Frosting Recipes

Take your cakes and cookies to the next level with our frosting recipes, including our famous vanilla buttercream. You’ll find royal icing recipes and how-to’s here, too.

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    9 Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes With Royal Icing

    That colorful coating might look pretty on your Christmas cookies, but royal icing can be, well, a royal pain. Here...


    11 Types of Frosting All Bakers Need to Know

    There's a whole world of tasty frosting beyond the canned stuff. Learn how to make all the best types of...


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    What Is Royal Icing? (And How Do You Make It?)

    It's easier to make royal icing than you think!


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    Carrot Spice Thumbprint Cookies

    11 reviews

    Carrot cake is a family favorite, and these delicious cookies with shredded carrots, dried cranberries, toasted walnuts, cinnamon and cloves...


    Chocolate Spice Layer Cake with Caramel Icing

    Mariann James of Ferguson, Missouri created a sweet and salty favorite with her original recipe for chocolate spice cake with...


    Cinnamon-Spice Brownies

    1 review

    Gail Mehle of Rock Springs, Wyoming submitted the original recipe for these brownies with a secret ingredient: cinnamon. The spicy...


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    Apple Pie Cupcakes

    24 reviews

    Turn the classic cupcake into a fall favorite with our rendition of apple pie cupcakes. Filled with a sweet apple...


    Copycat Berger Cookies

    3 reviews

    After a friend who had recently traveled to Baltimore sent me a package of Berger cookies, I was hooked. They...

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    Macarons

    8 reviews

    These cookies are a French classic, but you don't need to rush to a patisserie. Learn how to make macarons...


    Ugly Sweater Cookies

    Perhaps the most amazing thing about Ugly Sweater Cookies is how cute they are. Try these classic gingerbreads on for...


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    Summertime Fun Cookies

    2 reviews

    Use this basic sugar cookie recipe to make the perfect poolside treat. Kids (and adults) won't be able to get...


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    Reindeer Cake

    1 review

    Whether you turn this cake into a reindeer or decorate it with your own creative vision, it’s a three-layer stunner...


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    25 Decadent Desserts with Cream Cheese Frosting

    Desserts with cream cheese frosting are always a favorite. Go beyond basic carrot cake and check out even more ways...


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    German Apple Cake

    67 reviews

    Bursting with pieces of juicy apple, warmly spiced with cinnamon and crowned with a sweet cloud of cream cheese frosting,...


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    Coca-Cola Cake

    80 reviews

    Our coca-cola cake recipe uses not one but two cans of everyone's favorite soda. Move over, mayonnaise! Cola is our...


    Apple Walnut Cake

    15 reviews

    There are fancy cakes that are light and fluffy, but when fall comes around you can’t get much better than...


    Blackberry Cake

    5 reviews

    Wild blackberries are plentiful here, so I started making this cake to put that pretty crop to good use. Everyone...

    Chocolate Chiffon Cake

    17 reviews

    This chocolate chiffon cake may take some practice to perfect, but once you do, it may be difficult to remember...


    Lemon Orange Cake

    12 reviews

    I like to bake this lovely three-layer lemon and orange cake instead of a more traditional pie for Thanksgiving. It...


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    White Texas Sheet Cake

    109 reviews

    This classic white Texas sheet cake is delicious, and surprisingly quick and easy to make. You won't even need to...


    Amaretto Butter Frosting

    5 reviews

    Put the crowning touch on cupcakes with this rich and buttery Amaretto topper. —Anette Stevens, Olds, Alberta


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    Banana Bars

    160 reviews

    Moist and full of sweet banana flavor, these easy banana bars are a delicious way to use up ripe bananas....


    Caramel Apple Cake

    61 reviews

    When fall arrives, you’ll want to bake this caramel apple cake—it’s delicious, moist and topped with rich icing....

    Chocolate Almond Cake

    11 reviews

    Fluffy white homemade frosting tops this rich chocolate almond cake. Sliced toasted almonds on top add a little crunch. —Sherri...


    Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars

    93 reviews

    Part protein bar and part cookie, these oatmeal chocolate chip bars are the perfect sweet treat for an after-school snack...


    Chocolate Bavarian Torte

    27 reviews

    Whenever I take this eye-catching torte to a potluck, I get so many requests for the recipe. —Edith Holmstrom, Madison,...


    Cute Pig Cookies

    7 reviews

    Every year when National Pig Day rolls around, I make this taste treats to celebrate.—Becky Baldwin, Annville, Pennsylvania


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    Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Frosting

    221 reviews

    You can get a moist, flavorful cake without any weird ingredients using this recipe for chocolate cake with vanilla frosting....


    Cookies-and-Cream Cake

    29 reviews

    If you like cookies-and-cream ice cream, you'll love this cake. Chocolate sandwich cookies are mixed into the batter and pressed...