| Alabama | Not Allowed | Alabama defines cottage foods as non-potentially hazardous foods that do not req | Alabama Frosting Rules → |
| Alaska | Not Allowed | Alaska prohibits the sale of dairy products and TCS foods under its homemade foo | Alaska Frosting Rules → |
| Arizona | Not Allowed | Arizona allows dairy as an ingredient only if the finished product does not requ | Arizona Frosting Rules → |
| Arkansas | Not Allowed | Arkansas cottage food law restricts production to non-potentially hazardous food | Arkansas Frosting Rules → |
| California | Not Allowed | California's approved food list explicitly permits buttercream frosting only if | California Frosting Rules → |
| Colorado | Not Allowed | Colorado's Cottage Foods Act prohibits baked goods with cream or cream cheese to | Colorado Frosting Rules → |
| Connecticut | Not Allowed | Connecticut restricts cottage food sales to non-potentially hazardous shelf-stab | Connecticut Frosting Rules → |
| Delaware | Not Allowed | Delaware limits cottage food to non-potentially hazardous foods. Cream cheese fr | Delaware Frosting Rules → |
| Florida | Not Allowed | Florida explicitly prohibits cream cheese icings because they require refrigerat | Florida Frosting Rules → |
| Georgia | Not Allowed | Georgia permits only non-potentially hazardous cottage foods. Cream cheese frost | Georgia Frosting Rules → |
| Hawaii | Not Allowed | Hawaii's Homemade Food program requires all products to be non-potentially hazar | Hawaii Frosting Rules → |
| Idaho | Not Allowed | Idaho allows only non-potentially hazardous foods under its cottage food law. Cr | Idaho Frosting Rules → |
| Illinois | See Details | Illinois allows cream cheese frosting but requires it to be transported and sold | Illinois Frosting Rules → |
| Indiana | Not Allowed | Indiana has strict non-PHF limits. Cream cheese frosting is a TCS dairy product | Indiana Frosting Rules → |
| Iowa | See Details | Iowa's basic cottage food exemption prohibits TCS foods. However, a Home Food Pr | Iowa Frosting Rules → |
| Kansas | Not Allowed | Kansas explicitly prohibits cream cheese-based frostings and fillings under its | Kansas Frosting Rules → |
| Kentucky | Not Allowed | Kentucky restricts cottage food to non-potentially hazardous, shelf-stable foods | Kentucky Frosting Rules → |
| Louisiana | Not Allowed | Louisiana limits cottage food to low-risk non-TCS items. Cream cheese frosting i | Louisiana Frosting Rules → |
| Maine | Not Allowed | Maine restricts cottage food to non-potentially hazardous foods. Cream cheese fr | Maine Frosting Rules → |
| Maryland | Not Allowed | Maryland explicitly lists cream cheese and other potentially hazardous frostings | Maryland Frosting Rules → |
| Massachusetts | Not Allowed | Massachusetts prohibits cream-filled pastries and cheesecake under its Residenti | Massachusetts Frosting Rules → |
| Michigan | Not Allowed | Michigan explicitly prohibits cakes with frosting that requires refrigeration, i | Michigan Frosting Rules → |
| Minnesota | Not Allowed | Minnesota prohibits frostings containing cream cheese under the basic cottage fo | Minnesota Frosting Rules → |
| Mississippi | Not Allowed | Mississippi limits cottage food to non-TCS items. Cream cheese frosting is a TCS | Mississippi Frosting Rules → |
| Missouri | Not Allowed | Missouri's cottage food law specifies that potentially hazardous foods must be m | Missouri Frosting Rules → |
| Montana | See Details | Montana's Food Freedom law allows perishable foods broadly, but cream cheese fro | Montana Frosting Rules → |
| Nebraska | Allowed | Nebraska LB262 (effective July 2024) explicitly allows dairy products including | Nebraska Frosting Rules → |
| Nevada | Not Allowed | Nevada restricts cottage food to non-potentially hazardous foods from an approve | Nevada Frosting Rules → |
| New Hampshire | Not Allowed | New Hampshire explicitly notes that foods containing cheese are not considered n | New Hampshire Frosting Rules → |
| New Jersey | Not Allowed | New Jersey's official prohibited foods list explicitly names cream cheese frosti | New Jersey Frosting Rules → |
| New Mexico | Not Allowed | New Mexico prohibits cakes with refrigeration-required frosting, explicitly incl | New Mexico Frosting Rules → |
| New York | Not Allowed | New York limits cottage food to shelf-stable non-potentially hazardous foods. Cr | New York Frosting Rules → |
| North Carolina | Not Allowed | North Carolina prohibits dairy products including cream and cheese in cottage fo | North Carolina Frosting Rules → |
| North Dakota | Allowed | North Dakota explicitly allows cream cheese icings and fillings in cottage food | North Dakota Frosting Rules → |
| Ohio | Not Allowed | Ohio permits only shelf-stable non-potentially hazardous cottage foods. Cream ch | Ohio Frosting Rules → |
| Oklahoma | See Details | Oklahoma's Homemade Food Freedom Act allows certain TCS foods with required food | Oklahoma Frosting Rules → |
| Oregon | Not Allowed | Oregon's Home Bakery Exemption explicitly allows shelf-stable baked goods that d | Oregon Frosting Rules → |
| Pennsylvania | Not Allowed | Pennsylvania explicitly prohibits cream cheese frosting on custom cakes under it | Pennsylvania Frosting Rules → |
| Rhode Island | Not Allowed | Rhode Island allows only non-potentially hazardous products under its cottage fo | Rhode Island Frosting Rules → |
| South Carolina | Not Allowed | South Carolina restricts cottage food to non-potentially hazardous foods. Cream | South Carolina Frosting Rules → |
| South Dakota | See Details | South Dakota allows perishable baked goods when maintained at or below 41°F and | South Dakota Frosting Rules → |
| Tennessee | Allowed | Tennessee's expanded Food Freedom Act (HB 130, effective July 2025) explicitly a | Tennessee Frosting Rules → |
| Texas | Allowed | Texas SB 541 (effective September 2025) allows TCS foods including cream cheese | Texas Frosting Rules → |
| Utah | Not Allowed | Utah cottage food regulations explicitly state that baked goods may not contain | Utah Frosting Rules → |
| Vermont | Not Allowed | Vermont prohibits any food requiring time or temperature control, explicitly inc | Vermont Frosting Rules → |
| Virginia | Not Allowed | Virginia explicitly prohibits cream cheese frosting while allowing standard Amer | Virginia Frosting Rules → |
| Washington | Not Allowed | Washington restricts cottage food to shelf-stable non-TCS baked goods only. Crea | Washington Frosting Rules → |
| West Virginia | Not Allowed | West Virginia's cottage food law applies only to shelf-stable non-potentially ha | West Virginia Frosting Rules → |
| Wisconsin | Not Allowed | Wisconsin explicitly prohibits cream cheese frosting on custom decorated cakes u | Wisconsin Frosting Rules → |
| Wyoming | Allowed | Wyoming's Food Freedom Act allows any food except meat, including dairy-based fr | Wyoming Frosting Rules → |
