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20 things slathered with cream cheese icing

Sweetened with maple or miso caramel, or lifted with lime juice, citrus zest or passionfruit, it's the icing on the cake (or pancake).

20 recipes
A slab of banana cake with cream cheese icing and swirls of optional miso caramel.

Banana cake with cream cheese icing and miso caramel

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Sunshine on a plate: Hummingbird cake stacked with lemon curd and cream cheese icing, and topped with golden-hued decorations if you're feeling 'extra'.

Hummingbird layer cake with lemon curd, honeycomb and chamomile

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Beetroot red velvet muffins with lime cream cheese icing.

Beetroot red velvet muffins with cream cheese icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
One of the hit dishes of lockdown is also the ultimate comfort treat.

Danielle Alvarez's cinnamon scrolls with cream cheese frosting

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Helen Goh's apple cake, icing and praline optional.

Apple cake with maple cream cheese icing and caramelised walnuts

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh's pumpkin spice loaf with optional icing (omit for dairy-free).

Spiced pumpkin loaf cake with brown-sugar cream cheese icing

  • Helen Goh
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This cake swaps carrot for beetroot - but keeps the cream cheese icing.

Beetroot, pineapple and coconut cake with cream cheese icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh developed this recipe after a friend's take on her chocolate cake converted her to traybakes.
EASY

Raspberry, pistachio and lime traybake with cream cheese icing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Jill Dupleix's berry cheesecake pancakes.
EASY

Berry cheesecake pancake stacks

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Helen Goh's burnt butter parsnip cake with white chocolate cream recipe.

Burnt-butter parsnip cake with white chocolate cream cheese icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Strawberry and almond cream tart.

Strawberry and almond cream tart with cream cheese icing

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's carrot cupcakes with dill.

Carrot cupcakes with candied carrot

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Danielle Alvarez's summer showstopper.

Mango and coconut layer cake with coconut cream cheese icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Zucchini and coconut muffins.

Zucchini, coconut and macadamia muffins with lime cream cheese icing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Dan Lepard's ginger nut carrot cake with spiced banana icing.

Ginger nut carrot cake with spiced banana icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
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Layer cake with fresh and crystalised ginger, sandwiched with lime cream cheese icing

Double ginger cake with lime cream cheese icing

  • 1-2 hrs
Hummingbird cake.

Hummingbird cake with passionfruit cream cheese icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
Honey carrot cake

Honey carrot cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
Adam Liaw's stress-free children's birthday cake.

Adam Liaw's cheat's birthday traycake with cream cheese icing

  • Adam Liaw
Vegan vanilla sponge cake.

Vegan vanilla sponge cake with cream 'cheese' icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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