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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    German Black Forest Cake

    10 reviews

    As far as I know, this cake recipe can be traced back to my German great-grandma. When I got married,...


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    Incredible Coconut Cake

    102 reviews

    I found this coconut cake recipe in a newspaper many years ago and modified it to suit my taste. This...


    Poppy Seed Cake

    11 reviews

    As sweet finale for my favorite meal, this moist cake is chock full of poppy seeds. (Don't forget to soak...


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    Hummingbird Cake

    20 reviews

    This impressive hummingbird cake is my dad’s favorite, so I always make it for his birthday. It makes a memorable...


    Pumpkin Cake

    3 reviews

    This pumpkin cake is packed with a warm, seasonal taste from ground cinnamon and pumpkin, bits of crunchy pecans and...


    Ginger-Cream Bars

    4 reviews

    I rediscovered this old-time recipe recently and found it's everyone's favorite. Even 4-year-olds have asked for these frosted bars as...


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    Broadway Brownie Bars

    14 reviews

    I named these dessert bars for Broadway because they're a hit every time I serve them. I especially like to...


    Mama’s Spice Cake

    6 reviews

    Whenever I get a craving for a tasty old-fashioned treat, I make this cake. Great cooks in my family have...

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    7UP Pound Cake

    63 reviews

    My grandmother gave me my first cake recipe—a pound cake using 7UP—which her grandmother had given to her. On top...


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    Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

    23 reviews

    These easy pumpkin cookies are pleasantly spiced. Everyone enjoys the soft, cake-like texture, too. —Lisa Chernetsky, Luzerne, Pennsylvania


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    Pineapple Sheet Cake

    60 reviews

    This sheet cake is perfect for serving to a crowd. It keeps so well that you can easily prepare it...


    Banana Coconut Cake

    8 reviews

    Meet the Cook: In our family, a meal isn't considered complete without a dessert - or, sometimes, two! This cake...


    Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

    3 reviews

    Cindy West of Marshalltown, Iowa fixes this moist snack cake topped with sweet cream cheese frosting. "Squares of this cake...


    Best-Ever Chocolate Cake

    36 reviews

    You can't miss with this delightful old-fashioned dessert. It's truly the best ever chocolate cake! It is moist and chocolaty,...


    Zucchini Cake

    1 review

    This recipe came from my mother, whom I still proclaim as one of the best cooks in the country! Every...


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    Glazed Lemon Blueberry Muffins

    77 reviews

    Bursting with berries and drizzled with a light lemony glaze, these muffins are moist, tender and truly something special. This...


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    Sue’s Chocolate Zucchini Cake

    39 reviews

    Our family absolutely loves zucchini, especially when we grow it ourselves. We’ve found many ways to use it, including this...

    Lemon Sheet Cake

    40 reviews

    Lemon pie filling lends a splash of citrus flavor to a convenient cake mix, and a rich cream cheese frosting...


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    White Texas Sheet Cake

    109 reviews

    This cake gets better the longer it sits, so I try to make it a day ahead. My mother-in-law introduced...


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    Zucchini Brownies

    37 reviews

    A fast-to-fix peanut butter and chocolate frosting tops these moist brownies that are a sweet way to use up your...


    Chocolate Chiffon Cake

    17 reviews

    If you want to offer family and friends a dessert that really stands out from the rest, this is the...


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    Pumpkin Bars

    151 reviews

    Pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting are the ultimate fall treat. But my family likes them so much, they ask...


    Hazelnut Pear Cake

    2 reviews

    From the hazelnuts to the yummy browned butter glaze, this dessert is a little different from an everyday pound cake....

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    Halloween Sugar Cookies

    6 reviews

    I've been making these Halloween sugar cookies for about 40 years—first for my children and now my grandchildren and all...


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    Lemon-Blueberry Pound Cake

    57 reviews

    Pair a slice of this moist lemon-blueberry cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. It's a staple at our...


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    Best Red Velvet Cake

    32 reviews

    It's just not Christmas at our house until this festive cake appears. This is different from other red velvet cake...