Whipped Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting

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This tastes like whipped, melted strawberry ice cream! It's just scrumptious. It's soft enough to dip cupcakes to frost them, but with a little refrigeration it's firm enough to frost with a spatula or to pipe. The food coloring is necessary if you want pink frosting because there is not enough strawberry preserves in this to turn it pink. Speaking of pink, i used himalayan pink salt. Love the stuff!!

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Steps

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In a large bowl , cream the butter and cream cheese together.

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Add the strawberry preserves , vanilla , lemon extract , salt and food coloring and beat until incorporated.

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Add powdered sugar , half a cup at a time , and continue to beat while adding the cream.

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Once the ingredients are well mixed , turn the mixer to high and beat for 5-7 minutes until fluffy.

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Ingredients

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butter, cream cheese, strawberry preserves, salt, vanilla, lemon extract, food coloring, powdered sugar, heavy cream