When you need to host a big party, you can double this fantastic, simple dish. Excellent for big-game gatherings or tailgating. It should have a generally dip-like texture. If not, increase the mayo or salsa.
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 3 cups |
Ingredients
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- ¼ cup butter
- 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon maple flavored extract
Instructions
- Cream together the cheese and butter or margarine. Stir in the confectioner’s sugar and flavorings. Mix well.
Reviews
My family really liked the hint of maple flavoring in this icing recipe. I paired it with “Happy Birthday Cake” recipe from this site. Thanks for sharing!
Maple Icing by Rachel. A little too much for one cake so I double it & divide by three – to make three rightsize portions. It also gives me an excuse to make cake. No losing here! Note4Me: Some added more maple — 3/4 to 1 1/4t maple & less 1/2t vanilla.
This has to be my very favorite icing ever! It is sweet but not too sweet and the the sour cream gives it the perfect tang ever. Since I made this for my Mom she loved it and I started getting requests to make this on every birthday cookie! One thing I changed was instead of using the maple extract I used about double the amount of maple syrup and still tasted great!
I used 3 12 cups of powdered sugar. I also put a tablespoon of orange zest. I used the icing for carrot cake and it tasted super.
I had to add some milk and changed from maple to lemon extract. Very good.
Very pleased with this cream cheese frosting. Perfect combination of ingredients. Taking the advice of Naples34102 I used this frosting on the Pumpkin Spice Cake 1 and everything turned out delicious.
I made it as written. It was delicious!! I used it to ice a salted caramel chip cake. Will for sure make it again. Thanks for the recipe!
I loved it!!!!! It was so good!!!!!
What a wonderful frosting with a lovely creamy texture. I wanted more maple flavor so I used only 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract and upped the maple extract to one full teaspoon. I also used only 3 1/2 cups of confectioner’s sugar to achieve the perfect consistency (for me). This was wonderful spread on my golden maple-walnut sheet cake. I sprinkled some chopped toasted walnuts on top. Delicious!
DONT FORGET THE BACON!! For my husbands birthday I made cupcakes with this frosting and a crispy piece of bacon on top of each, right up his ally! (I got the idea from my local bakery) Everyone else was skeptical (I had other cupcakes w just chocolate frosting) but everyone was curious about the maple-bacon cupcakes, and my poor hubby had none left over. A hit! Something different! And something that I will be making again!
Really good recipe. I used 3 1/4 cups of confectioners sugar only because of personal preference. I enjoy tasting the tangy flavor of the cream cheese. I used it to frost brownie cookies.
This is a great recipe. I was having trouble finding icing since we now eat healthier so I was able to make this using organic products. I chose this based on the reviews and it was not a disappointment. It was also very easy. I am saving this one.
This was absolutely delicious!
4/1/13 … https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8112/maple-icing/ … ‘Can’t believe (almost :D) I haven’t reviews this! I renamed it “Honey Hush Maple Frosting”! YUM. It’s a little too much so I double it & divide by three – to make three rightsize portions. It also gives me an excuse to make cake. No losing here! Note4Me: Some added more maple — 3/4 to 1 1/4t maple & less 1/2t vanilla.
Amazing maple frosting recipe!!
My husband wanted “something different” for Christmas dessert this year. He requested a pumpkin cake with maple icing. As odd as this sounds it turned out great. I used the pumpkin cake recipe from this site but substituted maple flavoring for most of the vanilla and used this icing (but I used more of the maple flavor than the recipe called for). It turned out very nice. It is a keeper! Has me thinking about what else it might taste good with? Pancake cupcakes anyone?
Made this frosting for a baby shower on top of pumpkin spice cupcakes. I added crystalized ginger on the tops of the cupcakes ( I uploaded the picture with the 2 dozen cupcakes in the cake box). Everyone loved the frosting.
My boyfriend, who is a chef, and myself, both have a guilty pleasure for maple donuts. So when I set out to make him a cake, I thought I’d see if something like maple icing existed and stumbled upon this recipe and paired it with a basic spice cake. It was wonderful and went perfectly with the spice cake. He said it’s his new favorite frosting flavor! (Mine too!)
Absloutely love this one!!! Went perfectly on the maple banana bread that I made into muffins. This was the perfect consistency for piping and was extremely easy to make.
Absolutely perfect. Just what I needed for the top of a Maple Cake I made today. I frosted the top of my cake, then sprinkled the top with chopped pecans. This was wonderful to work with. NOTE: It’s important that you leave your cream cheese and butter out to come up to room temperature a bit so it’s easier to cream. Nothing worse than trying to cream together cold cream cheese and butter.
What a wonderful recipe!! I was a little curious at first with no milk or cream to smooth and loosen it up, I even got the milk out. Turned out perfect without it and tasted great!!! Can’t thank you enough Rachael for this recipe!