This coconut frosting is smooth, creamy, delicious, and packed with coconut flavor. It’s the perfect topping for cakes, cupcakes, brownies, and so much more!

One of my goals this year has been to share more frosting recipes with you. Because let’s be honest, nothing makes a cake, or a batch of cupcakes, more than the actual frosting itself. So today I’m sharing my current favorite flavor, this easy coconut frosting!

Why You Will Love This Recipe

• Only requires five ingredients. That’s including vanilla and coconut extract!
• It has the perfect balance of coconut flavor. Thanks to the coconut extract and some canned coconut milk.
• Takes less than 10 minutes to mix together. Just like my classic buttercream frosting, this recipe is incredibly simple.
• Super versatile! I’ve used this recipe on my coconut cake and coconut cupcakes.

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This brown butter frosting is smooth, creamy, and made with just five ingredients! It pipes beautifully making it perfect for chocolate or vanilla cupcakes, but it’s also delicious spread on top of my homemade applesauce cake!

Say hello to my current frosting obsession – brown butter frosting!

This delicious creation is adapted from my homemade buttercream frosting, which has been a huge reader favorite for years. But, instead of just using regular butter we’re incorporating some browned butter.

The end result is a creamy frosting with a delicious toasted, nutty flavor. The best part? It’s made with just five ingredients (that’s including some vanilla and salt!) and it pipes like a dream.

Recipe Ingredients

• Butter: I recommend sticking with unsalted butter for this recipe. I found that only browning half of the butter added tons of flavor without being overpowering.

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This is the only royal icing recipe you will ever need! It’s made with just a few simple ingredients, comes together quickly, and always turns out perfect.

Several years ago I shared my easy sugar cookie icing and it’s become a huge reader favorite – especially this time of year. Since then, I’ve had several requests for a royal icing recipe that wasn’t too difficult. So today I’m sharing my favorite royal icing recipe!

This recipe uses just five ingredients (no raw egg whites!) and is practically fool-proof. It does take a little longer to mix together, but it’s still easy to whip up.

Whether you’re new to cookie decorating or you’ve been decorating cookies for years, this is one recipe you will want to save. This post covers everything you need to know – from all of the different royal icing consistencies to my favorite cookie decorating tools and even how to decorate your cookies too!

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Made with just a few ingredients, this lemon buttercream frosting is perfect for topping your favorite cakes, cupcakes, and cookies. Its bright lemony flavor makes it the perfect complement to berry desserts too!

Homemade lemon buttercream is far superior to any store-bought variety. It’s much fluffier in texture, while still remaining rich and creamy.

To fully infuse the buttercream frosting with lemon flavor, I incorporated both freshly squeezed lemon juice and zest. The lemon zest is key as it imparts bold lemon flavor without the added moisture or acidity of lemon juice.

This lemon frosting is extremely versatile as well! It’s perfect piped atop your favorite cakes, cupcakes, and cookies and can be made in advance if needed.

Ingredients You’ll Need for This Recipe

This is a very straightforward frosting recipe that requires minimal ingredients. I’ll quickly review what you’ll need to make it:

• Lemons: You will need 2 medium lemons or 1 large lemon to have enough juice and zest for the frosting.

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Thick and creamy German chocolate cake frosting is studded with pecans and sweetened shredded coconut. It’s perfect for icing a classic German chocolate cake as well as brownies, cupcakes, and more!

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This truly is the best ever sugar cookie icing! It hardens without becoming too crunchy, is full of vanilla flavor, and can be colored to suit any holiday. 

Making homemade icing for sugar cookies is incredibly easy and requires just four basic ingredients, plus some food coloring.

After testing this recipe many times, I can confidently say that it pipes easily (both for outlining cookies and filling them!), tastes delicious, and sets up nicely. 

Customize your homemade icing with whatever food coloring you’d like to suit the occasion, or transform one batch into multiple colors. When it comes to decorating sugar cookies, the sky is the limit!

Ingredients for This Recipe

To make homemade sugar cookie icing, you’ll need the following ingredients:  

• Powdered Sugar: Also known as confectioners sugar or icing sugar, this is the main component of the icing.

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Just a few basic ingredients are needed to make homemade strawberry frosting! This is the perfect summer frosting for cakes, cupcakes, and more. 

This is a no-frills strawberry buttercream frosting that delivers perfect results every time. 

My secret? Freeze dried strawberries! They don’t have to be cooked down on the stove like fresh strawberries, won’t curdle the buttercream, and are easy to find at any major grocery store chain. 

You can make a big batch of frosting to use on cakes and cupcakes, or freeze some for future baking projects. It pipes like a dream and pairs well with white, yellow, and chocolate cakes. 

Keep this frosting recipe on hand for your summer baking. It’s incredibly versatile and so easy to prepare!

Ingredients for Strawberry Frosting 

This recipe calls for just five basic ingredients, plus a pinch of salt to balance out the sweetness of the frosting.

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Ermine frosting is an ultra creamy frosting that’s made with a mixture of boiled milk, flour, and sugar mixed with butter. It’s less sweet than traditional buttercream, but its whipped texture and rich flavor make it the ideal choice for red velvet cakes and cupcakes! 

What Is Ermine Frosting? 

Ermine frosting goes by several other names, including roux frosting, flour frosting, or boiled milk frosting. It’s made by cooking a mixture of flour, sugar, and milk into a thick paste on the stove. Once the mixture has cooled, it’s then mixed into butter.

The end result is a frosting that’s less sweet than American buttercream frosting and has a whipped texture. It’s much simpler to make than other cooked frostings, like Swiss meringue buttercream, although it does require a little elbow grease to prepare. 

Ermine frosting is the frosting of choice for red velvet cakes and cupcakes, but it pairs well with almost any type of cake.

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This Swiss meringue buttercream is smooth, creamy, and less sweet than traditional American buttercream. Perfect for cakes, cupcakes, cookie sandwiches, and more!

Did you know there are multiple ways to make buttercream frosting? There’s your typical American buttercream frosting, as well as Italian meringue frosting and French buttercream. 

In this post, I’ll be walking you through the steps for making Swiss meringue buttercream frosting from scratch. Swiss meringue buttercream is made by heating eggs whites and sugar over a double boiler, beating the mixture to stiff peaks, then mixing in some butter and vanilla extract.

The end result is a frosting that’s smooth, creamy, and less sweet than American buttercream frosting.

Recipe Ingredients 

Swiss buttercream calls for five basic ingredients. As long as you know how to combine them properly, these basic ingredients will result in the creamiest frosting! 

• Egg Whites: Make sure no egg yolks sneak into the egg whites, otherwise the meringue may not whip up properly.

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Learn how to make buttercream frosting with this easy tutorial. This is the BEST recipe for homemade buttercream, it pipes perfectly, and makes a great base for other frosting flavors too!

Today we’re covering how to make buttercream frosting. Actually, we’re covering just how EASY it is to make your own frosting right at home. If you’ve been buying store-bought, you’ll want to ditch it after seeing just how easy it is to make your own.

I originally published this recipe in January of 2017, but decided it was finally time to update it with better instructions and more information. In today’s post, I’m breaking down everything you need to know about how to make the best buttercream frosting.

This recipe also makes a great base for so many different flavor variations. The possibilities are really endless, but I’ve included four different variations for you to try!

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