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
I have had this recipe for over 30 years. Cream may be substituted for the milk for added richness.
Author: MaryKaye
This is a simple recipe and makes a perfect homemade chocolate frosting every time!
Author: Rachel Kane
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...
Author: NICKIE75
This straightforward recipe delivers moist, dense, and delicious carrot cake with pineapple under a cream cheese frosting.
Author: Tracy Kirk
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...
Author: Kaley
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...
Author: cukatie2983
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...
Author: Ann
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
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
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...
Author: TUNISIANSWIFE
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
A decadent whipped cream and cream cheese frosting that has everyone asking if they can lick the bowl. It pipes very well.
Author: Tom
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 glossy chocolate glaze to drizzle over a Bundt cake. It's also great on cookies and doughnuts.
Author: Ginger
A heavenly coating for any cake. Whipped cream is gently folded into sweetened cream cheese.
Author: Tom Parker
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...
Author: Jean Higginbotham
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...
Author: Mishikall
Best buttercream frosting--great for Aunt Mary's Chocolate Cake!
Author: Jennifer
Light and fluffy icing. Perfect for an angel food cake. You would swear it was a boiled frosting, all the taste, very little effort! I like to change it...
Author: Debi
This glaze will dry to a hard shiny finish. Perfect as a base coat for cookies. Can be colored too; use as much food coloring as needed to create desired...
Author: Cyndi
The secret of this light frosting is to mix it with a mixer for the recommended time at high speed. This incorporates air to make it light. 1-1/2 cups...
Author: Dee Akeson
This frosting is great on many cakes, not the least of which is German Chocolate Cake.
Author: AUNT B
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...
Author: Jo-Lynn Jansen
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...
Author: Lilster
A creamy, no-cook peanut butter icing. Perfect on chocolate cake! Should be enough to ice 24 cupcakes or 1 cake.
Author: DSPTina
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...
Author: Emo G.
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...
Author: Meghan Rey
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...
Author: Cara McGuire
My mother used to make this as a base before making her marshmallow frosting on some of her cakes.
Author: Carol
This chocolate icing uses butter and brown sugar with plenty of confectioners' sugar for a quick frosting for your cake.
Author: Chas
I wanted REAL strawberry frosting for my Real Strawberry Cupcakes and could not find an acceptable recipe. I wanted an intense strawberry taste without...
Author: Candice
This decadent chocolate buttercream frosting is a hit for any special occasion. It's rich, creamy, and simple.
Author: FoodJunkie
For coffee lovers. A delicious mocha frosting. Perfect with chocolate, caramel, or white cakes.
Author: GINGER P