Cream Cheese Icing

“My kids wanted to surprise me on my birthday. So they made a three layer cake with cream cheese icing. Hurry! They shouted for me to run fast. The layers of their painstakingly decorated cake were sliding apart. They had tried to hold them together with toothpicks. But by the time I had gotten to the kitchen, it had turned into a zig-zagging spaceship with lit candles slipping everywhere. This is the recipe they used – and the good news, is that it is extremely good. However, much better suited for icing a 9 x 13 single layer sheet cake.”

Ingredients

2 (8 oz) packages of Philadelphia Cream Cheese; (softened room temperature – do not soften in microwave)

1 cup unsalted butter; softened room temperature

2 (1 LB) packages of powdered sugar

2 teasp Watkins vanilla

1 cup chopped pecans, coconut or walnuts (optional)

Instructions

Whip cream cheese and butter until ultra-creamy; about 4 minutes. Add powdered sugar. Beat until light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla and nuts. (Frosts one 9 x 13 cake layer). enJOY!