This Keto Cream Cheese Frosting is the perfect topping for low carb cakes and muffins, but also makes a delicious filling for keto crepes, fat bombs, truffles, etc. This low carb cream cheese frosting is easy, delicious, and versatile!
Raise your hands if you think the best part of any cake is the frosting! ? Seriously though, cake without frosting is a missed opportunity amirite? My first frosting love is chocolate, but it’s followed very closely by cream cheese frosting!
First – it tastes amazing. Second, and more importantly, it’s super versatile and pairs well with any spice cake, red velvet cake, quick breads, etc.
Since I have some Keto cake recipes coming up soon that feature this Keto Cream Cheese Frosting, I figured I’d post the recipe here separately for quick reference.
If you don’t feel like making a cake to go with this Keto Cream Cheese Frosting it’s no problem. You can literally eat it with a spoon whenever you have a sweet craving or need some extra fat in your diet!
Actually I wonder if you could blend this into coffee? I’m just riffing here but it could technically work – almost like bullet proof! As soon as I make a fresh batch imma try it, but if you beat me to it let us know if it works!
Keto Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe Video ??
Ok, that’s all I’ve got for today! Stay tuned for the Pumpkin Spice Sheet Cake later this week that features this Keto Cream Cheese Frosting – together they are ???!
Keto Cream Cheese Frosting – Low Carb
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 2 cups 1x
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This Keto Cream Cheese Frosting is perfect on low carb cakes, but also makes great fat bombs, crepe filling, or even truffles!
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
- 2/3 cup powdered erythritol (I used Swerve)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (no sugar added)
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, cream the butter and cream cheese together with a mixer until fully combined.
- Add the sweetener and vanilla extract and beat slowly until the sweetener is incorporated so it doesn’t get blown into the air.
- Once the sweetener is incorporated, beat on high for 2 minutes or until fluffy.
- Use immediately, or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week, or in the freezer for up to 3 months. Then bring to room temperature before using.
Notes
The organic cream cheese I used when making this originally has less than 1g carbs per ounce so the entire recipe whipped came out to less than .5g per serving. Since most people are using Philly or other store brands with 2g carbs per ounce, I’ve updated the nutrition info to show 1g carbs per serving.
- Category: Keto Desserts
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 Tbsp
- Calories: 100
- Fat: 11g
- Carbohydrates: 1g
- Protein: 1g
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The icing is very good and easy to work with. Thank you for a quick easy recipe for frosting and much needed addition to red velvet keto cupcakes.
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Hi!
Can you use shortening instead of butter?
Thanks
I think the flavor would be different but theoretically yes.
Just made this today and put it on my zero net carb cinnamon bagel. So good! Thank you for making such an easy, delicious sweet treat recipe. I will be using this quite often!
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Is the butter salted unsalted?
Either will work but unsalted if you have it.
Why is it so liquidy? How much exactly is 8 ounces ='(
it is not fluffy at all. Why can’t you do measurements in cups or tbsp instead of ounces?
Make it easy for viewers. Why Why why ??!!!!!! I put in cream cheese (1 cup) and then 1/2 cup butter as described with 2/3 cup sweetener. Yet its not fluffy. Its like LIQUID. WHAT DID YOU DO? Why are you WASTING my time? =(
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Butter is meant to be softened, but not liquid. If your frosting is too soft then put it back in the refrigerator for 30 minutes or so and then try whipping it again. Ounces is standard measurement for cream cheese. 8 ounces would be one block, and usually the ounces are marked on the side of the container. I don’t know the exact cup measurement but 8 ounces of cream cheese is probably closer to 1 and 1/3 cups.
@JT Why are you so rude, why why why? weight measure is so much more accurate, faster with much less clean up. If you really need to convert, it’s easy to google. nothing in the recipe is liquid so how can it be liquidy if there is no liquid to begin with unless you melted the butter which you are not supposed to do.
I love this frosting a little TOO much! I like to dip pecans into it. Wow. It is dangerously good!!!
That does sound amazing, and dangerous! I’m going to try to unsee this and make sure I don’t have any pecans in the house ha ha!
Love it! My husband is doing Keto with me and his favorite frosting is butter cream. He’s going to love I found your recipe. I had to sample it first of course. It’s pretty awesome on low carb cream cheese cookies! Thank you for creating and sharing.
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Love this recipe. How can I make it chocolate?
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You could add half cup of cocoa powder!
That’s what I do!
Would this work with a dairy free butter ?
Have made this several times and it’s my go to when I need something sweet!
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This recipe was phenomenal! I use Anthony’s granulated erythritol and ground it in my coffee grinder to a powder. I’ve also used it in my Lil Ninja and it works well, too. The coffee grinder is best, though, or a very strong blender. I added a few drops of liquid stevia to balance the flavor and try to keep it from crystalizing. Room temperature cream cheese and butter really helped in that regard.
I also used 1/2 tsp vanilla and 1/2 tsp maple extract as I was adding the pecans and thought the combination would be perfect for your Pumpkin Spice Sheet cake – and it was!!
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So easy, so tasty, so keto! Love this, will be using it for future recipes where I need some tasty fat. Thank you for making keto easier for all of us.
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I just made this to put on top of my zucchini bread and it was delicious
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Sounds amazing! ?
Thank you for this recipe, it was great! I only had about 1/4 cup of Swerve left so I added a couple Stevia packets. Still tasted good. Think more will end up on a spoon than the muffins though :)
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Taste great! But any suggestions on how to not make it be gritty? I used the swerve powdered confectioner sugar. I can’t get it to mix smoothly. Any suggestions?
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I have found that the butter being completely soft is the key to reduce the grittiness.
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Cream cheese has carbs how can you say zero?
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It says 1g carbs per serving. Although if you count sugar alcohols it would be more due to the erithritol. I prefer the frosting with a little less erithritol, like 1/2 cup to taste more like cheese cake and make a swirl with my keto chocolate bombs
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I love this frosting! It has become a staple for me (and has salvaged quite a few otherwise recipe “fails”).
Sometimes, I have just a dollop of frosting with berries on top for dessert! So good!
This is my go-to keto frosting recipe! I’ve used it on fruit, cupcakes, cinnamon roles, and a spoon and it never fails me!
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Made this yesterday….taste just like the REAL deal except without the GI effect from real sugar…love it. I made them into freezer fat bombs. WIN WIN!
Love this recipe! I like to use it for fat bombs – but it’s pretty great on any “sweet” that needs frosting.. I have even put it on top of coffee.
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My favorite frosting!!! ❤️
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What brand of cream cheese did you use and what brand of butter did you use to come up with Cal 100 and carb 0 for 2 tbsp. Even if I use Fat Free Great Value Cream Cheese (the lowest) and organic butter I come with cal 165 and 2 carb. Can you substitute butter or anything else? And instead of Swerve can I just use Stevia? Your recipes sounds delicious, appreciate any help you can give. Thank you!
Used this on avocado brownies. Sooooo yummy. The ULTIMATE fat bomb!!! Thank you so much. Will use this for a variety of things!!!
Awesome recipe! Adapted it for a single serving and had it with strawberries! Yumm!!!
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@anna can you share your amounts for single serve? :)
How do I convert this into a chocolate cream cheese frosting?
Add chocolate? Haha, couldn’t help myself. I think 1/3 cup of good quality cocoa powder should do the trick (although you can play with it until you get the amount you want) but you may also need to adjust the sweetener to offset the bitterness. Let us know how it turns out!
Would this frosting work for piping decorations?
Yes it should work great for that!
I’d love to make this this weekend but all I have on hand right now is Sweet Leaf stevia drops. Do you think that would work?
Can you share what cream cheese you use? I have never found any that are careless…thanks!
Super yummy!! My question. I ran the recipe through My Fitness Pal, and the carbs are insane per serving. But you show 0 carbs. Any thoughts/help??
MFP is notoriously inaccurate – perhaps it’s your sweetener of choice? Or a problem with their database.
The reason I think it’s because erythritol is sweet, but it doesn’t raise the blood sugar level ad it is not absorbed by the body, so they are not considered calories as part of a low carb lifestyle. Also, keto buttercream means it’ll be high fat which in fairness it’s lots of calories, but they push your body into ketosis, and so it’s low carbs but high calories from fat.
Looking at MFP on my own, I found that there are two kinds of Erythritol: regular, and zero carb. The regular you’re looking at a massive amount of carbs, but if you get the zero carb, it’ll be…0 carbs. Other than that, the only thing with carbs was the cream cheese at 9 carbs for 8oz, which is basically nothing. The only downside I’m finding is that it’s 1600 calories for the two cups of prepared frosting.
MFP is wrong and that’s why people get hugely inaccurate numbers when they use it. There are not two kinds of erythritol – MFP just has it listed both ways because it contains sugar alcohol which is where the carbs come from but they don’t impact blood sugar and are not generally counted in the net carbs in a recipe.
Can this frosting be frosted on a cake and left out over night? I’m wanting to frost a cake the night before the party.
I used this recipe for icing low carb chocolate cupcakes–but I added unsweetened baking chocolate! I thought I was going to die from happiness!! I think I’ll try it as far bombs next. Thanks for all you do to keep us low carbers happy and healthy!
I cannot wait to get your cookbook!
I just found the recipe for Pierogies!!! Oh, you have no idea how my heart raced!!!
Do you think you’ll do a pre~ Sale? My name needs to be first! ???????
Does it work to take a granulated sweetener and run it through a processor or mortar/pestle to make it “powdered”? Our shops here in Aus never seem to have powdered. I read somewhere you could do this, but it failed to produce a proper frosting when I tried :/
I think you’d have to do it in a blender or food processor to get it fine enough, I haven’t tried it though.
This recipe is the bomb. I just made it tonight on half of my husband who is making me a birthday cake tomorrow. I fell in love immediately. I do my best to just stay away from anything “sweet” but hey, it’s my b-day! Thanks for this!
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