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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Tara says
May 21, 2019 at 2:45 pmLove 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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Deb Butler says
May 13, 2019 at 8:10 pmLove this recipe. How can I make it chocolate?
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JADE KUHN says
May 19, 2019 at 4:28 pmYou could add half cup of cocoa powder!
That’s what I do!
Amanda says
March 9, 2019 at 9:02 amWould this work with a dairy free butter ?
Holly says
November 14, 2018 at 4:33 pmHave made this several times and it’s my go to when I need something sweet!
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Irene says
November 13, 2018 at 1:18 pmThis 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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Lizy says
October 15, 2018 at 5:14 pmSo 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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judi coleman says
September 20, 2018 at 4:42 pmI just made this to put on top of my zucchini bread and it was delicious
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Mellissa Sevigny says
September 21, 2018 at 9:33 amSounds amazing! 🙌
Dawn says
September 8, 2018 at 6:51 pmThank 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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Jennifer Sampson says
August 28, 2018 at 11:03 pmTaste 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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Christie says
September 17, 2018 at 6:02 pmI have found that the butter being completely soft is the key to reduce the grittiness.
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Anna says
July 25, 2018 at 1:34 pmCream cheese has carbs how can you say zero?
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Aly says
February 9, 2019 at 9:20 amIt 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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Madlyn says
June 26, 2018 at 6:31 pmI 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!
Elora Forshee says
June 22, 2018 at 10:47 amThis 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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MOONYEAN C LEFEVRE says
June 5, 2018 at 10:25 amMade 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!
Beckey Lee says
May 30, 2018 at 7:04 pmLove 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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Courtney Benton says
May 30, 2018 at 5:11 pmMy favorite frosting!!! ❤️
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Cynthia M says
May 13, 2018 at 6:25 pmWhat 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!
Helen says
April 16, 2018 at 11:06 amUsed this on avocado brownies. Sooooo yummy. The ULTIMATE fat bomb!!! Thank you so much. Will use this for a variety of things!!!
Hanna says
March 30, 2018 at 12:46 pmAwesome recipe! Adapted it for a single serving and had it with strawberries! Yumm!!!
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Jo says
May 18, 2018 at 8:38 pm@anna can you share your amounts for single serve? :)
Viv says
March 9, 2018 at 12:11 amHow do I convert this into a chocolate cream cheese frosting?
Mellissa Sevigny says
March 9, 2018 at 8:59 amAdd 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!
Pauline says
March 7, 2018 at 11:22 amWould this frosting work for piping decorations?
Mellissa Sevigny says
March 8, 2018 at 5:26 pmYes it should work great for that!
Suzie Q says
February 16, 2018 at 1:10 amI’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?
Dani says
February 15, 2018 at 3:13 pmCan you share what cream cheese you use? I have never found any that are careless…thanks!
Jessica says
February 4, 2018 at 9:22 pmSuper 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??
Mellissa Sevigny says
February 5, 2018 at 10:22 amMFP is notoriously inaccurate – perhaps it’s your sweetener of choice? Or a problem with their database.
Viviana says
February 17, 2018 at 2:07 amThe 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.
Ryan says
March 4, 2018 at 8:09 amLooking 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.
Mellissa Sevigny says
March 5, 2018 at 8:15 amMFP 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.
Sam says
January 9, 2018 at 11:25 pmCan this frosting be frosted on a cake and left out over night? I’m wanting to frost a cake the night before the party.
Jill S says
December 25, 2017 at 6:21 pmI 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!
Nancy says
December 22, 2017 at 7:21 pmI 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! 🤗😮🤗😋🤣😂😅
clg says
November 23, 2017 at 12:22 amDoes 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 :/
Mellissa Sevigny says
November 23, 2017 at 8:22 amI think you’d have to do it in a blender or food processor to get it fine enough, I haven’t tried it though.
Tara says
November 15, 2017 at 11:49 pmThis 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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