# Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing

A recipe for making chocolate cream cheese icing, perfect for cakes or eating on its own.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2.5 cups icing sugar
- 0.5 cup cocoa powder
- 0.5 tsp espresso powder
- 0.5 cup softened butter, creamed well
- 1 block softened cream cheese
- 2 tsp vanilla extract

## Instructions

1. Whisk together the icing sugar, cocoa powder, and espresso powder until no white remains. Set aside.
2. Cream the softened butter.
3. Add the softened cream cheese to the butter and cream together.
4. Add approximately half of the dry cocoa powder and icing sugar mixture to the wet ingredients.
5. Add two teaspoons of vanilla extract.
6. Mix the ingredients together.
7. Add the rest of the dry cocoa and icing sugar mixture.
8. Scrape the bowl down really well before mixing further.

## Equipment

- whisk
- bowl

## Tips

- It's okay to make icing without a cake to frost.
- Taste the icing throughout the entire process and especially the completed product.
- Pre-clean your dishes.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CRz6HiUtM/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/138d928e-76a6-4e0a-92d7-6baf7ddda6a2
- Extracted: 2026-04-05

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