Frosting and Icing Recipes

Quick and easy frosting for your favorite sugar cookies; color as desired!

A creamy white icing sans powdered sugar that resembles whipped cream.

Cream cheese is mixed with heavy cream to make a stable whipped cream.

An easy to make egg-free frosting that works great for decorating cookies for holidays, birthdays and parties. When you need to add coloring to icing, use color paste. If you use liquid coloring, you may need to add more confectioner's sugar.

Glossy, 4-ingredient chocolate drizzle for Bundt cake, cookies, and donuts.

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 favorite dessert. I came up with this once when I didn't have any confectioner's sugar to make a glaze for a Bundt cake.

Peach filling is prepared ahead of time and frozen inside a pie plate. When ready to bake, simply place it in a crust-filled pie plate of the same size, and bake.

This is a delectable lemon curd recipe with the added attraction of being quick and easy to make. It is particularly useful when entertaining and short on time.

This is the type of frosting that is cooked over the stove, then whipped. This goes well on almost any type of cake.

Mix butter and brown sugar with powdered sugar for an easy stovetop icing.

This recipe makes a tasty, not overly sweet or starchy, blueberry pie filling.

When life gives you a bunch of limes, make lime curd! This twist on traditional lemon curd uses limes instead. Use it as a cake filling, or any other way you desire.

This is an easy frosting recipe I have tweaked to my liking after a few tries. It is very tasty and is pretty easy to make.

This fresh-tasting tangy lemon cream cheese frosting is super easy to make.

The paste is used to hold together pastries, cakes, and other dishes that come from Japan, most commonly desserts.

A delicious, creamy filling on top of a light choux pastry gets glazed with a rich chocolate ganache. This dessert sounds fancy but it is so easy to make and it's a definite crowd-pleaser!

This is a very easy (and a little sticky at times) way to make a delicious fondant. It's great on cakes, cookies, or just for your little ones to play with! Leftovers will save in a tightly sealed container for a few weeks.

Best buttercream frosting--great for Aunt Mary's Chocolate Cake!

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, it makes the hassle of cake decorating so much easier! If you wish, use half shortening and half unsalted butter.

Great on Apple Cookies!

This recipe makes an ideal buttercream for frosting cakes and decorating them with borders.

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.

Rich frosting, great on Banana Spice Cookies.

Perfect for any cake!