Frostings

Frostings

Our list of frosting recipes for cakes, cupcakes and more.

Cakes & Frostings

Seven Minute Frosting Recipe

This recipe has been around forever. Seven Minute Frosting is still among the best, simplest, prettiest frostings around. It can also be tinted with a few drops of food coloring.

Cakes & Frostings

Lemon Layer Cake with Lemon Buttercream Frosting Recipe

This layer cake is lemon-bright in flavor and feather-light in texture. Lemon Buttercream Frosting Cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolk, beating well, and gradually beat in the sugar with the lemon juice until desired spreading consistency is reached. Spread frosting between layers and on top and sides of cake layers.

Lazy Daisy Cake
Cakes & Frostings

Lazy Daisy Cake Recipe

Lazy Daisy Cake is a wonderful, light-textured cake with a delectable broiled icing. Its origins are from the 1940s and ’50s — a time when cake mixes were uncommon and baking from scratch was the rule. Make this cake when there are people around to enjoy it warm from the oven, or warm up a

Cakes & Frostings, Pies

Swiss Meringue Recipe

If you want really perfect meringue for your pies or puddings, this is the recipe for you. It’s a little more trouble then ordinary meringue, but it will not produce the little sugar beads that annoy so many people, and it’s absolutely gorgeous. Kitchen Tools You’ll Need Cake Recipes

Cream Cheese Frosting
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Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

This easy-to-make frosting is one the best, most versatile frostings you can prepare. By adding cocoa powder a tablespoon at a time, it can be as chocolatey as you like, or a few drops of food coloring will create the tint you desire. But even in its “plain” state, cream cheese frosting is an always

Cooked Buttercream Frosting
Cakes & Frostings

Cooked Buttercream Frosting Recipe

This gorgeous, delectable frosting is a little more trouble than the usual cream cheese frosting, but it’s worth it. Cream cheese frosting, although good, has little body and doesn’t hold its shape well. Cooked buttercream frosting is silky, smooth and a dream to spread on your cake. Also, it won’t break down in the heat

Chocolate Cake
Cakes & Frostings

Favorite Chocolate Layer Cake Recipe

There may be other chocolate cakes as good as this one, but there is none better than our Favorite Chocolate Layer Cake. And for a “from scratch” cake, this one is surprisingly undemanding. Favorite Chocolate Frosting Recipe for the Cake Combine the chocolate chips, half-and-half and butter in a heavy saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly,

Chocolate Fudge Frosting
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Chocolate Fudge Frosting Recipe

Get ready for a chocolate thrill. This chocolate fudge frosting recipe is extremely chocolaty and truly fudgy — not wannabe confectioners’ sugar fudgy, but like real, cooked fudge, and a whole lot easier. No candy thermometer required. We used this frosting to make the famous Hershey’s Fudge Cake. Kitchen Tools You’ll Need More Recipes

Cindy's Good Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting
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Cindy’s Good Old Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Cindy’s cream cheese frosting is a simple frosting that’s good across a wide variety of cakes. This is enough for a two or three-layer cake. If you use really quality vanilla, you’ll definitely taste it. You can view our full list of frosting recipes. Buy Vanilla Extract More Recipes

Brown Sugar Frosting
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Brown Sugar Frosting Recipe

If you need enough frosting for top and sides of a layer cake, this recipe can be doubled. But the quantity in this brown sugar frosting recipe is perfect for a tube pan cake such as Brown Sugar Pound Cake. Actually there should be plenty of frosting leftover to munch on or share with your kids.

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