Today Arla is commemorating the nation’s favorite seasonal dessert topping with its own official holiday: America’s first-ever National Cream Cheese Frosting Day. To celebrate, I’ve whipped up a delicious cream cheese frosted cake with Arla cream cheese. The frosting was so delicious, it was slightly dangerous to have in my kitchen due to my lack of self-control. For the design, I went with a Danish folk art-inspired pattern as a nod to Arla’s Denmark origins – and individually piped each dot of the pattern to play off folk art’s common use in textile form.Not only does this cream cheese frosting taste absolutely delicious, I was surprised to discover just how smooth it was – which was VERY helpful when it came time to add those intricate piping details. I’d guess this is due to the simple ingredient label for Arla’s Original cream cheese, which has only four ingredients (cream, skim milk, salt, and cheese culture) and doesn’t use stabilizers, thickeners, artificial flavors or artificial preservatives – that’s less than half the ingredients used in the popular cream cheese brand I’ve used prior. It was so smooth that I found that when it came time to pipe those pattern details, the

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