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 ...
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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. ...
Pastel Black and White Cookies for Spring
Pastel Black and White Cookies for spring are simple, elegant and perfect for your party. Add color to the glaze to give them a seasonal flare. I gave the classic New York City black and white cookies a seasonal makeover so you can have the perfect spring dessert.This post may include affiliate ...
Spice Cake With Creamy Caramel Icing
Spice cake with creamy caramel icing is light and flavorful. The cooked caramel frosting is smooth and delicious like brown sugar fudge. Take it from me you won't want to miss this combination. Spice cake with caramel! It's one of the best things in life. This two-layer, easy-to-make ...
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 bonus of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eerie Eyeball Cupcakes
Eyeball cupcakes check out everyone that walks by your Halloween treat table. Grab one before they LOOK away! Mini cupcakes make the perfect canvas for creepy, delicious Halloween eyes. I love having a big platter of these lookers on my treat table! A few simple candies and frosting is all ...
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 ...
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 ...
Carrot Cake Pancakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Carrot Cake Pancakes with spice and a hint of orange zest are a delicious excuse to eat a little something sweet for breakfast, and cream cheese frosting, if you need an excuse for that!Guest post by: Morgan Aibinder of The Improv Kitchen Tara and I met last year on a photo shoot for KitchenAid, ...
The Ultimate Golden Globes Party Guide
You say "Golden Globes" and all I hear is "party." I love any excuse to get people together, have fun, and of course, eat!I've pulled together some of my favorite ideas to throw the Golden Globes get-together of your dreams—everything from food and decor to games and favors. And if you haven't ...
Broken Bones Graveyard Cake
If you're having a classy, spiders-and-witches Halloween party this year, how great would this cake be as the centerpiece of the dessert table?!?!The meringue bones are easy to prepare. It just takes one or two before you are a pro at piping the simple shape. Then make your favorite red-velvet ...
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 ...
Candy Corn Twist Cupcakes
I know people who like candy corn. I try not to judge them, and just love them for who they are--but it's hard. For those of you in my camp who don't love the wonderfully iconic Halloween candy, but, like me, survive off of several sugar fixes a day, I created a solution in the form of a ...
Meringue Buttercream
Swiss Meringue Buttercream is a silky icing that uses egg whites, sugar and butter. Not too sweet, it's perfect for piping and frosting cakes and cupcakes. Possibly one of the most perfect frostings imaginable.This isn't a confectioners' sugar icing, it starts with a Swiss meringue (a cooked ...
Peanut Butter Brownie Cake
Combining the chocolaty goodness of brownies with peanut butter fudge makes this dessert practically irresistible. Peanut Butter Brownie Cake, or Can-I-Get-A-Boyfriend Peanut Butter Brownie Cake as I like to call it, takes a simple chocolate brownie cake recipe and elevates it with two layers of ...
