Sugar Free Cream Cheese Frosting (no butter)

This Sugar Free Cream Cheese Frosting (no butter) takes about five minutes to put together.

Made with no added sugar and no added butter, this cream cheese frosting is fluffy, velvety, and full of cream cheese flavor, making it perfect for your next homemade cake or cupcakes.

What makes cream cheese frosting so good?

Cream cheese frosting has a rich and creamy texture along with a tangy and sweet flavor, making it a perfect balance for baked goodies such as carrot cake or Red Velvet Cupcakes.

I like that it takes just four simple ingredients to make this sugar free frosting!

Have you tried my recipe for Sugar Free Cream Cheese Pound Cake?

That sugar free pound cake is moist, buttery, and sweet, making it perfect for enjoying as a delicious dessert. Both this recipe for frosting and that recipe for pound cake are great tasting recipes that are made with cream cheese and have no added sugar.

Sugar free powdered sugar is used to make this frosting recipe. You can find sugar free powdered sugar here.

Why you will love this no butter frosting recipe.

This no-butter cream cheese frosting is fluffy, velvety, and light. It also has a smooth texture and just the right balance of sweetness but, without the sugar.

Here is what else you will like about this recipe.

• It takes just four ingredients and five minutes to make this frosting.
• The ingredients are basic ingredients that you may already have on hand.
• Personalizing this recipe is as easy as adding a few drops of food coloring or swapping out your extract with another extract such as lemon extract or maple extract.
• This tasty frosting works great on about anything baked from cupcakes to cakes.

Ingredients you will need to make sugar free cream cheese frosting.

• Cream Cheese. Full fat cream cheese adds the best moisture and texture to this recipe. Your cream cheese should be softened to room temperature.
• Sugar Free Powdered Sugar. Granular or other kinds of sugar alternatives will not work in this recipe.
• Vanilla Extract. Added for flavor.
• Heavy Cream. Also known as heavy whipping cream. Other creams may not work as there needs to be a certain percentage of milk fat for the structure of the frosting.

Expert Tip 👉 Adding a drop or two of food coloring can make this frosting perfect for a holiday or celebration cake or cupcake.

How to make easy cream cheese frosting

Servings: frosting for 24 cupcakes

Prep Time: 5 minutes .
Servings: about 2 cups or frosting for 24 cupcakes. .

1. Cream Cheese. Beat your softened cream cheese on low to medium speed until it is smooth and creamy. Then stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
2. Sugar Alternative. Add the sugar alternative along with the vanilla extract to the mixing bowl and continue to beat on low-medium speed until the mixture is fluffy and light (about two to three minutes).
3. Heavy Cream. Stop your mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Then set the speed to low and slowly add the heavy cream to the mixing bowl, adding about a quarter cup at a time. Once the heavy cream has been added you can bump up the speed to medium and continue to beat the frosting until you have a light and airy consistency or the consistency desired (about a minute).

Tips for making the best

Using a full-fat cream cheese is essential to the success of this recipe. Full fat cream cheese has the structure needed to hold up as a frosting.

More helpful tips for you.

1. For a 'sweeter' frosting, you can add in additional powdered alternative (up to two cups), balancing it out with heavy cream (up to one cup).
2. If your frosting seems to be too 'sweet' try adding a teaspoon of salt.
3. Because of the structure of this frosting, it may be too thick to use for piping.