Chocolate-Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

• 0.5 cup butter softened
• 0.3 cup buttermilk 
• 8 ounce cream cheese softened
• 0.3 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 0.7 cup pecans finely chopped
• 16 ounce powdered sugar 
• 0.3 cup cocoa unsweetened
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 

Equipment

• hand mixer

Directions

1. Beat first 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
2. Combine powdered sugar and cocoa; gradually add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with powdered sugar mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in pecans.