This last weekend, my friend celebrated her birthday and I volunteered to make the cake for her party. I asked her what kind of cake she wanted, and she gave me three ideas: she likes lots of frosting, strawberries, and she has never had a red velvet cake before. I, of course, decided to take all three of those things to heart and make a cake that had all three of those suggestions.
For a long time now, I’ve been desperately wanting to make a frosting with white chocolate in it. So, I selfishly made that one of the requirements as well 
But! Oh boy am a sucker for red velvet cakes with cream cheese frosting on them. Once I was putting the whole design together, I realized that I should either pick my white chocolate frosting, or my cream cheese frosting…and I couldn’t pick!
That’s when the idea struck me that I should just combine the two.
I tried searching for what I was looking for online and couldn’t find exactly what I wanted, so I created this recipe. And let me tell you: it’s a good one.
Unofficial Disclaimer: I am not a cake decorator. If I was, I would work in a bakery Plus, I had to travel many miles with the cakes, so they fell apart just a bit. Appearance: 2 stars. Taste: 5 stars!
At the party, I got so many compliments on the frosting! This seriously is not your average frosting. You’ll just have to taste it to believe it.
I don’t normally prefer buttercreams (they’re just okay), but this one is at the top of my list.
Confession: I didn’t know what to do with the leftovers right away. So, today I made waffles and I didn’t feel like putting syrup on them, and instead I spread a bit of the frosting on them (butter + cream cheese + chocolate + sugar) = best (and sweetest) waffles I have EVER had! End confessional.
White Chocolate Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients:
3/4 Cup Butter (not margarine), softened
1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese, softened
1/4 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream
1/4 tsp. vanilla
6 oz. White Chocolate*
Pinch Salt
3-4 Cups Powdered Sugar
Directions:
1. Cream together the butter and cream cheese until smooth
2. Add the Whipping Cream and Vanilla
3. Melt the white chocolate in the microwave on 50% power, stirring every 30 seconds until melted.
4. Stir in the white chocolate.
5. Mix the salt and powdered sugar together and beat into the wet mixture until smooth.
6. Add more powdered sugar as needed until you reach your desired consistency.
*Use a high quality white chocolate (such as bakers chocolate). Do not use white chocolate chips, especially if you plan to color the frosting, as they will leave small wax droplets in the frosting the cannot be colored.
Oh, how yummy does that look. Definitely have to give it a try this weekend!
Have a lovely day.
Thanks Helle! It will sooo be worth your time. I can’t even express how good it is, you’ll just have to see for yourself!
You had me at “chocolate”!
Haha, I would have been the same way! Chocolate is the best!!
I’ve never had white chocolate cream cheese frosting – yours looks delicious! LOVE the pics too.
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YUM!! The cake you put it on is seriously so adorable! Thanks for linking up to Thrifty Thursday!
Thank you Ruth!! It’s actually REALLY easy to do. The hardest part of it was slicing the strawberries evenly, after that was done, putting them on was super simple! Hope to see you back soon!
White chocolate must have been such a surprising flavor in the frosting and I love how you decorated with the strawberries. Your friend is very lucky. Thank you for sharing your cake with us on foodie friday.
The white chocolate was a perfect accent! (have you ever had a white chocolate strawberry? They’re decadent!) Thank you so much!
Buttercream is my favorite frosting and with the addition of white chocolate, it must be fantastic.
Thank you Lulu! I hope you get to try it – I’m sure you would love it if you love buttercream!
Thanks so much for sharing your awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday. Have a great weekend and hope to see you soon!
Miz Helen
That sounds absolutely delicious!! Thank you for sharing on Foodie Friday
Thanks Adelina!!
Wow Lori, looks delicious! We had a red velvet/white chocolate cream cheese for our wedding and I’ve wanted to make it ever since! Can’t wait to try
Hey Alexi! That’s so much fun that you had this for you wedding (I bet it was delicous!!) If you want to make this without the cream cheese, to better replicate what was at your wedding, you can easily do that as well. Just omit the cream cheese and either add a bit more whipping cream or omit some powdered sugar, and it should be good. I hope you like this recipe, and I hope you and your hubby are doing well!
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