Frosting Recipes

Once your cake, cupcakes, cookies, and bars are baked it is time for decorating and the first thing you need to do is select the frosting recipe that you want to use. There are many options for frosting recipes, but generally a recipe will have a frosting suggested to use. Many frostings can be used interchangeably between different types of cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and bars.

The frosting recipes included here are some of the common frostings used when decorating cakes and other desserts. There are some frostings that are best suited for frosting a cake or cupcakes, rather than cookies and bars, such as meringue-style frosting recipe and boiled frosting. Royal icing frosting is used more for decorating than as an overall frosting. When you are trying to do fine detail cookie decorating, royal icing works well but if you are doing detailed cake decorating, a buttercream or cream cheese frosting recipe may work best. When you are decorating with any of these frosting recipes you may have to adjust the consistency of the frosting, depending on what type of decorating you are doing.

The frosting recipes provided are some of the most common frostings used but realize that you will find there are many variations of these frosting types available.

Frosting Recipes