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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    Fig Cookies

    Packed with a variety of dried fruits and pecans, our lemon-glazed fig cookies are like Fig Newtons, but even more...


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    Rich Buttercream Frosting

    A few simple ingredients make a creamy frosting that finishes cakes, cupcakes and cookies. If you love making desserts, keep...


    Royal Icing

    Curious to learn how to make royal icing? Our Test Kitchen experts have mastered this royal icing recipe for this...


    Contest-Winning Chocolate Potato Cake

    I won grand champion honors in a potato festival baking contest with this moist chocolate cake. The icing recipe can...


    Frosted Raspberry Bars

    While visiting a friend, I tried one of these tempting treats that her daughter made. After one bite, I knew...


    Frosted Pumpkin Cranberry Bars

    With tangy dried cranberries tucked inside and a creamy brown butter frosting, these mildly spiced pumpkin bars are doubly delightful....


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    Glazed Apple Pie Bars

    This is only one of many wonderful recipes that my mother handed down to me. With their flaky crust and...


    Cemetery Cake

    Underneath tasty tombstones, ghosts, pumpkins, worms and soil that make this dessert a conversation piece, you'll find a delectable chocolate...

    Brownie Cake

    This chocolate brownie cake recipe layers fudgy brownies with homemade chocolate frosting for the ultimate brownie and cake combo.


    Orange Dream Cake

    We tried to save room for a big slice of this pretty cake. The flavor of orange and lemon really...


    Moist Carrot Cake

    This moist flavorful carrot cake always gets raves, but no one ever believes me when I reveal the secret ingredient...


    Lemon Orange Cake

    I like to bake this lovely three-layer lemon and orange cake instead of a more traditional pie for Thanksgiving. It...


    Frosted Pineapple Cookies

    These are the best pineapple cookies—sweet and moist with real tropical flavor. Because they are unique and look so pretty,...


    “Fishy” Red Velvet Cake

    Based on an old-fashioned recipe, this unusual birthday cake will steal the show at your party. The vibrant red color...


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    Mayonnaise Cake

    Yes, mayonnaise cake! This unconventional ingredient will produce the richest, tangiest chocolate cake of your life.


    Chocolate Chiffon Cake

    This chocolate chiffon cake may take some practice to perfect but once you do, it may be difficult to remember...


    Apple Walnut Cake

    There are fancy cakes that are light and fluffy, but when fall comes around you can’t get much better than...

    Caramel Apple Coffee Cake

    When you visit friends or relatives in my area of the country, you can be sure the coffee will be...


    Frosted Carrot Cake

    We have enjoyed this cake for years. Whenever there's a gathering of family and friends, it seems my cake is...


    Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cookies

    Although these cookies require a little extra effort, they’re worth it. I make them for every family gathering—and they never...