Cream Cheese Glaze

Easy 4 ingredient Cream Cheese Glaze for pound cake, cinnamon rolls, bundt cake, pumpkin bread, donuts, carrot cake and more! This Cream Cheese Glaze looks as good as it tastes, pouring onto your favorite baked goods effortlessly and beautifully.

You’ve seen this Cream Cheese Glaze smothering a lot of my favorite baked goods over the years including Carrot Cake Bread, Cinnamon Rolls and more, but it’s so delicious you could eat it with a spoon, so I decided it deserves it’s own post to live in all it’s glory.

You’ll also see me smothering it over a few new recipes this fall {look out for Pumpkin Pound Cake, coming soon}! It’s the perfect addition to any pound cake, coffee cake, bundt cake, donut or muffin.

Pinterest readers have enjoyed it on banana bread and apple crumb cake. You can pin this recipe for later here.

This easy Cream Cheese Glaze recipe uses 4 simple ingredients – cream cheese {of course}, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar, also known as confectioner’s sugar.

This sweet and creamy glaze has just a little tang to balance the flavor. It’s so good that the girls don’t even realize there’s cream cheese in it!

If someone doesn’t care for cream cheese, you can make some of my Cinnamon Roll Icing as well for guests to choose.

As you can see this cream cheese glaze goes on so smooth and has the perfect drizzle that hardens to the touch, but not to the taste!

How to Store Cream Cheese Glaze:

If you have any leftover {the shame!} you can refrigerate covered and warm when needed.

What Can this Cream Cheese Glaze be Used On?

• pound cake
• cinnamon rolls
• cinnamon roll bread
• bundt cake
• pumpkin bread
• donuts
• carrot cake

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How to Make Cream Cheese Glaze:

Just combine, warm and pooooooouuuuuur over your favorite baked goods. It’s just that easy and so good! See the printable recipe card below! If you love these recipes as much as I do, please write a five star review and help me share on Facebook and Pinterest!

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Cream Cheese Glaze

Easy 4 ingredient Cream Cheese Glaze for pound cake, cinnamon rolls, bundt cake, pumpkin bread, donuts, carrot cake and more! 

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword bread, cake, cinnamon roll, brunch, breads, easy dessert, easy recipe, frosting, glaze, icing, pound cake, sauce

Prep Time 4 minutes

Total Time 4 minutes

Servings 10

Author Julie Blanner

Ingredients

• 4 oz cream cheese softened
• 1/4 c butter softened
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 c powdered sugar

Instructions

1. Mix ingredients until smooth.
2. Warm until pourable and allow to set before serving. 

Recipe Notes

You can use clear vanilla to avoid a creamy color if desired.

If you have any leftover {the shame!} you can refrigerate covered and warm when needed.