Cream cheese icing?

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Dare I make this with Asda Smart Price cream cheese? Has anyone used it before or should I stick to trusty Philadelphia?

I have just made some Hummingbird Bakery Black Bottom Cupcakes, which are chocolate sponge cakes with a 'dollop' of cheesecake baked within. I used the cheapo cream cheese mentioned above, mixed with egg and sugar, which went so runny it was more of a drizzle than a dollop.

Thanks in advance.

Full fat? It'll be fine! It will taste more of the sugar than the cheaper cheese, the cheese being probably ok anyway.

Thanks, yes, it is full fat. I chjecked it against the Philadelphia and it's fat-per gram is similar.

I'll have a go!

I've tried making cream cheese icing with cheaper cream cheese, but it's never worked for me. Hope you have better luck! Let us know how it goes.

Top tip- just stir the icing in quickly, do not beat- it makes it go bizarrely runny if you beat it.

I do and it works but I do it by eye do more icing sugar means thicker icing.

cream cheese frosting with egg???

I make mine:

2 packages cheapy full fat cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 cups icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Yum.

Thanks for all your help, Hatti - the egg's not in the frosting, it's in the cheesecake 'dollop' in the cake.