Frosting and Icing

Frosting, Icing, And Cake Decorating Photo Gallery
View the pictures of some of our favorite frosting, icing, and cake decorating recipes!

Creamy Cream Cheese
Cream cheese frosting is the traditional frosting for carrot cake, but it goes great on lots of other cake flavors as well.

Final Touches
If you're looking to add some additional decor to your desserts, try some of these recipes for pretty items like candied rose petals, colored sugar, and chocolate leaves.

Chocolate Frosting
Chocolate frosting is always a favorite and our 5-star recipes will sure to be the "icing on the cake". Try a traditional chocolate buttercream, a whipped cream version, or the popular 1 minute chocolate frosting

Fondant: This is an icing made of sugar syrup and glucose, which is cooked to a specific temperature and then kneaded to a smooth, soft paste. This paste can then be colored or flavored and used as an icing for cakes and petit fours.

Pipe: To force a food (typically frosting or whipped cream) through a pastry tip to use as a decoration or garnish, or to shape dough, such as that for eclairs.

Creamy Frosting: If you add a pinch of baking powder to powdered sugar when making frosting, it will stay creamy and not harden or crack.

Icing: To prevent icing from running off your cake, try dusting the surface lightly with icing sugar or corn starch before using.

Bunny Cakes & Buttercream Roses
Buttercream roses. It has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? And it’s a phrase that sure grabbed my daughter’s attention. Buttercream roses entered our life with the book Bunny Cakes by Rosemary...

A "Healthy" Slice of Birthday Cake
For some reason, many members of my family were born in the fall. I guess Valentine’s Day was a big deal for many of my relatives! The only complaint I have about the plethora of autumn birthdays is...