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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    Peanut Butter ‘N’ Jelly Cake

    4 reviews

    I made this fun and flavorful peanut butter and jelly cake for my son's first birthday. He just turned 33,...


    Easter Basket Cupcakes

    1 review

    My mother and I would make these when I was growing up, and I had just as much fun sharing...


    Peanut Butter Truffle Cupcakes

    3 reviews

    Everybody loves cupcakes, and these have a wonderfully tasty hidden treasure inside. They're rich and delicious! —Marlene Schollenberger, Bloomington, Indiana


    Pineapple Chiffon Cake

    1 review

    I was looking for an unusual recipe to enter in a competition at the local county fair, since it seemed...


    Halloween Layer Cake

    21 reviews

    There's nothing "scary" about this cake. I make it every Halloween for my husband, Mike, and our three children. —Karen...


    Glazed Lemon Tube Cake

    36 reviews

    This easy lemon cake recipe is just the dessert to brighten up a gray winter day (or any day). Lemon...


    Cherry Cola Cake

    26 reviews

    Cherry cola and marshmallows make a zippy chocolate dessert that is scrumptious topped with vanilla ice cream. — Cheri Mason,...


    Almond Cheesecake Bars

    15 reviews

    This recipe for almond bars with cream cheese is from my sister-in-law. I've taken the bars to many functions, and...

    Miniature Almond Tarts

    1 review

    My family requests these adorable little tarts each Christmas. I always enjoy making them since the almond paste in the...


    Cherry-Coconut Slices

    1 review

    My mother got this recipe from a woman named Emmie Oddie, a well-known home economist in Canada who had a...


    Snowflake Cookie Ornaments

    2 reviews

    Your cookie trays will twinkle with these festive snowflake cookies. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen


    Pumpkin Cake with Whipped Cinnamon Frosting

    3 reviews

    My mom made this for me, and one bite can completely take me back to my childhood. You can easily...


    Raspberry Coconut Cake

    9 reviews

    This seemed like a festive dessert to fix for the holidays, so I decided to try it out on my...


    Vanilla Cinnamon Rolls

    6 reviews

    This is the best recipe I have found for cinnamon rolls. They're so tender with a delightful vanilla flavor and...


    King Cake with Cream Cheese Filling

    3 reviews

    Round out your Mardi Gras celebration with a King Cake—a colorful ring-shaped pastry drizzled with green, gold and purple icing....


    Royal Raspberry Cake

    12 reviews

    My all-time favorite cake recipes include this one. It's easy to make, pretty to look at...and delicious! I never fail...


    Frosted Cinnamon Rolls

    34 reviews

    These pretty cinnamon rolls are absolutely marvelous and taste just like the ones sold at the mall. Topped with a...

    Fig-Filled Cookies

    2 reviews

    Family and friends know I have a fondness for Christmas cookies. Each year after Thanksgiving, they begin asking when the...


    “Fishy” Red Velvet Cake

    23 reviews

    Based on an old-fashioned recipe, this unusual birthday cake will steal the show at your party. The vibrant red color...


    Mint Chocolate Cake

    11 reviews

    My husband works for a mint farmer, so I'm always looking for recipes with mint in them. I received this...


    Pumpkin Spice Cookies

    12 reviews

    These big, soft spice cookies created by our staff have a sweet frosting that makes them an extra-special treat. Enjoy!...


    Butterscotch Eggnog Stars

    3 reviews

    These yellow star-shaped cookies with a "stained-glass" center are almost too pretty to eat! But they have a rich eggnog...


    White Christmas Cake

    4 reviews

    "Wow!" is the reaction from family and guests when they see and taste this lovely three-layer beauty. White chocolate, coconut...

    Pumpkin Eggnog Rolls

    5 reviews

    I needed to use up some eggnog, so I swapped it for milk in my sweet roll
    recipe. Even...


    Chocolate Maple Bars

    6 reviews

    My family runs a maple syrup operation, and I'm always looking for new ways to incorporate maple syrup into my...


    Austrian Chocolate Balls

    2 reviews

    I love to prepare these chocolate balls for family gatherings, to share at work or when I have a craving...


    Best Chocolate Raspberry Torte

    12 reviews

    How do you make already delicious chocolate cake even more decadent? By adding a heavenly raspberry filling and a lovely...


    Santa Sugar Cookies

    4 reviews

    Ho ho ho! St. Nick can drop in any time when you bake these cute-as-can-be treats formed with a heart-shaped...


    Football Brownies

    2 reviews

    Homemade chocolate frosting adds a special touch to these moist brownies prepared from a mix. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen