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    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.

    Gluten-Free Vanilla Cupcakes

    Decorate these simple gluten-free vanilla cupcakes for any special occasion or holiday. Since the frosting recipe includes cream cheese, be sure to refrigerate leftovers. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Cupcake Frosting

    Simple vanilla frosting is a great topper for any cupcake. I frosted 300 cupcakes with...

    Blackberry Buttercream

    Juicy blackberry buttercream frosting has a stunning color and sophisticated flavor. This frosting works especially...

    Jelly Donut Cake

    Cake. Doughnuts. Now you don't have to choose between the two. Impress your family with...

    Margarita Cake

    This margarita cake is perfect for a picnic on a warm day. You'll be surprised...

    Peanut Butter Whipped Cream Frosting

    A luscious peanut butter whipped cream frosting is just a few ingredients away. Try it...

    Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting

    This simple peanut butter buttercream frosting makes enough to frost a three- or four-layer cake....

    Our Favorite Frosting Tools for Bakery Window-Worthy Cakes

    Serious about cake decorating? We've rounded up the most essential frosting tools you need to...

    Game Night Domino Brownies

    Brownies are the perfect handheld treat, and they’re even more fun when decorated like dominoes....

    Lemon Blueberry Whoopie Pies

    These whoopie pies are soft, cakey cookies studded with tart, juicy blueberries and filled with...
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    How to Frost a Cake the Easy and Elegant Way

    Learn how to frost a cake that your friends and family will ooh and ahh...

    How to Make Easy Strawberry Frosting

    Paired with lemon cupcakes or chocolate brownies, strawberry frosting is a delicious companion to your...
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    11 Easy Cupcake Decorating Ideas That Look Professional

    Think you can't get bakery-style decorations at home? Think again! Our easy cupcake decorating ideas...

    10 Mistakes You’re Making When Decorating Cookies

    Have more fun in the kitchen over the holidays with secrets for decorating Christmas cookies,...

    9 Mistakes Almost Everyone Makes With Royal Icing

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

    5 Easy Homemade Frosting Recipes to Know By Heart

    There's a whole world of tasty frosting beyond buttercream. Discover your new favorite with our...

    Chocolate Spice Layer Cake with Caramel Icing

    Mariann James of Ferguson, Missouri created a sweet and salty favorite with her original recipe...
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    Apple Pie Cupcakes with Cinnamon Buttercream

    These apple pie cupcakes are always a hit! They are so easy to make and...

    Hot Cocoa Cupcakes

    We were snowed in one Christmas and couldn't get to the store to buy cookies...

    Sweet Corn Cupcakes

    I love corn and try to sneak it into everything. Other fans of corn will...

    Confetti Cupcake Cones

    All three of my kids love these cones. They are requested at almost every birthday...

    Pecan Torte

    This is an old family recipe that uses our Texas pecans. I've made it often...

    Sugar ‘n’ Spice Cookies

    An inexpensive meal can still include dessert like these simple cookies. They are a sweet...