Food and Recipes Desserts Cakes Brown Sugar-Cream Cheese Frosting Be the first to rate & review! This sweet, silky cream cheese frosting is the perfect complement to a moist, stately carrot cake. Whip up a batch of this icing for your layer cake to give some extra depth to your desserts, and it'll only take you about 10 minutes. Be sure to garnish with candied carrot curls! By Pam Lolley Pam Lolley Pam Lolley developed and tested recipes for Southern Living Magazine in the Souths most trusted Test Kitchen for 19 years. She worked closely with the editors planning and packaging stories, collaborating with art and photo teams on food styling and recipe reproduction to ensure reader satisfaction, content quality control, and recipe authenticity history and cooking. Her area of expertise was baking and and pastry development and she acted as the point person for these areas in the Test Kitchen. With 30+ years of experience in the culinary field, Pam created and tested 1000s of recipes for Southern Living. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Published on March 8, 2018 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Alison Miksch Total Time: 10 mins Yield: 5 cups Ingredients 2 (8-oz.) packages cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup butter, softened 1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 7 cups powdered sugar Directions Beat softened cream cheese, butter, and brown sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add vanilla, and beat until blended. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating at low speed until blended. Increase speed to high; beat 1 minute or until smooth. Rate it Print