ORANGE CARDAMOM CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Jul 30, 2022October 19, 20221 60

We Believe in Home Cooks

by Anne Milneckin Dessert

Time: 5 min

Makes 16 oz

Rating

Ingredients

Mastering homemade frosting is time well spent. But there are times when time is not on your side. That’s when we channel our inner Ina Garten – store bought is fine – and turn to convenient products and make them our own – we even wrote a blog about it!

This frosting is the perfect marriage of citrus and spice. Orange Blossom Water, a little zest and just the right amount of Ground Cardamom transform a tub of frosting into a company-worthy dessert topping. We dolloped it on carrot cake muffins. It’s delicious on banana bread. Store bought pound cake? Ina would approve.

Instructions

1.	A note about the frosting: we used non-whipped cream cheese frosting. The whipped varieties are 12 oz in volume. The non-whipped varieties of tub frosting are 16 oz.
2.	Scrape the frosting into the bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attachment. Whip on high until light and fluffy. Whip in the salt and ground cardamom; then whip in the extract and Orange Blossom Water. Add in the orange zest and whip to incorporate
3.	Taste and adjust with more Orange Blossom Water - take care because a little goes a long way.