Frosting and Icing Recipes

This easy buttercream frosting is perfect for piping and decorating.

This recipe delivers a basic cream cheese frosting using just butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla.

This recipe shows how to make basic whipped cream. For best results, make sure the whisk and bowl are ice cold.

This quick and easy sugar cookie icing recipe uses simple ingredients.

Wonderfully tart, classic English lemon curd, perfect with scones and tea.

Rich chocolate ganache adds bakery shop appeal to all your baked goods.

Fluffy peanut butter frosting is great on fudge brownies and chocolate cake.

The right icing can perk up any homemade cinnamon roll. Try this recipe for decadent cream cheese icing on your favorite cinnamon roll and you won't be disappointed.

This creamy buttercream frosting makes enough to cover a 9-inch layer cake or 24 cupcakes with chocolate deliciousness.

A decadent whipped cream and cream cheese frosting that has everyone asking if they can lick the bowl. It pipes very well.

This is a superb icing and does not take long to make.

Best chocolate frosting recipe I've found!

This is a wonderfully creamy frosting that goes well with pumpkin bread, carrot cake, chocolate cake, on cookies, or between cookies. If you want chocolate frosting, add 1/4 to 1/2 cup cocoa, according to how rich you want it.

This coconut and pecan frosting if perfect for German chocolate cake.

This is a classic pastry cream often used in bakeries and restaurants. It can be used as a filling for cakes, pies or pastries. To make a lighter filling, fold in plain whipped cream.

A glossy chocolate glaze to drizzle over a Bundt cake. It's also great on cookies and doughnuts.

Sweetened cream is flavored with vanilla and whipped until smooth and satiny in this recipe for a classic dessert topping, Chantilly cream.

An easy to make egg-free frosting that works great for decorating cookies for holidays, birthdays and parties. When you need to add coloring to icing, use color paste. If you use liquid coloring, you may need to add more confectioner's sugar.

A creamy white icing that looks like whipped cream.

This is a YUMMY whipped cream frosting that is very stable and does not melt at room temperature unlike many standard whipped cream frostings. It also makes a GREAT dip for fresh fruit -- not too sweet, just right! This recipe is GREAT for a stand mixer but will work with any good mixer.

This is a boiled fudge-like icing

A delicious, creamy filling on top of a light choux pastry gets glazed with a rich chocolate ganache. This dessert sounds fancy but it is so easy to make and it's a definite crowd-pleaser!

I wanted REAL strawberry frosting for my Real Strawberry Cupcakes and could not find an acceptable recipe. I wanted an intense strawberry taste without using an extract or gelatin. I came up with this recipe using a strawberry puree reduction that is truly the strawberry-est. If you love strawberries, you'll LOVE THIS!!!

A quick and simple recipe to turn fresh picked-strawberries into a decadent pie filling. Use to make pies, top cheesecakes, or just simply serve over ice cream.