A lightened up cream cheese frosting perfect on cupcakes or your favorite cake recipe. This recipe frosts 2 (9-inch) round cake layers, 2 dozen cupcakes, 1 bundt cake, or a 9x13 inch cake. You could also use Splenda to lower the sugar if you are on a restricted sugar diet.
Low Fat Cream Cheese Frosting
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 16 • Old Points: 1.5 pts • Points+: 2 pts
Calories: 64.9 • Fat: 3.0 g • Carb: 8.0 g • Fiber: 2.0 g • Protein: 1.0 g • Sugar: 7.4 g
Cupcakes Servings: 24 • Old Points: 1 pt • Points+: 1 pt
Calories: 44.5 • Fat: 2.1 g • Carb: 5.5 g • Fiber: 0.0 g • Protein: 0.7 g • Sugar: 5.1 g
Ingredients:
- 8 oz 1/3 fat Philadelphia Cream Cheese
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Awesome Gina!!I'm always looking for a low pt frosting! I'm doing some baking today...I'll try it out and let ya know what I think =)Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteOMG. I L-O-V-E it. That's all there is to it. Wow. Yay! Yum!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recipe! I make carrot cake for my husband's birthday every August and love cream cheese frosting with maple syrup... This will work great with a little maple flavoring!
ReplyDeleteSo, instead of the powdered sugar you use 1 Cup Splenda?
ReplyDeleteI stopped eating a lot of frosting because of the sugar in it. I'll have to check this one out for sure.
ReplyDeleteIf you are using Splenda instead of sugar, I would start with 1/2 cup and taste it. If it needs more, add more until you get your desired sweetness.
ReplyDeleteI've used that recipe to make the weight watchers peanut butter butterfinger cake. It tastes so great!!
ReplyDeleteLow fat frosting?!?! There are no words for how much I love this site. :-)
ReplyDelete@Penny - I was just sent a complimentary agave nectar to try out, I will test it on this frosting and see how it tastes. Will lower the points even more if its good.
ReplyDeleteSince it's Autumn, I'm baking pumpkin spice cupcakes and using this frosting.
ReplyDeleteOne box spice cake mix
1 Cup canned plain pumpkin
1/2 cup water
mix ingredients and bake as directed. So moist and rich. I liked it even better than the soda recipe. DIVINE! the cupcakes are 2 points ea when you make 24 and I'm going to top it off with this frosting, which may add that one additional point. 3 point spice cupcake with frosting? Yum =) Life is Good...
SOunds great, I'll have to give it a try :)
ReplyDeleteHello - This is awesome! does Splendia make a powdered sugar substitute or did you mean take out the powdered sugar and use a substitute instead.
ReplyDelete@Stash, I don't think they make a powdered sugar but I'm not sure. I don't use Splenda often. I meant instead for those of you who prefer Splenda to sugar.
ReplyDeleteWe all love it, we used it on red velvet low fat cupcakes.
ReplyDeleteThis is GREAT. Question: could you add cocoa or bakers chocolate to make this a chocolate frosting? if so how much would you add?
ReplyDeleteI used 1/4 cup of Cadbury Cocoa... I think it tasted fine :-)
DeleteI went to try this recipe and thought I had vanilla but found out I only had almond, so I used that instead and still came out very good. I am going to put them on top of the diet coke cupcakes that I am also doing the first time. Can't wait yum.
ReplyDeleteI am making a new recipe for pumpkin bread I got from a friend. She made pumpkin butter and put it in the center of the muffins she made, and then frosted it with cream cheese frosting. I am going to use this frosting recipe for my pumpkin bread. I like it cause it doesn't have all the butter in it. I love butter but it doesn't love me!
ReplyDeleteThank you
For my halloween party that I am attending tonight i'm going to make some pumpkin muffins and top them with this! I hope they turn out FANTASTIC!
ReplyDeleteare the points the same for the new program??
ReplyDeleteomgee!!! this is the most amazing cream cheese frosting i have ever tasted! i made it with weight watchers cream cheese for a few extra points as well. thanks so much for a fab recipe & site! can't wait to try out more recipes...hugs!
ReplyDeleteDo you beat with an electric mixer or hand beat?
ReplyDeleteYep,made the mistake of using fat free cream cheese too! Liquid. Boo.....but I used it more like a drizzled glaze and poked holes in the cupcakes so I was able to salvage the taste. YUM!!! Used it on lemon cupcakes made with wild berry seltzer. Delish!!!!
ReplyDeleteOne packet of the cream cheese will be enough for 24 cupcakes?
ReplyDeleteOne would be enough depending on how much frosting you add to each one. If you like a lot of frosting, make 1 1/2 batch Of it.
ReplyDeletethanks Gina, "Anonymous Spice cake recipe", did you also add ingredients that the box calls for, or just water and pumpkin?
ReplyDeleteYou don't even need to add water to the spice cake mix...just pumpkin and cake mix! 12 cupcakes, 5 points+... but they are large!
ReplyDeleteWow! I just took the gingerbread men recipe and rolled it into a cake pan and backed it and then put on the cream cheese icing. It's AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!
ReplyDeleteThis Recipe Is Great! Im Only 11 And This Was Sooo Easy!
ReplyDeleteMaking blueberry cupcakes and I am going to frost with this recipe, but addinga little lemon extract :) Great recipe!!
ReplyDeleteTrying this on Betty Crocker Pumpkin Angel Food Cake. Will be putting ginger in the frosting too. Can't wait to try it. LOVE this site!!! Only thing I would improve is a recipe search that only included SkinnyTaste.
ReplyDeleteTried it with Splenda. If possible do a little more exercise to burn the few extra calories, and use powdered sugar instead.
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