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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    Eggnog Cookies

    Cozy up during the holiday season with these soft and buttery eggnog cookies filled with warm spices and...


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    Pistachio Pudding Cake

    Easy, delicious and requiring zero expensive pistachios, our pistachio pudding cake is the ultimate crowd pleaser.


    Snowflake Cookie Ornaments

    Your cookie trays will twinkle with these festive snowflake cookies. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen


    Peanut Butter Blondies

    The kids I baby-sit for love these moist chewy bars. There's plenty of peanut butter flavor plus a yummy chocolate...


    Peanut Chocolate Cake

    Field editor Iola Engle from Bella Vista, Arkansas recommends a mouthwatering layer cake with peanut butter frosting. It's luscious!"—Iola Egle,...


    Lemon Meltaway Cookies

    These lemon meltaway cookies are soft, chewy and thanks to confectioners' sugar and a few other key ingredients, they'll melt...


    Sour Cream Walnut Cake

    Over the years, with much trial and error, I have developed into a good basic cook. It's so nice to...


    Hazelnut Mocha Torte

    This dessert is reminiscent of fine European cakes. I recently made it for my mother, who is German, and it...

    Special Mocha Cupcakes

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


    Walnut Banana Cupcakes

    What makes these tender banana cupcakes extra special is the nutmeg, but make sure it's fresh. They're amazingly good; I...


    Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes

    I got the recipe for these moist , filled cupcakes from a dear friend about 25 years ago. I have...


    Peanut Butter Truffle Cupcakes

    Everybody loves cupcakes, and these have a wonderfully tasty hidden treasure inside. They're rich and delicious! —Marlene Schollenberger, Bloomington, Indiana


    Chip Lover’s Cupcakes

    Making chocolate chip cookies is a challenge with three teenagers who are always grabbing the dough to "sample." Their love...


    Peanut-Filled Devil’s Food Cupcakes

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


    Gingerbread Cupcakes

    Satisfy your sweet tooth with our homemade gingerbread cupcakes with maple frosting, featuring the perfect blend of spices and sweetness.


    Coconut-Filled Chocolate Cupcakes

    If you are nuts about chocolate and coconut, this is definitely the cupcake for you. The chocolate ganache is so...


    Makeover White Texas Sheet Cake

    This tried and true recipe is absolutely delicious. Nearly 15 years ago, Joanie wrote, “With its creamy frosting and light...

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    German Apple Cake

    Bursting with pieces of juicy apple, warmly spiced with cinnamon and crowned with a sweet cloud of cream cheese frosting,...


    Coffee-Chocolate Cake

    This chocolate-coffee cake recipe makes a deliciously moist chocolate cake flavored with coffee. It's topped with an elegant buttercream frosting...


    Coconut Carrot Cake

    I found this recipe in a cookbook years ago. It's easy to make, and my family loves its moistness. It's...


    Frosted Cream Cheese Brownies

    Carol Gillespie from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania notes, "You'll never want to try another brownie recipe after eating these delicious treats."


    Blueberry Bars

    Our three sons like these bars so much that after they were married, each of my daughters-in-law asked for the...


    Mocha Yule Log

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

    Sour Cream Spice Cake

    Edna Hoffman, Hebron, Indiana, perks up a meal with this old-fashioned layer cake. The dense cake is rich in spices,...


    Cranberry-Carrot Layer Cake

    This moist cake smothered with rich cream cheese frosting makes any dinner festive. Every autumn, I go to a cranberry...


    Eggnog Cake

    A perfect treat to serve during the winter season, this gorgeous eggnog cake will be the talk of the holiday...


    Cranberry Layer Cake

    I adapted a Bundt cake recipe to create this layer cake. Cranberries, walnuts and homemade frosting make it taste so...


    Hawaiian Sunset Cake

    This three-layer sunset cake is pretty enough for company, but it's so simple to make that you'll find yourself baking...


    Best Chocolate Raspberry Torte

    How do you make already delicious chocolate cake even more decadent? By adding a heavenly raspberry filling and a lovely...