Swiss meringue buttercream is a silky icing that uses egg whites, sugar and butter. It's not too sweet, and perfect for piping and frosting cakes and cupcakes. Here, you'll learn how to make this silky frosting, heating egg whites and sugar in a double boiler, then adding butter to the meringue. ...
The Best Frosting and Icing Recipes
You are in the right place to find the best cake frosting recipe. Plus icing for cookies and brownies!
Making frosting and icing from scratch will take your cakes to a new level. Here you'll find basic frosting recipes, as well as cooked frostings like this creamy caramel icing.
What's the best chocolate frosting recipe? My fluffy chocolate frosting is delicious when you want a nice chocolate buttercream taste. This chocolate ganache frosting recipe is shiny and elegant. Then there's my sweet, tangy, and dense chocolate cream cheese frosting recipe.
Make sure to try my decorating frosting recipes like this cookie frosting that hardens into a shiny surface, the best vanilla buttercream frosting and this perfect piping frosting. They all make excellent Christmas cookie frosting recipes.
The best frosting and icing recipes:
The Best Frosting For Cookies
I'll tell you how to choose the best homemade frosting for cookies. Get tips and recipes for your treats no matter what kind you are making. Do you make cookies at home? Well if the answer is yes, you're in the right place! I love cookies, and all the delicious icings and frostings ...
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
This post has been updated from the original with new tips and delicious information. A homemade chocolate frosting recipe with a silky, smooth chocolate taste. This Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting recipe is easy to make, but hard to beat! If you like cream cheese frosting (and let's be ...
Simple Cream Cheese Frosting
Get the scoop on how to make cream cheese frosting that is versatile and delicious. This simple cream cheese frosting works on cake, cupcakes, cookies and cinnamon rolls. Oh the beauty of silky, sweet cream cheese frosting swirled on top of spice cake, chocolate layers or even warm cinnamon ...
Best Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting
Make fluffy peanut butter frosting that's soft and creamy, and holds for piping. It has intense nut flavor and is delicious on cake, cupcakes, brownies and cookies. If there's one thing I love, it's frosting. At age 4 I asked my mom, "What's the stuff that holds up the frosting?" Cake was ...
The Best Frosting For Brownies
A recipe for frosting made especially for brownies. Rich, chocolate flavor, just the right amount, and easy to make. This post may include affiliate links. For more information please see my disclosure agreement. Frosting for Brownies I find frosted brownies ridiculously delicious. ...
Creamy Caramel Icing
Creamy Caramel Icing makes spice cake sing, chocolate cake a dream and cupcakes do the happy dance. It's a vintage recipe that should become one of your new classics. The first thing you need to know about this glorious frosting is that it is vintage. It is! That doesn't mean it's old and moldy, it ...
Cashew Cookies with Brown Butter Frosting
Cashew Cookies with Brown Butter Frosting are my favorite oatmeal cookie from childhood. Chewy and full of nuts, topped with buttery icing. I could eat the entire pan of these cashew cookies with brown butter frosting. They are like soft, buttery oatmeal cookies on cashew steroids, plus the ...
Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes | Recipe Mashup
Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes combines the perfect chocolate cake with my creamy caramel frosting. The flavors make for a great recipe mashup. • • • This recipe takes two favorites and creates a mashup that you'll want to make again and again. I teamed up with Kate from the Instagram @sweetkatebake to ...
Almond Ginger Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
Almond Ginger Cookies are even better with a fluffy, ginger cream cheese frosting. There is nothing better than warming up with these flavorful cookies. As seen on my appearance in The Food Network Christmas Cookie Challenge! I always know that the holidays are just around the corner when ...
Holiday Peppermint Brownies • Tara Teaspoon
Fudgy Holiday Peppermint Brownies get festive with a sweet, pink fluffy frosting top and crushed candy canes. • • • Peppermint brownies are one of those treats I wish were acceptable to eat all year round. They seem to only come out at Christmas, and rightly so, since peppermints and candy canes ...
Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting • Tara Teaspoon
Whipped chocolate ganache frosting is smooth, rich and melts in your mouth. It's great for spreading and piping on any cake. • • • Ganache is that silky chocolate mixture in the middle of truffles. You make it by gently melting chocolate into hot, heavy cream. Once solidified it is a ...
Classic Yellow Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Classic yellow cake with chocolate frosting is what good memories are made of. Whether it's your favorite birthday cake, grandma's specialty, or just comfort food at it's best, you'll want this recipe. Oh that layer cake, in all it's glory, sitting on top of that cake pedestal like it ...
Tara Teaspoon Royal Icing
Tara Teaspoon Royal Icing is a go-to recipe for meringue-based decorating frosting that dries shiny and hard for perfect cookies. • • • This icing is perfect for piping, coloring and decorating with detail. It dries shiny and with a bit of a crack. Royal icing is the type of frosting used on many ...
Pink Lemonade Cake
Pink Lemonade Cake takes your favorite summer drink from the glass to the cake plate with this citrusy, sweet dessert. Fluffy frosting covers cake layered with pink lemon curd. Oh my! Kind of the perfect dessert ever created. Pink Lemonade Curd For the filling of this tasty cake I made a ...
Extra Rich Milk Chocolate Frosting
Milk Chocolate Frosting makes the perfect chocolaty swoops and swirls on your cakes and cupcakes. I've got a tip that will guarantee a rich chocolate flavor every time! I love chocolate. It happens to be an integral part of my favorite food: Chocolate Chip Cookies. So, naturally, when it comes time ...
Lemon Lover's Layer Cake
A lemon lovers dream. Layer cake that really tastes like outrageous lemon, looks like a vision from heaven and makes everyone's taste buds very happy. Find out what the secret is! Loving everything lemon is a career my mom ventured into before I was alive. She takes it very seriously. Lemon pie, ...
Fluffy Vanilla Frosting • Tara Teaspoon
Fluffy Vanilla Frosting is a basic confectioners' sugar frosting that works for spreading, piping, decorating and delicious eating! • • • Fluffy Vanilla Frosting is just that, a light, simple frosting for cupcakes, cookies and cakes. Like the sweet stuff of childhood. This post may include ...
Meringue Buttercream Double Batch
The smoothest, most buttery and delicious frosting you'll ever make. This luscious buttercream is made with a Swiss meringue technique. Swiss meringues, different than Italian meringues, mixes the sugar and egg whites together over heat, dissolving the sugar, then whipping it into a fluffy meringue. ...
Lemon Royal Icing
Lemon Royal Icing is citrus-flavored decorating frosting that dries shiny and hard for perfect cookies. This icing is perfect for piping, coloring and decorating with detail. The lemon flavor makes it delicious on sugar cookies, and even gingerbread. This post may include affiliate links. ...