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
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
This straightforward recipe delivers moist, dense, and delicious carrot cake with pineapple under a cream cheese frosting.
Author: Tracy Kirk
This is a simple recipe and makes a perfect homemade chocolate frosting every time!
Author: Rachel Kane
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 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
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
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
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
This icing dries hard and shiny and the colors stay bright. Choose as many different food colorings as you desire.
Author: JBS BOX
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 heavenly coating for any cake. Whipped cream is gently folded into sweetened cream cheese.
Author: Tom Parker
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
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
A glossy chocolate glaze to drizzle over a Bundt cake. It's also great on cookies and doughnuts.
Author: Ginger
Best buttercream frosting--great for Aunt Mary's Chocolate Cake!
Author: Jennifer
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
This frosting is great on many cakes, not the least of which is German Chocolate Cake.
Author: AUNT B
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 frosting is enough to frost the top of one 9 inch...
Author: Dee Akeson
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
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 hue. Dries quickly.
Author: Cyndi
This decadent chocolate buttercream frosting is a hit for any special occasion. It's rich, creamy, and simple.
Author: FoodJunkie
My mother used to make this as a base before making her marshmallow frosting on some of her cakes.
Author: Carol
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
For coffee lovers. A delicious mocha frosting. Perfect with chocolate, caramel, or white cakes.
Author: GINGER P
This frosting takes approximately seven minutes to make.
Author: obertolas
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.
A creamy, no-cook peanut butter icing. Perfect on chocolate cake! Should be enough to ice 24 cupcakes or 1 cake.
Author: DSPTina
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
This frosting goes great on lemon cake, 7-up® cake, or lemon cookies.
Author: Janelle Williams Hawthorne
This makes a somewhat stiff frosting that tastes a bit like toffee and is perfect for covering fall desserts. From apple cakes to pumpkin cookies to cranberry-walnut cupcakes, this is my go-to frosting...
Author: VasaMN