Cream Cheese Mascarpone Frosting
Fluffy Cream Cheese Mascarpone Frosting is perfect for any cake, cupcakes, or for frosting cinnamon rolls! Use leftovers on graham crackers. We especially love it on banana cake, but it’s a melt-in-your-mouth kind of frosting.
Hands down, my favorite frosting is cream cheese. It is creamy and tangy enough to cut the richness and sweetness of all kinds of cakes. So you can say this Cream Cheese Mascarpone Frosting is now our go-to sweetness to add to cakes and cupcakes.
Cream Cheese Mascarpone Frosting
With the addition of mascarpone cheese, the frosting becomes a bit milder, making it great for cakes that are higher in acid and tanginess (like chocolate banana sour cream, or citrus cakes). But obviously it will go well with any cake or even cinnamon rolls!
Secret ingredient? A tiny pinch of kosher salt!
Why I love this recipe
- It goes well with nearly any flavor of dessert.
- Leftovers are great on graham cracker (oh, sweet nostalgia of being a kid).
- You can double the recipe, and keep in the fridge.
Gather these ingredients
- Cream cheese
- Mascarpone cheese
- Heavy cream
- Powdered sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Kosher salt
How to make Cream Cheese Mascarpone Frosting
- In a large bowl, combine the cream cheese, mascarpone, powdered sugar, vanilla, and salt.
- Beat on high until smooth and fluffy, adding heavy cream as needed.
- Refrigerate until ready to use.
Tips and substitutions:
- I recommend letting it sit about 15 minutes to soften before frosting your cake.
- You can always add different extracts to change up the flavor, like almond, maple, or lemon!
- Make sure the frosting is room temp so spreadable.
- Take the leftovers and make “graham cracker” snacks and store in the fridge. Best after-school treat.
- Double the trouble – double the recipe and keep some stored in the fridge for your next dessert.
Serving
Spread this frosting to our cinnamon rolls, this banana cake, or even this chunky apple bundt cake.
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Cream Cheese Mascarpone Frosting
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 8 oz mascarpone cheese, softened
- 2-3 TBSP heavy cream
- 1 ¾ c powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp kosher salt
Equipment
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine the cream cheese, mascarpone, powdered sugar, vanilla, and salt. Beat on high until smooth and fluffy, adding the heavy cream as needed.
- Refrigerate until ready to use; we recommend letting it sit about 15 minutes to soften before frosting the cake.
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Love this type of frosting but found that this is not enough for a 2-layer 9in cake. I need 1.5 of the recipe for that. Also reduced the sugar to 1/4 cup or leave it out completely otherwise this is way to sweet.
I used brown sugar to taste, adding little by little so that it is not too sweet (much less than 1 3/4 cup) and 2-3 Tbsp of spiced rum….everything else as it is in the recipe. It was great! Next time even more rum :)
Hello. Do you think this would work well with a red velvet cake or do you suggest rather going with the basic cream cheese frosting?
This frosting would be amazing on Red Velvet Cake!
I belong to a family of Lemon Heads. I make an everything Lemon Lemon Cake. I alter this recipe by reducig the Vanilla to 1 1/2 Tsp. Vanilla. Add 1 1/2 Tsp. Lemon Juice and zest of 1 lemon. More zest if you want more lemon flavor.
Hi! Thanks for sharing this great frosting recipe. I tried this last weekend for my guests & they loved it.