:.
Set oven at 350°F.
Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy; gradually add sugar, beating well.
Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
Add vanilla, beat until blended.
Combine flour and soda; add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
Beat at low speed until blended after each addition.
Stir in coconut.
Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form, fold into batter.
Pour batter into three greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
Bake for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans and cool on wire racks.
FROSTING:.
Place pecans in a shallow pan; bake at 350 degrees for 5-10 minutes or until roasted, stirring occasionally. Cool.
Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
Add sugar, beating at low speed until blended.
Beat at high speed until smooth; stir in pecans.
Yield: about 4 cups.
ASSMBLE:.
Spread Nutty Cream Cheese Frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake. Garnish with pecans if desired.
Yield: one (3-layer) cake.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 9191, Fat 497.8, SaturatedFat 229.4, Cholesterol 1804.8, Sodium 4046, Carbohydrate 1115.9, Fiber 20.4, Sugar 898.3, Protein 96.9

NUTTY CREAM CHEESE AMERETTO FROSTING

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This is the frosting I made to go with the Over The Top Italian Cream Birthday Cake that I made for my husband 3 months after his birthday had passed. He was really impressed, and really likes the nuts that were IN the frosting instead of on the outside of the cake ON THE FROSTING. It is easy and the addition of the Almond...

Provided by Rose Mary Mogan

Categories Other Desserts

Time 10m

Number Of Ingredients 6

Ingredients

1 lb cream cheese, softened to room temperature
2 stick butter softened to room temperature
2 lb powdered sugar
1 Tbsp amaretto liqueur
2 tsp almond extract
2 c chopped nuts ( i used half pecans & half walnuts)

Steps:

1. Prepare the frosting by adding the softened butter and cream cheese to a medium size bowl, and beat till creamy, then add about half of the powdered sugar and beat again till well mixed.
2. Then add remaining powdered sugar, almond extract, and amaretto, beat till incorporated into frosting.
3. Then with a spatula fold in the chopped nuts and stir till nuts are blended into frosting. Then frost cake or cup Cakes as desired.