Frosting & Icing
Cream cheese icing, maple glaze, and other finishes bring sweetness and texture to a bake. These frostings and icings offer options to spread, pipe, or pour as the recipe directs.
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Maple Cream Cheese Glaze with a Bourbon Kick
This glaze is pure decadence in drizzle form. Velvety cream cheese meets rich maple syrup for a sweet, earthy base that’s smooth and indulgent. A splash of bourbon…
Cream Cheese Icing for Red Velvet Cake
This elevated cream cheese icing is a sophisticated take on the classic pairing with red velvet cake. It boasts a luxuriously smooth texture and complex flavor profile, achieved…
Salted Caramel Buttercream
A sweet and salty caramel buttercream, perfect for frosting cakes and cupcakes or using as a cake filling. Ingredients 1 cup (227 g) unsalted butter, softened 3 cups…
Cupcake Easter Baskets
Ingredients 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 large egg, room temperature 1 teaspoon grated orange zest 2 cups cake flour 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon…
Strawberry Cupcakes
These strawberry cupcakes are moist, flavorful, and loaded with fresh strawberries! Frost them with strawberry frosting for strawberry perfection! Cupcake Ingredients 2 large eggs 1/3 cup full-fat sour cream 1 teaspoon vanilla extract…
Grandbaby Cakes’ Strawberry Cupcakes
Forget the strawberry cake made with cake mix! These homemade completely scratch strawberry cupcakes are a classic done right and delicious! Ingredients For the Cupcakes: 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar…
Grandbaby Cakes’ American Buttercream Frosting
This American Buttercream Frosting Recipe is fluffy, airy and light, sweet and whipped to serious perfection! You can use it on any cake, cookie or cupcake recipe because…
How to Make Royal Icing with Meringue Powder
Using only three ingredients, this royal icing recipe is great for decorating cookies, gingerbread houses and piping flowers. It dries hard, with a shiny smear-proof finish, and is…
Royal Icing and Natural Food Colorings
I use this recipe to frost sugar cookies for the holidays. I’ve included a bunch of natural food coloring variations at the bottom to make colors. — Erin…
Chocolate Ermine Buttercream
I used to call this “pudding buttercream” before I knew it’s true name: ermine. This technique involves preparing a simple pudding-style custard base, then whipping butter into it…
