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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    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...


    Peanut Butter Sheet Cake

    17 reviews

    I received this recipe from a minister's wife, and my family loves it. —Brenda Jackson, Garden City, Kansas


    Thick Sugar Cookies

    9 reviews

    This thick and cakelike sugar cookie is similar to those sold at bakeries. My children often request these for their...


    Glazed Spiced Rum Pound Cakes

    4 reviews

    My recipe makes two loaf-sized treats, perfect for sharing. The spiced rum flavor really comes through in both the cake...


    Mocha Yule Log

    15 reviews

    This eye-catching dessert is guaranteed to delight holiday dinner guests. Chocolate lovers will lick their lips over the yummy cocoa...


    Chocolate Cream Cupcakes

    1 review

    My favorite hockey team the Boston Bruins inspired these cupcakes. Add a love note on top using a little white...


    Red Wine and Chocolate Cupcakes

    Red wine and chocolate make an amazing pairing, especially in these rich, elegant cupcakes I make each year for my...


    Cranberry-Filled Orange Pound Cake

    4 reviews

    I made this for a holiday dinner with my family. Everyone loved the cran-orange flavor and the sweet glaze drizzled...

    Brown Sugar Pound Cake

    13 reviews

    This tender pound cake is the first one I mastered. You'll want to eat the browned butter icing by the...


    Glazed Maple Shortbread Cookies

    13 reviews

    Whenever I visit friends in Lutsen, Minnesota, I make sure to buy maple syrup there because I think it's even...


    Chocolate-Glazed Doughnut Cookies

    2 reviews

    My little nieces love to help decorate these doughnut-shaped cookies. They top them with sprinkles, chopped pecans or crushed candy...


    Chocolate Macaroon Cake

    "This cake is always popular with chocolate lovers, including my five children," notes Saburo Aburano of Ann Arbor, Michigan. "I...


    Peanut-Filled Devil’s Food Cupcakes

    2 reviews

    This recipe features a luscious peanut butter filling surrounded by devil's food and then iced with a rich layer of...


    Special Mocha Cupcakes

    29 reviews

    Topped with a fluffy frosting and chocolate sprinkles, these extra-rich, extra-delicious cupcakes smell wonderful while baking and taste even better!...


    Dark Chocolate Layer Cake

    5 reviews

    —David Heppner, Brandon, Florida


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    Sour Cream Cookies

    11 reviews

    The unique frosting on these cookies combines butter and confectioners' sugar for a rich flavor. —Tracy Betzler, Reston, Virginia


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    Butter Cookies

    10 reviews

    This great butter cookie recipe is a favorite of my nephews, who love the creamy frosting. —Ruth Griggs, South Hill,...

    Strawberry Jam Cake

    18 reviews

    Every year I make this special strawberry jam cake for the Relay for Life cake raffle. It has raised lots...


    Cream Wafers

    36 reviews

    My sons used to help me make these cookies, and now my oldest granddaughter helps. When the smaller grandchildren are...


    Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting

    12 reviews

    Chocolate and peanut butter are such an enjoyable combination. This delicious chocolate peanut butter frosting makes a satisfying topping to...


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    Raspberry Streusel Coffee Cake

    28 reviews

    One of my mother's friends used to bring this over at the holidays, and it never lasted long. With tangy...


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    Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

    20 reviews

    My husband, Doug, loved his groom's cake that was topped with this smooth, rich chocolate buttercream frosting and accented with...


    Carrot Layer Cake

    44 reviews

    My sister gave me this recipe for what she calls "the ultimate carrot cake," and it really lives up to...

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    Lemon-Blueberry Pound Cake

    56 reviews

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


    Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

    35 reviews

    My mom has been making this chocolate chip cake recipe for 30 years. Topped with a chocolate glaze, it is...


    Fluffy White Frosting

    18 reviews

    For a heavenly light and fluffy frosting, you can't top this variation of the classic seven-minute frosting. —Georgia Bohmann, West...


    Carrot Cupcakes

    19 reviews

    To try to get my family to eat more vegetables, I often hide nutritional foods inside sweet treats. Now we...


    Chocolate Bavarian Torte

    26 reviews

    Whenever I take this eye-catching torte to a potluck, I get so many requests for the recipe. —Edith Holmstrom, Madison,...


    Lemon Meltaways

    12 reviews

    Both the cookie and the frosting are spiked with lemon in these melt-in-your-mouth goodies. Your family won't be able to...