My mom loves red velvet cake and when I saw this recipe in Southern Living I knew I had to make it for her birthday. I just made the icing and wanted to hurry up and get it to you. It's delicious! I'll probably be making it several times over the holidays.
1 (8-oz) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 (2lb.) package powdered sugar (that's right- 2 packages of powdered sugar!)
2 tsp. peppermint extract (vanilla extract may be substituted)
Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at low speed until smooth. Add peppermint extract, beating until blended.
Southern Living used this icing on top of a three layer red velvet cake. I used it on a red velvet sheet cake and did not use all of the icing. I do intend to take a spoon and finish the icing off- I'm kidding.
Enjoy!
3 comments:
Hello! This is a very nice blog-- I was curious if you are open to anyone posting recipes. I would love to be a part of the posters for this. Please let me know if you would allow me to join you in posting easy meals. If not, that's cool too. I still think this is a great blog! Keep it up!
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Thanks so much for your interest in being a contributor to this blog. Unfortunatley, we are only allowing personal friends to post. I'm glad you are enjoying the recipes!
No worries. Thanks for doing this; it's really wonderful!
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