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Frosting is a great way to add flavor and texture to your baked goods. Whether you are looking for something sweet, creamy, or even savory, there is a frosting recipe on this list that can help you create the perfect topping for your cakes, cupcakes, and other desserts. With the help of these 20 mouth-watering frosting recipes, you can easily make delicious frostings in no time flat.
Most people use the terms frosting and icing interchangeably. A professional would disagree stating that icing is thinner and glossier, while frosting is thicker and fluffier, generally used to coat the outside of a cake (pretty much word for word from the Cake cookbook from Williams-Sonoma Collection.
Whatever your definition, frosting and icing are a pretty sweet deal to finishing off your cake, cookies or cupcakes to perfection! From classic vanilla to champagne or beer frosting, choose one these sweet frosting recipes the next time you are looking for the perfect topping for your baked goods.
20 Easy Icing and Frosting Recipes
I don’t know about you, but I love frosting! For me, it is (by far) the best part of the cake (or cupcake). I have put together a collection of some easy to make frosting recipes, perfect for your cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and holiday treats! Yum!
● Chocolate Beer Frosting Recipe Make this fabulous homemade frosting the next time you are looking for a unique frosting recipe for your cake, brownies, or bars. This chocolate beer frosting recipe is simple to make, and is ready in just a few minutes. This chocolate frosting can be piped, textured, petaled, used a smooth frosting, and more!
● Bubbly Champagne Frosting Recipe | Life Is Poppin’
With its soft texture and sparkling flavor, Champagne Frosting is the perfect way to elevate any sweet treat. Whether you’re making cupcakes or a layer cake, this frosting will add an elegant finishing touch that your guests won’t soon forget.
● Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe
This chocolate buttercream frosting is creamy, delicious, and perfect for cakes, cookies, or cupcakes. This chocolate frosting is so rich, luscious, and easy to make you will never use store-bought frosting again!
● Blueberry Frosting Recipe
Blueberry Frosting is a delicious and versatile topping for cakes, cupcakes, and other desserts. Three ingredients is all you need to make this simple blueberry frosting.
● Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe Delicious, smooth and creamy cream cheese frosting! Colored or natural, cream cheese frosting ads a delicious tang to your favorite cakes, cupcakes and breakfast baked goods. Try this easy cream cheese frosting recipe today!
● Easy Coffee Frosting Recipe | My World Simplified
The coffee flavor is perfect and its hardly sweet at all. I was eating the frosting all by itself with a great coffee flavor that doesn’t overwhelm your taste buds but entices them!
● Coconut Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Coconut lovers rejoice! Bursting with coconut flavor this easy-to-make coconut frosting is a terrific buttercream frosting to use on desserts such as cookies, cupcakes, and cakes with a tropical flair.
● Fluffy Brown Sugar Icing Recipe | I Wash… You Dry
The brown sugar gives it a unique richness that can’t be found in other frostings. With its smooth texture and sweet taste, brown sugar frosting is sure to be a hit at any gathering or special occasion.
● Classic Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Recipe Classic, versatile, delicious vanilla buttercream frosting! The ideal frosting for cakes, cookies, cupcakes can be colored, sprinkled, piped and decorated to complete your sweet, perfectly.
● Homemade Sugar Cookie Icing Recipe | Hillbilly Housewife
● Kris Kringle Cookie Frosting Recipe
This is a traditional Christmas cut-out cookie frosting recipe!
● Italian Cream Frosting Recipe | Little Delight Cakes
Italian Cream Frosting is a delicious and creamy topping that can be used to top cakes, cupcakes, and other desserts. It has a rich flavor that comes from the combination of butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract.
● Italian Meringue Buttercream Recipe | Frugal Farm Wife
Italian Meringue Buttercream Icing is a naturally gluten-free recipe, and hands down my favorite wedding cake frosting recipe. Especially if it’s going under fondant. It’s so easy to get the fondant nice and smooth on top of this stuff.
● Peppermint Frosting Recipe
This easy to make peppermint frosting recipe will make people think you slaved all day in the kitchen
● Lemon Buttercream Frosting Recipe | Partylicious
Using one bowl and just four ingredients, you can whip up a batch of this deliciously easy lemon buttercream frosting in just 10 minutes!
● Strawberry Buttercream Frosting Recipe
This delicious homemade strawberry buttercream frosting is bursting with strawberry flavor. The secret is to use real, fresh strawberries to get an intense strawberry flavor. Level up your frosting game by making this strawberry frosting recipe for frosting your mouthwatering baked goods.
● Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
Peanut butter cream cheese frosting is a delicious and easy-to-make dessert topping. It is made by combining cream cheese, peanut butter, and sugar. This combination creates a smooth and creamy frosting that can be used to top cakes, cupcakes, or any other desserts.
● Pistachio Buttercream Recipe | Waiting for Blancmange
A pistachio buttercream frosting, perfect for giving a pistachio kick to your next bake. Easy recipe with only five ingredients, for a nutty and naturally green buttercream full of flavor!
● Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Keep this nearly foolproof Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting Recipe on hand for all your basic frosting needs. You can never go wrong with such a delicious and satisfying, classic frosting recipe like this one. Rich, creamy, and easy to whip up, this is sure to become one of your favorite go-to recipes when baking.
● Tahini Frosting Recipe | The Perfect Tide
This tahini frosting is the perfect fluffy and creamy frosting! With notes of nuttiness, sweet, and salty.
● You might also like this step-by-step How to Color Buttercream Frosting instructional.
First Published: April 02, 2015
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