Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting
I'm so glad that everyone enjoyed my Gluten Free Cinnamon Bun Muffin recipe! I've received many reports that people are making them for Christmas morning. Here's the Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting to go along with buns.
4 ounces cream cheese, softened to room temperature
3 tbsp agave nectar
3 tbsp heavy cream
- To make frosting combine cream cheese and agave in a medium bowl until well blended
- Whip in heavy cream until frosting is nice and thick
- Spread over Cinnamon Bun Muffins
- Serve
Google Books has a sample of The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook
CafeMom just published a slideshow entitled "13 Cute Christmas Cookies from Mom Blogger" which featured my fave Double Chocolate Mocha Cookies. And Tina from Gluten Free Help has an interesting post up which features my Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies, in a gift jar! Head on over for the full story and recipe at glutenfreehelp.info. The fabulous Diane over at The W.H.O.L.E. Gang has her Friday Foodie Fix up and this week she's featuring almonds. She highlights The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook and is asking readers to submit their favorite recipe created with almonds.
This weeks Friday Freebie is Make It Fast, Cook It Slow
UPDATE: this giveaway has ended, the winner was Heather
Don't forget to enter last weeks giveaway which includes a signed copy of The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook
UPDATE: the big giveaway has ended, the winner was Liz
Posted on December 18, 2009 in condiments by Elana
other entries you may like: Marcona Almond Mayonnaise
or Key Lime Icing
or Mustard Marmalade Dressing
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i love cook books. especially if GF. thank you
I want this cookbook!!! If I don't win, I am buying one.
Love. Her. Recipes.
(I also want that pretty green plate in your yummy looking photo!)
Can't wait to try these muffins and frosting! They look like a delicious combo. I'll probably use goat cheese chevre in the frosting instead of cream cheese so I don't have a runny nose the next look.
Love her stuff!
The cookbook looks great! I would love to have some new inspirations.
The Cinnamon Bun Muffins recipe and now topped with the cream cheese agave sweetened frosting are just want I am looking for. Thank you Elana.
I would absolutely love this cookbook! Thanks for the great giveaway (and the great recipes, of course!).
Denise
Yes please! I adore cream cheese, so this looks awesome =D.
I make a cream cheese frosting by combining yogurt cheese, cultured kerrygold, stevia, and cream/milk to thin. With NuNatural stevia it tastes just like the sugary stuff :).
These kind of make ahead and let them cook slow are great.
would love this cookbook. I've tried some of her recipes from her website, always with good results.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Oh my, that frosting is EPIC!! Love it.
Love Stephanie..Would love to have this cookbook. XO
Jody
The cookbook looks great. Thanks for the recipes and for the giveaway!
Love the richness of cream cheese.
I have been more of a pressure cooker gal than a crock-potter. Still, I have 4 crock-pots in varying sizes. I have a few recipes, but would love to see all the things I can do with them.
Just found her blog the other day, and am excited to get out my crock pot! The winter cooking continues... :)
The Cinnamon Bun Muffin recipe looks wonderful; can't wait to try it with a Creamy 'Coconut' Frosting with stevia (hope it works)!
Thank you, Elana, for your generosity in sharing so many yummy, healthy, gluten-free recipes on the Web! I'm new to this and can't wait to try some of them out!
The cookbook looks great. I'd be happy to have more ideas for how to use my crockpot.
Since I don't eat dairy I topped the muffins with your wonderful Marshmellow Frosting from your cookbbok..delicious!
I am so excited to test this recipe on my some eager toddlers tomorrow at my son's 3rd bday party. Thanks!!
I just made your old cream cheese frosting recipe and it was great. My son's teacher gives me the heads up when the class is doing a special snack so I can copy it for him to eat. I find it interesting that out of 13 kids in his class 3 have food allergies and bring their own food. I am going to make the cinnamon bun muffins this weekend and use my extra frosting.
Thanks Elana!
Thanks for your giveaways, Elana. I would love
to make better use of my crockpot.
BTW, does anyone have ideas for a GF/casein-free
frosting? I am also allergic to nuts ~ sorry,
Elana ~ I do use them in baking for my kids.
My integrative nurse-practitioner gave me
info about soaking nuts to remove an
inflammatory chemical, which could possibly
reduce my allergic response. I haven't been
brave enough to try it yet.
I told my husband I'm making these cinnamon bun muffins over the holidays (perhaps Christmas morning). We actually found some single-dose, shelf stable GFCF cream cheese (doesn't require refrigeration) earlier this week that I'm hoping will be perfect with them. Thanks so much for your awesome recipes and the opportunities to win such amazing things. Mealtime in our house is always hectic enough with different food intolerances, so I welcome any opportunity to make our lives easier, including using our crockpots more. Thank you!
O Elana, after so many fabulous muffin recipes on your site (eg cranberry lemon muffins and pumpkin pie muffins are made very very often here), I didn't think I would appreciate a new concoction of yours even more. But I do. OMG how fabulous are your cinnamon bun muffins!!! I cannot praise them enough, we devoured them in no-time. Absolutely the best muffins we ever had!
I didn't have vanille extract in my pantry anymore, so I used half of a vanilla bean. The cake was flecked with all these lovely black spots and the fragrance so subtle. THANK YOU AGAIN! for all your great work. Have a lovely weekend, we wish you well in the busy days heading towards Christmas.
xox Christianne
YeeHaa!! I got your cookbook in the mail yesterday and it made my day:) The recipes look awesome and I can't wait to make some of them.
I can't wait to make these!! What a great holiday treat!! Thanks
I'm also planning to make the muffins christmas morning. Glad to read so many rave reviews =) Thank You for all your wonderful recipes Elana!
The cinnamon bun and frosting recipes both sound delicious!! I can't bring myself to buy any commercial GF baked goods since I discovered your blog. I love the low glycemic aspect of your recipes, as well as the simplicity. I just got your cookbook for my birthday and have been cooking up a storm!
Thank you for your delicious and healthful recipes!
Elana, I continue to be amazed and grateful for all that you do. You are a wonderful, generous person and I am so happy for you success!
I have been wanting a healthy cream cheese frosting, had not had time to experiment. I'll just make yours. Thank you. Love your recipes.
Elana,
Thank you so much for your wonderful gluten-free recipes. I enjoy your website very much, and appreciate your links to other gluten-free sites as well. I would have never known all I could do with my slow cooker until you gave us the link to Stephanie's blog. You are making my life as a person with Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease much more enjoyable with your recipes; keep up the great work!
Hi Elana,
Thank you for your wonderful recipes, week after week. I refer friends and family to your blog all the time. Your talent in the kitchen is much appreciated!
These look so beautiful and I definitely plan to serve them Christmas morning. Does anyone have any ideas of things to serve alongside the muffins? I would appreciate it greatly.
Thanks so very much Elana - you are priceless.
The slow cooker is my best friend!!! I cook almost weekly family dinners (with extended family) and you never quite know what time they're actually going to arrive! So slow cooker meals have become my go-to since you don't have to worry about the end time as much. I'd love to try some new recipes!!! Thanks for hosting a great giveaway!
I just got your cookbook in the mail also and am so excited! cant wait to make many things!! I would love to win a cookbook.
These look beautiful! Can't wait to try...I'm going to see if I can substitute something for the cream though...if anyone has any suggestions let me know!!
I'm so looking forward to using your Cinnamon Bun Muffin recipe for Christmas morning and having a G.F. treat for myself as well as my guests. I'd love to win this week's giveaway also.
Thanks, Brenda :-)
The cinnamon bun muffins look amazing! Was going to make cinnamon rolls for my family Christmas morning, now I can have something yummy for myself, too! Thanks!
I enjoy all your recipes that are dairy free and can't wait for you to publish another cookbook!! Those cinnamon muffins look great. Thanks!
Cream cheese frosting is great on so many things - I am sure they're fabulous on your cinnamon bun muffins. It's neat to see how you're supporting so many other bloggers. :)
Wow! I made the cinnamon roll muffins and the cream cheese frosting - my husband (celiac) enjoyed them so much - and so did I!!
I had more frosting than I needed, but that was not a problem - I just melted a square of baking chocolate and added it, and now I have cream cheese fudge! : )
It sounds like I'm entering a contest for a cookbook - it would be super to win one!! I've already ordered the cookbook for myself (I just found your site yesterday, and was trying out a recipe first, and this was totally thumbs up!), but I'd love to have one for my son, who is celiac and allergic to dairy.
Thank you for all these great recipes - I'm SO excited to have found this site!!!
i heard from a friend that sprouted wheat is ok to eat. that it has gluten but it is not processed. do you know anything about this idea? i have not been tested but i keep myself on a gluten free diet. but i am living in Germany for a year and have a hard time finding things i can eat so i wanted to know if you have information on sprouted wheat.
I made these on Christmas morning and was told this was this didn't taste gluten-free or anything else-free for that matter by my family. Right now I've got a batch in the oven, but I added cocoa and cinnamon in the batter to try to get the flavor of this Mexican chocolate sheet cake that is a family recipe I've been missing. They smell great! Can't wait to see how my Mexican-chocolate version turns out!
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I am officially addicted to the cinnamon buns & cream cheese frosting. so delicious! thank you so much for your awesome recipes!!!
I notice you use agave nectar for the sweetener in your recipies...what would the stevia equivilant be?
This frosting is AMAZING on Elana's chocolate cupcakes! Yum!
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