Icing Recipes
Worth licking the spoon
Let’s be honest. Sometimes the icing is the best part. And that’s especially true when it’s homemade. This collection includes some of my favorite frosting, glaze, and icing recipes for all kinds of desserts.
Cream cheese icing takes a delightfully fluffy turn in our latest recipe, perfect for topping your favorite cakes and cupcakes. With just the right balance of creaminess and sweetness, it’s a game-changer for dessert lovers looking for an easy yet impressive way to elevate their baking.
When you want to decorate Valentine’s Day or holiday sugar cookies, this recipe will show you how to make red royal icing that is really red (not pink!).
This luscious black chocolate buttercream frosting boasts a rich, deep flavor with a striking dark hue, perfect for adding an elegant touch to your desserts. Made with dark cocoa powder, a hint of black food coloring and a couple of color-darkening tricks, it delivers a smooth, creamy texture that’s both visually stunning and deliciously indulgent.
This strawberry cream cheese frosting recipe combines the tangy richness of cream cheese and butter with the sweet flavor of strawberry jam, creating a perfectly balanced and spreadable topping for cakes and cupcakes. With simple ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions, it promises a deliciously smooth and flavorful finish to your favorite desserts.
Making your own frosting is easier than you think, and the results are well worth it. In this recipe, we’ll show you how to make fluffy chocolate buttercream frosting that’s perfect for topping cupcakes or icing cakes.
Whether you’re decorating sugar cookies for Valentine’s Day, a baby shower, wedding or any other event, this recipe will show you how to make pink royal icing in the exact color you want – whether that’s light pink, dark pink, hot pink or mauve pink.
After many attempts, I finally found the best recipe to make black royal icing that doesn’t taste terrible and really is black! The right brand of food coloring and a little cocoa powder helps. But I’ll show you how to make it without black food coloring too.
This royal icing recipe is what you need if you’re looking for sugar cookie icing that hardens. It’s really easy to make (and use) once you know the secret of getting it to the right consistency.
Made with chocolate chips, cocoa powder and butter, this semi sweet chocolate frosting is super rich and chocolate-y. With the perfect texture for icing a cake or piping cupcakes, it will make your favorite dessert recipes even more decadent.
