A great frosting can turn any dessert into a showstopper. These recipes deliver rich flavors, smooth textures, and just the right amount of sweetness to complement your favorite cakes, cupcakes, and cookies. Each one is easy to make and guaranteed to make your bakes stand out, no matter the occasion.
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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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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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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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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Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
This silky smooth peanut butter cream cheese frosting will put a delicious twist on your favorite desserts! In this easy five-step recipe, I eliminate the butter and cut back the sugar to create a creamy, delicious balance of sweetness and rich peanut butter flavor. In just five minutes, you’ll have a finger-licking topping that you can use for frosting peanut butter cakes, cupcakes, cookies, or even ice cream!
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Coffee Buttercream Frosting
If you enjoy the taste of a fresh morning cup of coffee, wait until you try this coffee buttercream frosting! Made with a creamy vanilla buttercream base and fragrant espresso powder, this delicious coffee buttercream recipe will make your favorite desserts taste just like an iced latte!
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White Chocolate Frosting
Use this delicious, easy white chocolate frosting for cakes, cupcakes, and more to elevate them to new heights. It's rich and creamy, full of flavor, and perfectly balanced.
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Raspberry Cream Cheese Frosting
Fruity and delicious raspberry cream cheese frosting is the perfect topping for cakes and baked goods. It's full of raspberry flavor, a gorgeous pink color, and the silkiest, smoothest texture while still being stable enough to pipe.
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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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Raspberry Buttercream Frosting
If you love raspberries, you will love this easy raspberry buttercream frosting! This creamy frosting uses my American buttercream as a base and mixes it with fresh raspberry puree and lemon juice to create a natural flavor with the perfect balance of sweetness. It is a delicious addition to your favorite layer cakes, cupcakes, brownies, and cookies!
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Lemon Buttercream Frosting
This light and fluffy lemon buttercream frosting recipe has a bright flavor that is perfect for frosting or filling your favorite summer desserts! It combines a delicious vanilla buttercream frosting with the juice of fresh lemons to create a delightfully sweet cream with true citrus flavor. If you have been looking for the best lemon buttercream frosting for cakes, cupcakes, or cookies– you can stop your search here!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
This dark chocolate fudge frosting is ultra-rich, silky smooth, and simple to make with six ingredients and no powdered sugar. It's the best fudge frosting for topping cupcakes, cakes, fudge brownies, and more! It has the perfect balance of rich cocoa, butter, and cream, creating a smooth and velvety texture that melts in your mouth.
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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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Goat Cheese Frosting
Introducing the one-of-a-kind, easy goat cheese frosting recipe! That’s right, you heard me correctly. Are you ready to take your dessert game to the next level? This is not your ordinary frosting, folks. It’s a unique blend of tangy, creamy, and savory flavors, with just the right sweetness to balance it.
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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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