Great fillings and frostings can take any dessert from simple to standout. These recipes come straight from the pros. Use them to add a touch of elegance to a homemade cake or elevate a batch of cupcakes. Each one is easy to follow and designed to deliver consistently impressive results.
Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
This creamy strawberry buttercream frosting is the delightful, fruity touch you've been looking for to top your favorite desserts! This easy recipe infuses my rich American buttercream with fresh strawberries, creating a smooth, fluffy, balanced frosting that will leave you licking your fingers. The best part is it only takes 10 minutes to make!
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Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting
Made with a combination of dark chocolate, heavy cream, and gelatin, whipped chocolate ganache frosting is a light and creamy way to decorate or fill your favorite cakes and pastries. Just follow this easy, step-by-step whipped ganache frosting recipe, and you'll have a flawless and decadent chocolate cream in no time!
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Caramel Filling
Try this homemade caramel filling for cupcakes, cakes, tartlets, brownies, pies, or any other desserts! It is so buttery and silky with balanced sweetness, plus it won't go hard. Even beginner bakers can make homemade caramel cake filling; it takes 5 minutes and has just four simple ingredients.
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Oreo Frosting
If you're a fan of Oreo cookies, you will absolutely love this creamy homemade Oreo frosting recipe! Top your favorite cakes and cupcakes with this delicious cookies and cream treat made with silky vanilla buttercream frosting and crushed Oreo cookies. With the perfect balance of sweetness and chocolate cookie flavor, it simply can't get any better!
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Nutella Frosting
Rich chocolate cake with Nutella frosting has to be one of the most popular birthday cake flavors and fillings. Because who doesn't love the rich and smooth chocolate hazelnut spread? The nutty flavor tames the sweetness slightly, but overall, this is a super decadent cake filling for serious chocoholics only. Make sure to try these Nutella cupcakes and Nutella cake.
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Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Here's the best Swiss Meringue Buttercream recipe so you can frost your cakes like a pro. It's silky, stable, and perfect for piping. What's more, it tastes delicious, too.
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Ermine Frosting
Ermine Frosting is silky, smooth, light, and fluffy. And while it's a type of buttercream, it isn't too sweet. Use this lesser-known cake frosting on your baked goods, and you'll never go back!
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German Buttercream
Easy German buttercream (or crème mousseline) is my favorite buttercream frosting. It's a simple pastry cream enriched with butter, so it is a bit more complex to make, but it isn't as sweet as American buttercream. It's super smooth and silky and the best cake filling for a variety of desserts, from layer cakes and cupcakes to French macarons.
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Cream Cheese Frosting
Make this delicious, velvety-smooth, easy-to-pipe cream cheese frosting in less than 3 minutes! Surely, cream cheese frosting is the perfect flavor combination for red velvet cake or spread onto brownies.
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Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
Whether nestled between layers of moist sponge cake or elegantly piped on top of your favorite cupcakes, strawberry cream cheese frosting is a burst of fruity and delicious pink perfection! Crafted with fresh strawberries cooked down into a perfectly sweetened jam and then whipped together with velvety cream cheese and rich butter, this heavenly cream cheese frosting strawberry style is easy to make and impossible to resist!
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Chantilly Cream
Known for its airy texture and slightly sweet, vanilla-infused flavor, this French chantilly cream will add a delightful, rich, and creamy element to all your favorite desserts! Whether you're making a cake, pie, or pastries, you can use this fluffy whipped cream to fill, frost, or accompany almost any sweet creation!
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Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Chocolate lovers gather around because this creamy chocolate buttercream frosting is a dream come true! This irresistible few-ingredient frosting is made 100% from scratch and puts a decadent, chocolatey twist on traditional American vanilla buttercream frosting. It is incredibly smooth, silky, and versatile, making it the perfect frosting to top all your favorite desserts!
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Russian Buttercream
If you find my American buttercream recipe too thick and sweet, my delicious vanilla Russian buttercream is here to save the day! Made with just two basic household ingredients, this flavorful, fluffy, condensed milk frosting is the perfect substitute for topping and filling your favorite cakes, cupcakes, and cookies!
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American Buttercream Frosting
This creamy, rich American buttercream frosting has an irresistible buttery, light vanilla flavor that pairs wonderfully with your favorite desserts! Using just five simple ingredients, it is easy to make and comes together in 10 minutes. It is the perfect finishing touch for cakes, cupcakes, and cookies!
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7-Minute Frosting
This easy 7-minute frosting is the perfect solution when you’re short on time and need a quick yet delicious topping for your favorite desserts! Using only egg whites and sugar as its two main ingredients, this old-fashioned frosting recipe has a light flavor and a fluffy, creamy texture that will take your pies, cakes, and cupcakes to the next level!
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Chocolate Cremeux
Chocolate cremeux has to be one of the best cake fillings and frostings. Crémeux au chocolat is made with five simple ingredients and has a silky texture that isn't too firm and isn't too soft. To conclude, chocolate crémeux is simply the perfect creamy topping or filling for your favorite pastries, tarts, and cakes like this Triple chocolate cake.
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Classic Crème Pâtissière
A classic crème pâtissière (vanilla pastry cream filling) is a creamy custard that is the perfect filling for cakes, eclairs, donuts, and tarts. It has a silky smooth texture and delicious vanilla flavor. My vanilla pastry cream filling recipe is easy to follow and comes together fast. You will love it!
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Mascarpone Frosting
This silky mascarpone frosting is the perfect addition to your cupcakes or cakes. Pipes beautifully and, unlike some other frostings, does not include tons of sugar, so it is very well balanced in sweetness. Make this delicious, velvety-smooth frosting in less than 5 minutes using 3 simple ingredients.
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Chocolate Whipped Cream Frosting
Chocolate whipped cream frosting is deliciously rich, creamy, and luxurious. It's a sweetened whipped cream flavored with cocoa powder and infused with vanilla, and it makes the perfect frosting, filling, or garnish for your desserts.
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Chai Cream Cheese Frosting
Chai cream cheese frosting is a velvety, creamy spread with the flavors of warm, aromatic chai spice. Prepared in minutes, this delectable frosting elevates cakes, cupcakes, waffles, and more with its unique, sweet, and enticing flavor. This chai spiced frosting combines the traditional creaminess of cream cheese frosting with the distinct aroma of chai spice.
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Chocolate Fudge Frosting
The best chocolate fudge frosting for cake recipes, cupcakes, and more! This chocolate fudge icing with cocoa powder, bittersweet chocolate, and a hint of coffee is the only easy chocolate fudge frosting you need! But it's not just for cake—since it's so easy to make, rich and decadent but not too sweet, it's perfect for adding another layer of chocolate to fudge brownies.
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Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
An amazing cake or cupcake is nothing without a delicious frosting to top it! This cinnamon cream cheese frosting is sweet, silky, tangy, and lightly spicy. The flavors are very balanced in this recipe, with the sugar, cream cheese, vanilla, and cinnamon helping to balance each other out and creating a versatile cake topping.
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Blueberry Buttercream
How beautiful is this blueberry buttercream? Its excellent color and flavor will have you invent new bakes to use it on! This blueberry buttercream is perfect for cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and more. The bright blueberry flavor and color (without a drop of food dye) are irresistible!
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Chocolate Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
This ultimate chocolate cinnamon cream cheese frosting is rich and fudgy while still maintaining the perfect tang from the cream cheese. Adding a little ground cinnamon takes this frosting to the next level and also adds a little holiday flare this time of year. It pairs well with most flavors, like chocolate, gingerbread, or any kind of fruit or spice, while helping to balance a rich or sugary dessert.
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