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Frosting

Every good cupcake or cake needs a trusty frosting recipe. Lucky for you, I have tons of easy frosting recipes to choose from. Cold butter is my secret weapon for making homemade frosting that’s perfect to pipe over your cakes, cupcakes, sugar cookies, and more.

This Perfect Vanilla Buttercream Frosting is always a great place to start. There are so many variations to try! Or, try my best Cream Cheese Frosting for a tangy twist (it’s delicious with red velvet and carrot cake!). Plus, I have helpful tutorials, from How to Color Buttercream, How to Use a Piping Tips and How to Use a Piping Bag with tons of tips and tricks.

My Must-Have Frosting Recipes

These are the frosting recipes I always come back to again and again (and again, and again). They’re perfect as they are, and also crazy-versatile!

A small jar of piped vanilla frosting with a teal napkin and piping bag next to it

Perfect Vanilla Frosting

A close up of a chocolate cupcake decorated with chocolate frosting

The Best Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

A close up of a frosted cupcake with a strawberry

Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Assorted cut-out Christmas sugar cookies decorated with sugar cookie icing.

Easy Sugar Cookie Icing

Popular Homemade Frosting Recipes

Take a look at the frosting our readers have been (literally) whipping up lately. Don’t you want to just eat these with a spoon?

Latest Easy Frosting Ideas

Can you ever have too many frosting recipes? I think not. Below you’ll find all my latest easy buttercream recipes and frosting flavors.

Chocolate fudge frosting swirled in a glass jar, with a second jar of frosting and a piping bag in the background.

Chocolate Fudge Frosting

A piped swirl of mascarpone whipped cream in a glass jar.

Mascarpone Whipped Cream

A jar of salted caramel sauce with sauce dripping down the side, next to a spoon.

Salted Caramel Sauce

A piped swirl of cereal milk whipped cream in a glass bowl on a countertop, surrounded by Fruity Pebbles cereal.

Cereal Milk Whipped Cream

A glass of white chocolate ganache next to scattered white chocolate pieces.

White Chocolate Ganache

Whipped ganache frosting piped in a glass jar.

Whipped Ganache Frosting

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Pastry Cream (Crème Pâtissière)

Rainbow chip frosting in a glass jar on a countertop.

Rainbow Chip Frosting

Chocolate ganache in a glass tumbler.

How to Make Chocolate Ganache

Coffee frosting piped into a glass jar, next to more frosting in a piping bag.

Coffee Frosting

A glass jar filled with a piped swirl of brown butter frosting, with a second jar and a piping bag in the background.

Brown Butter Frosting

Strawberry frosting swirled inside a glass jar next to a piping bag.

Strawberry Frosting

A row of vanilla cupcakes topped with swirls of teal frosting, piped with various piping tips.

How to Decorate Cupcakes

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How to Use Piping Tips

Swirled peanut butter frosting in a glass jar.

Easy Peanut Butter Frosting

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How to Use a Piping Bag

Homemade lemon curd in a glass jar surrounded by fresh lemons.

Homemade Lemon Curd

A teal dish filled with a piped whipped cream swirl.

How to Make Whipped Cream

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How to Color Buttercream

A slice of frosted chocolate peanut butter cake on a white plate.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake