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Shiny Cookie Icing Recipe - Make a batch of easy colored frosting for decorating your sugar cookies. It sets up hard and shiny. Color the frosting with food coloring to your desired shade.

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Shiny Cookie Icing

Make a batch of easy colored frosting for decorating your sugar cookies. It sets up hard and shiny. Color the frosting with food coloring to your desired shade.

By VeganCourtney

Scrumptious Penuche Frosting Recipe - This scrumptious caramel-flavored frosting is the perfect frosting for any yummy cake.

Scrumptious Penuche Frosting

This scrumptious caramel-flavored frosting is the perfect frosting for any yummy cake.

By HappyBakerBrittany

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Vegan Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting Recipe - This vegan take on peanut butter frosting is creamy and spreadable, perfect with vegan peanut butter cookies or chocolate cupcakes.

Vegan Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting

This vegan take on peanut butter frosting is creamy and spreadable, perfect with vegan peanut butter cookies or chocolate cupcakes.

By JUDYLT

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Maple Buttercream Frosting Recipe - Buttercream frosting with a generous serving of maple syrup is a sweet addition to your favorite pie, cake, or cookie.

Maple Buttercream Frosting

Buttercream frosting with a generous serving of maple syrup is a sweet addition to your favorite pie, cake, or cookie.

By Sarah

Smooth Double Chocolate Frosting Recipe - Semisweet and white chocolate chips are melted and beaten with cream and sugar creating a smooth and creamy chocolate frosting that always gets rave reviews.

Smooth Double Chocolate Frosting

Semisweet and white chocolate chips are melted and beaten with cream and sugar creating a smooth and creamy chocolate frosting that always gets rave reviews.

By nurseluther

Easy Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe - A cream cheese frosting recipe with just the right amount of sweetness comes together in minutes.

Easy Cream Cheese Frosting

A cream cheese frosting recipe with just the right amount of sweetness comes together in minutes.

By live_love_cook

Smooth Buttercream Frosting Recipe - This flavorful icing is ideal for decorating. It may be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to a week. Re-whip before using.

Smooth Buttercream Frosting

This flavorful icing is ideal for decorating. It may be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to a week. Re-whip before using.

By morabam2011

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Real Strawberry Frosting Recipe - This strawberry frosting is made with real strawberries for an authentically flavored and colored cupcake topping.

Real Strawberry Frosting

This strawberry frosting is made with real strawberries for an authentically flavored and colored cupcake topping.

By Candice

Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting Recipe - Combining softened butter with confectioners' sugar and marshmallow creme makes a cake frosting that's light, sweet, and easy to work with. A hint of almond extract adds flavor.

Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting

Combining softened butter with confectioners' sugar and marshmallow creme makes a cake frosting that's light, sweet, and easy to work with. A hint of almond extract adds flavor.

By Staci Lambert

Cream Cheese Frosting II Recipe and Video - This cream cheese frosting is perfecting for icing pumpkin bread, carrot cake, chocolate cake, and cookies. Plus it uses only four ingredients!

Cream Cheese Frosting II

This cream cheese frosting is perfecting for icing pumpkin bread, carrot cake, chocolate cake, and cookies. Plus it uses only four ingredients!

By Janni

Sugar Cookie Icing Recipe and Video - This is a quick and easy frosting recipe using ingredients you most likely already have on hand. Use whatever food colors you like!

Sugar Cookie Icing

This is a quick and easy frosting recipe using ingredients you most likely already have on hand. Use whatever food colors you like!

By JBS BOX

Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting Recipe and Video - Peanut butter and confectioner's sugar make a fluffy frosting that is perfect for brownies or chocolate cake.

Fluffy Peanut Butter Frosting

Peanut butter and confectioner's sugar make a fluffy frosting that is perfect for brownies or chocolate cake.

By NICKIE75

Creamy Chocolate Frosting Recipe and Video - This smooth buttercream frosting makes enough to cover a 9-inch layer cake or 2 dozen cupcakes with chocolate deliciousness.

Creamy Chocolate Frosting

This smooth buttercream frosting makes enough to cover a 9-inch layer cake or 2 dozen cupcakes with chocolate deliciousness.

By Tracy Larsen

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Whipped Cream Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe and Video - A delicate cream cheese frosting that has whipped cream folded into it.

Whipped Cream Cream Cheese Frosting

A delicate cream cheese frosting that has whipped cream folded into it.

By Tom

Sugar Cookie Frosting Recipe and Video - Confectioners' sugar and shortening make a quick and easy frosting for your favorite cookies.

Sugar Cookie Frosting

Confectioners' sugar and shortening make a quick and easy frosting for your favorite cookies.

By Kathy Brandt

Satiny Chocolate Glaze Recipe and Video - A glossy chocolate glaze to drizzle over a Bundt cake. It's also great on cookies and doughnuts.

Satiny Chocolate Glaze

A glossy chocolate glaze to drizzle over a Bundt cake. It's also great on cookies and doughnuts.

By Ginger

Buttercream Icing Recipe and Video - This egg-free buttercream frosting recipe uses just five ingredients to achieve the traditional flavor you love. It's perfect for decorating cookies and cupcakes.

Buttercream Icing

This egg-free buttercream frosting recipe uses just five ingredients to achieve the traditional flavor you love. It's perfect for decorating cookies and cupcakes.

By Sharon Gerstman

Special Buttercream Frosting Recipe and Video - This recipe makes an ideal buttercream for frosting cakes and decorating them with borders.

Special Buttercream Frosting

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

By Rick Mazzuca

Marshmallow Fondant Recipe and Video - Made with mini marshmallows, this tasty rolled fondant is easier than a traditional boiled fondant.

Marshmallow Fondant

Made with mini marshmallows, this tasty rolled fondant is easier than a traditional boiled fondant.

By Kiele Briscoe

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Basic Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe - This recipe delivers a basic cream cheese frosting using just butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla.

Basic Cream Cheese Frosting

This recipe delivers a basic cream cheese frosting using just butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, and vanilla.

By JJ

Quick and Almost-Professional Buttercream Icing Recipe and Video - Our favorite creamy and fluffy buttercream frosting that is still perfect for piping and decorating. Tint with food coloring for any occasion.

Quick and Almost-Professional Buttercream Icing

Our favorite creamy and fluffy buttercream frosting that is still perfect for piping and decorating. Tint with food coloring for any occasion.

By xoshadyxo

Chocolate Ganache Recipe and Video - This is a rich, dark chocolate topping or decoration that has lots of uses. It can be whipped as filling or icing, or just poured over whatever cake you like.

Chocolate Ganache

This is a rich, dark chocolate topping or decoration that has lots of uses. It can be whipped as filling or icing, or just poured over whatever cake you like.

By INGRIDEVOGEL

Sturdy Whipped Cream Frosting Recipe and Video - 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, just right! This recipe is GREAT for a stand mixer but will work with any good mixer.

Sturdy Whipped Cream Frosting

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, just right! This recipe is GREAT for a stand mixer but will work with any good mixer.

By Jo-Lynn

Whipped Cream Recipe and Video - How to make basic whipped cream. For best results make sure whisk and bowl are ice cold.

Whipped Cream

How to make basic whipped cream. For best results make sure whisk and bowl are ice cold.

By Paula

Rolled Buttercream Fondant Recipe and Video - This rolled fondant recipe uses shortening and confectioner's sugar for a buttercream flavor with the appearance of traditional fondant.

Rolled Buttercream Fondant

This rolled fondant recipe uses shortening and confectioner's sugar for a buttercream flavor with the appearance of traditional fondant.

By Kelley

Rick's Special Buttercream Frosting Recipe - Use this recipe to get an ideal buttercream for frosting and borders on cakes, cupcakes, or even cookies.

Rick's Special Buttercream Frosting

Use this recipe to get an ideal buttercream for frosting and borders on cakes, cupcakes, or even cookies.

By Rick Mazzuca

Butter Cream Frosting II Recipe - This quick and easy buttercream is made with margarine and shortening, just like the in-store bakeries!

Butter Cream Frosting II

This quick and easy buttercream is made with margarine and shortening, just like the in-store bakeries!

By Kris

Chocolate Frosting I Recipe - Great texture and color as well as taste. Smooth and easily spread, this frosting turns any cake, cookie, or cupcake into something deliciously special.

Chocolate Frosting I

Great texture and color as well as taste. Smooth and easily spread, this frosting turns any cake, cookie, or cupcake into something deliciously special.

By Tia the Baker

Cool Whipped Frosting Recipe and Video - A light and cool topping vaguely resembling Bavarian cream.

Cool Whipped Frosting

A light and cool topping vaguely resembling Bavarian cream.

By shirleyo