Let's be honest: the frosting is half the reason anyone eats cake in the first place. These homemade recipes blow store-bought tubs out of the water, and they're way simpler to make than you'd expect with just a mixer and a few minutes. They're smooth, creamy, and dangerously easy to eat straight from the bowl with a spoon.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Homemade Cherry Pie Filling
This homemade cherry pie filling recipe is a fast, foolproof way to capture the sweet-tart flavor of fresh cherries in one spoonable filling or sauce. It comes together in just 10 minutes with a handful of simple ingredients and can be used for pies, cakes and pastries, or as an ice cream topping. Creating a homemade pie filling has never been easier.
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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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Cranberry Pie Filling
Cranberry pie filling is very easy to make. You just need a few ingredients, and it’s a very easy dessert to make. With its festive color, this is the perfect dessert to put into pies, cookies, cakes, and so much more. Make other cranberry desserts like muffins, cupcakes, cakes, fruit pie, crumbly streusel, and apple cranberry pie. Or, you can make a cranberry pumpkin pie.
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