After failing to find the perfect recipe for buttercream icing, I found one that worked for me and then added my own two cents.
Author: xoshadyxo
This recipe delivers a basic cream cheese frosting using just butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla.
Author: JJ
I use this glaze on brownies, Bundt® cake, ice cream, or whatever needs a little chocolate. It's rich, decadent, and oh so easy!
Author: Mary Taylor Dantzler
This is a simple recipe and makes a perfect homemade chocolate frosting every time!
Author: Rachel Kane
I have had this recipe for over 30 years. Cream may be substituted for the milk for added richness.
Author: MaryKaye
Egg whites beaten with cream of tartar, then sugar until those famous stiff peaks form...golly, that's good meringue! A nice, basic recipe.
Author: sal
The perfect fluffy frosting for brownies or chocolate cake. Sweet but not too sweet. Peanut buttery but not greasy. So wonderful and it won't over power your brownies!!!
Author: NICKIE75
This icing dries hard and shiny and the colors stay bright. Choose as many different food colorings as you desire.
Author: JBS BOX
This is a basic recipe that allows you to make the choice of how sweet it is. Top cupcakes and muffins and especially chocolate zucchini cakes with this icing.
Author: Kaley
This is a simple recipe for delicious cream cheese frosting. It has less powdered sugar than most recipes. That's one reason it tastes so good.
Author: live_love_cook
This straightforward recipe delivers moist, dense, and delicious carrot cake with pineapple under a cream cheese frosting.
Author: Tracy Kirk
Simple to make with only three ingredients with a variety of uses. Great to use over Bundt cake because it sets up nicely. The extra sauce may be refrigerated and reheated to serve over ice cream or your...
Author: TUNISIANSWIFE
A light tasting whipped frosting suitable for filling a rolled cake or whoopee pies. Great on angel food cake. Never fails as long as you don't let it cool uncovered or a skin will form on the paste.
Author: Ann
This is the type of frosting that is cooked over the stove, then whipped. This goes well on almost any type of cake.
Author: Vickie
This glaze is fresh and delicious. It uses real orange juice, not the stuff out of the container. It adds a real nice kick to angel food cake or any kind of loaf cake.
Author: cukatie2983
A glossy chocolate glaze to drizzle over a Bundt cake. It's also great on cookies and doughnuts.
Author: Ginger
A decadent whipped cream and cream cheese frosting that has everyone asking if they can lick the bowl. It pipes very well.
Author: Tom
This is a pure white wedding cake frosting. You can double the recipe if you have a sturdy mixer. Add milk according to purpose; you need less if you are making flowers or borders than if you are just...
Author: Jean Higginbotham
Delicious mellow coffee flavor makes this frosting a favorite on chocolate cake. Eat with a spoon or use to frost a cool cake.
Author: Samantha S
If you are looking for a good fudgy frosting for cake or cupcakes, this quick and easy recipe is the one you need.
Author: Carrie Reynolds
A two-ingredient, microwave chocolate ganache that will taste and feel like luxury truffles. The ganache can also be rolled into balls and coated in cocoa powder, if desired.
Author: Mishikall
After testing many recipes for cinnamon rolls I found that just about any home-made roll can be good if you have the right icing. In too many recipes the cream cheese flavor overpowers the icing. Use this...
Author: Cara McGuire
A creamy, no-cook peanut butter icing. Perfect on chocolate cake! Should be enough to ice 24 cupcakes or 1 cake.
Author: DSPTina
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...
Author: Candice
This frosting goes great on lemon cake, 7-up® cake, or lemon cookies.
Author: Janelle Williams Hawthorne
This icing recipe is #1! It's quick and easy to make, bright white for cake decorating, and you can easily change it's consistency! This is the most important icing recipe you'll ever have. It's so basic,...
Author: Meghan Rey
I've been using this chocolate frosting recipe forever, and several friends now use it as their 'favorite frosting!' It's smooth, creamy and not-too-dark. I just wanted to share it with chocolate lovers...
Author: Tracy Larsen
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,...
Author: Jo-Lynn Jansen
Add food coloring to decorate your favorite sugar cookies.
Author: Kathy Brandt
Everyone thinks that I got the cake from a professional bakery when I use this buttercream. It is fluffy and not too sweet, perfect for wedding cakes or layered with pound cake and fruit preserves. Tightly-wrapped,...
Author: Emo G.
This chocolate icing uses butter and brown sugar with plenty of confectioners' sugar for a quick frosting for your cake.
Author: Chas
A heavenly coating for any cake. Whipped cream is gently folded into sweetened cream cheese.
Author: Tom Parker
My mother used to make this as a base before making her marshmallow frosting on some of her cakes.
Author: Carol
For coffee lovers. A delicious mocha frosting. Perfect with chocolate, caramel, or white cakes.
Author: GINGER P
I wanted a frosting for a coconut layer cake that stood up to a stronger flavor without overpowering it and without being too sweet. If frosting a layer cake, I recommend spreading melted apricot preserves...
Author: Lilster
This frosting comes from my Mom. You can use it on made-from-scratch brownies, or give boxed brownies a special touch. Very rich and VERY good!
Author: CRUNCHM
This decadent chocolate buttercream frosting is a hit for any special occasion. It's rich, creamy, and simple.
Author: FoodJunkie
This frosting is great on many cakes, not the least of which is German Chocolate Cake.
Author: AUNT B
Sour cream brings the tangy to this quick and easy chocolate frosting recipe.
Author: Mary Beth Guba