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Learn how to make frosting in so many flavors, from basic vanilla and chocolate buttercream to flavors like peanut butter, cream cheese frosting, and more. This is your one stop shop for every frosting you might want for any cakes, cupcakes, or cookies you make.

Close up of perfect vanilla cupcake with vanilla buttercream and topped with rainbow sprinkles

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Basic Frosting Recipes

I love a good frosting recipe and these easy ones are the best! These frosting recipes are perfect for cakes, cupcakes, cookies and more. From buttercream frosting to cheesecake frosting, these are the classic ones you’ll find on so many recipes. These can be used on anything from cakes to cupcakes, even cookies.

Buttercream Frosting Recipe
This is the BEST Vanilla Buttercream Frosting recipe and perfect to use on any layer cake, sheet cake or cupcakes. It's easy with just 5 ingredients and absolutely delicious.
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cupcake with vanilla frosting and sprinkles
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Recipe
BEST Chocolate Buttercream Frosting is my favorite easy all-purpose frosting. It's a whipped chocolate frosting that's homemade and goes great with yellow cake or chocolate cupcakes!
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The BEST Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
This Frosting is a simple frosting recipe perfect for cakes, for cookies, or for cupcakes! It goes great on red velvet, carrot cake cupcakes or any flavor you love!
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red cupcakes with frosting on top on a white plate.
Whipped Cream Frosting Recipe
Making Whipped Cream Frosting for a stable whipped cream – this easy frosting recipe is perfect for cakes, cupcakes, no bake desserts or even just to top fruit!
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cupcake with frosting in front and ones with sprinkles behind
Coconut Pecan Frosting Recipe
Gooey sweet frosting perfect for German Chocolate Cake. This is a cooked frosting with coconut and pecans!
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Fun Frosting Flavors

While the ones above are the classic frostings, it’s so easy to switch up flavors of icing to make even more delicious desserts. Add chocolate or peanut butter or even cookie dough!

Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting is the best frosting recipe for cupcakes, cake or cookies! This easy homemade frosting is from scratch with cocoa powder and cream cheese – it's so good.
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Chocolate cream cheese frosting in a glass dish
Peanut Butter Frosting
This easy peanut butter buttercream recipe is a from scratch buttercream full of peanut butter! It's creamy and the perfect frosting for cakes, cupcakes, or brownies!
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Cooked Sour Cream Frosting Recipe
This frosting is a cooked sour cream frosting recipe that is so easy to make! This chocolate cooked frosting is similar to ganache, but better.
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yellow cupcakes topped with chocolate sour cream frosting.
Oreo Frosting Recipe
This frosting recipe is made with real oreos to give the perfect cookies and cream taste! It is soft and delicious paired with any cupcake or cake recipe!
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oreo frosting on top of a chocolate cupcakes next to oreos.
White Chocolate Frosting Recipe
This frosting recipe is so fluffy and delicious. It goes so well with every flavor of cupcake and cake!
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Cookie Dough Frosting
These Cookie Dough Cupcakes are the best of both worlds! Use a box cake mix to make this recipe even easier.
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Chocolate cupcakes with cookie dough frosting and mini chocolate chips on top
Pumpkin Frosting Recipe
Easy Pumpkin Spice Cream Cheese Frosting and Mocha Frosting – these easy frosting recipes are perfect for cupcakes or shortbread cookie sandwiches!
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pumpkin frosting piped into a white ceramic dish.
Mocha Frosting Recipe
Mocha Frosting is an easy frosting recipe! Make Mocha Buttercream Frosting with cocoa and coffee to frost chocolate cake or chocolate cupcakes or brownies – this recipe is so good.
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Mocha frosting in a bowl with chocolate cupcakes around it
Marshmallow Frosting
These are my favorite EASY Rainbow Cupcakes! Start with a box mix for the cupcake but make a homemade marshmallow buttercream frosting and FOUR different ideas for topping!
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rainbow cupcake with white frosting and sprinkles.
Easy Marshmallow Meringue Frosting
Marshmallow Meringue Frosting – this easy recipe tastes like a melted fluffy marshmallow! It’s the perfect frosting recipe for cupcakes or to dress up pies, cookies, or brownies!
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Marshmallow Meringue Frosting
Coconut Buttercream Frosting Recipe
This is the best easy coconut buttercream frosting – perfect with brownies or cupcakes or cake!
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Caramel Buttercream Frosting Recipe
EASY Caramel Buttercream Frosting – this recipe works with any caramel sauce and is perfect frosting for cupcakes, cakes, cookies and so much more!
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brown cupcake with caramel frosting on top.
Rainbow Swirl Frosting Recipe
Rainbow Swirl Frosting is an easy rainbow buttercream recipe perfect for cupcakes, cakes or cookies! Learn how to make swirl frosting – it’s so pretty and easy to do.
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Overhead shot of rainbow swirl frosting on top of vanilla cupcakes
Sugar Cookie Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Decorate your sugar cookies with buttercream for the perfect easy decorated cookie.
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chocolate sugar cookies decorated with bright frosting

Whipped Creams & Fillings

Frosting is great, but if you’re looking for a filling or a lighter topping for your cake, these whipped creams and fillings are the perfect flavors.

Marshmallow Whipped Cream
This Marshmallow Whipped Cream is the perfect dip for fruit or cookies and it’s the perfect topping for pancakes, cake, brownies, pie, and ice cream!
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Marshmallow whipped cream in turquoise dish surrounded by strawberries
Best Whipped Cream Recipe
Fresh whipped cream is so easy to make and it’s so easy to adapt for your recipe. Add simple flavorings to your whipped cream for endless variations!
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A glass bowl filled with swirled whipped cream sits on a gray surface, hinting at a perfect whipped cream recipe, with a blurred whisk and piping tip in the background.
Easy Chocolate Ganache Recipe
Learn how to make this easy chocolate ganache for dipping, drizzling, or frosting. This is the most simple recipe!
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ganache on top of a chocolate cupcake in brown cupcake wrappers.
Easy Lemon Curd Recipe
This easy lemon curd recipe is perfect for breakfast or dessert! It’s easy and comes together in under 10 minutes.
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Lime Curd Recipe
Use limes, key lime juice, or even lemon to make the perfect curd at home. This recipe is easy and is done in under 10 minutes!
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A glass jar filled with creamy yellow lime curd, with a metal spoon inside. In the background, there are whole and halved limes on a light gray surface.
Peanut Butter Cake Filling Recipe
Learn how to make peanut butter filling for cake – this is an easy recipe that's perfect with any cake flavor!
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one slice of yellow cake with peanut butter frosting.

Dorothy’s Tips for Making Frosting From Scratch

  • Start with softened butter and be sure to beat it first, before adding powdered sugar, so it’ll mix smoother.
  • Use an electric mixer (stand mixer) if you have one.
  • My secret ingredient: heavy whipping cream! This gives it so much flavor and a silky smooth texture.
  • Learn to pipe frosting like a pro!

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  1. Which of these frosting recipes is most stable for decorating cakes & cupcakes so it won’t melt out of refrigeration?

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