I've only ever had cream cheese frosting paired with pumpkin baked goods like pumpkin roll and pumpkin cookies, but from that limited exposure I would say that I do like cream cheese frosting/icing. I hope to try it on other things in the future. I've never had red velvet cake before but I plan to eventually.
I've had it on quite a few things: carrot cake, red velvet cake, and pumpkin muffins, and it's really good, but too much of it kinda ruins it. Don't get me wrong, I love buttercream (and really all kinds if frosting, I don't discriminate) and they're certainly very delicious, but they are situational frostings, and really don't belong on stuff like carrot cake. Cream cheese frosting is the same way; certain frostings works best with certain types of baked goods. I'm Gordan Ramsay, and that was our weekly in-depth analysis of random foods. This week, we covered frosting for some odd reason.