Recipes With Leftover Cream Cheese Frosting

When frosting a batch of twenty-four cupcakes, I always end up with one unfrosted cupcake (fine by me as I love plain cake) or gobs of leftover frosting in the bowl. Leftover frosting gets pawned off to be used as a vegetable dip (That makes it healthy, right?) or to be slathered on crackers. Once, I even made a cupcake entirely of frosting(Gross or awesome? Your call!). Sometimes, I freeze my leftover frosting. In my freezer, it typically dies behind a carton of ice cream and a bag of bones Jonathan plans to use for soup stock. I now have a new solution for leftover frosting – use it to make leftover frosting cookies!

BTW – I give all my leftovers a similar treatment. See what I do with leftover cake and leftover cornbread, and how I make bostock from leftover hot dog buns.

Long-time readers will remember when I wrote about the apron from The Smart Baker [paid link]. I still wear and love it!

Things You Never Thought To Do With Leftover Cream Cheese Frosting

Not only does The Smart Baker make excellent products, but Stephanie, one of the founders of The Smart Baker, writes a wonderful food blog called Ice Cream Before Dinner (I like how she thinks!). She was the winner of the most recent round of Cupcake Roulette on the Cupcake Project Facebook page; I spin the virtual wheel and if I pick your blog, I bake something inspired by it. I read (OK, I skimmed) Stephanie’s entire blog. Like me, she’s been writing since 2007, so it was quite the task. There were so many great recipes to choose from, but I got most excited about her post, Frosting in My Cookie Dough. In that post, Stephanie explains how to make cookies using leftover frosting! I had to try the technique!

I experimented with both leftover vanilla bean buttercream frosting(a basic American-style buttercream) and leftover chocolate cream cheese frosting and made cookies by simply adding an egg, flour, baking soda, and salt to each variety. These will not be the best cookies that you have ever eaten, but if you put a plate of them on the counter, they will disappear. Any cookie is better than no cookie. Truth!

The cookies have a cake-like texture and take on the flavor of the frosting they are made from. I haven’t yet tried this technique with a meringue buttercream, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. I’m making one later this week so I’ll give it a go and update this post. Check back!

The Best Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

Update 7/14/14: I tried this with a meringue buttercream. Because the meringue buttercream isn’t as sweet as American buttercream, the cookies weren’t as sweet. We all still enjoyed them, but they tasted more like sweet biscuits. If you want a sweeter cookie and are using a meringue buttercream, I’d suggest adding a touch of sugar to the cookie recipe.

If the frosting recipe contains salt, you can leave that out of the cookie recipe. Feel free to play around with the recipe by adding chocolate chips or other mix-ins to the cookies.

Calories: 82 kcal | Carbohydrates: 14 g | Protein: 1 g | Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 13 mg | Sodium: 93 mg | Potassium: 19 mg | Sugar: 5 g | Vitamin A: 20 IU | Calcium: 4 mg | Iron: 0.5 mgThese chocolate truffles are absurdly easy to make, and are idea for using up any leftover cream cheese frosting that you may have lurking in your firdge fridge.

Cream Cheese Filled Recipes To Use Up The Rest Of That Leftover Tub

If, like me, you are an occasional baker it can be hard to get the quantities right. I nearly always make too much frosting, as I am never sure l how much I need to cover, top or fill different sizes of cakes, so I tend to err on the side of caution and make too much. Invariably it would sit a bowl in the fridge and I’d dive in with a teaspoon from time to time, or I’d put in the freezer for another day and forget all about it until I needed the space for something else.

These truffles are everything a truffle should be, soft, moreish and thanks to being rolled in cocoa powder they are not too sweet. Infinitely better than eating leftover frosting by the spoonful and a great way to prevent food waste. In fact they are so good that you will now deliberately make extra frosting next time you make a cake.

You don’t actually need a recipe for these – simply weigh the frosting, melt half the amount of dark chocolate, stir it in, adding some dried fruit, roll into balls, dust with cocoa powder, chill and enjoy. What could be easier?

Leftover Cream Cheese Frosting Chocolate Truffles

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Healthy Cream Cheese Frosting

If, like me, you are an occasional baker it can be hard to get the quantities right. I nearly always make too much frosting, as I am never sure l how much I need to cover, top or fill different sizes of cakes, so I tend to err on the side of caution and make too much. Invariably it would sit a bowl in the fridge and I’d dive in with a teaspoon from time to time, or I’d put in the freezer for another day and forget all about it until I needed the space for something else.

These truffles are everything a truffle should be, soft, moreish and thanks to being rolled in cocoa powder they are not too sweet. Infinitely better than eating leftover frosting by the spoonful and a great way to prevent food waste. In fact they are so good that you will now deliberately make extra frosting next time you make a cake.

You don’t actually need a recipe for these – simply weigh the frosting, melt half the amount of dark chocolate, stir it in, adding some dried fruit, roll into balls, dust with cocoa powder, chill and enjoy. What could be easier?

Leftover Cream Cheese Frosting Chocolate Truffles

Tried this recipe? If you try this recipe please tag # on Instagram or Twitter. It is amazing for me when for me when you make one of my recipes and I really do love to see them. You can also share it on my Facebook page. Please pin this recipe to Pinterest too! Thanks for reading Fuss Free Flavours!

• Unless stated otherwise cup conversions have been made with an online tool. For accuracy please check with your favoured conversion tool. We recommend buying inexpensive digital kitchen scales.

This blog is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. All our thoughts and opinions are our own and we are not paid for or mandated to provide a positive review.

Healthy Cream Cheese Frosting