Frosting Recipes

Take your cakes and cookies to the next level with our frosting recipes, including our famous vanilla buttercream. You’ll find royal icing recipes and how-to’s here, too.

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Peppermint Schnapps Hot Cocoa Snowflakes

Mint and chocolate are perfect partners in these cutout cookies! —James Schend, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin


Lemon Blueberry Whoopie Pies

These whoopie pies are soft, cakey cookies studded with tart, juicy blueberries and filled with tangy cream cheese frosting. I...


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Carrot Spice Thumbprint Cookies

Carrot cake is a family favorite, and these delicious cookies with shredded carrots, dried cranberries, toasted walnuts, cinnamon and cloves...


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Summertime Fun Cookies

Use this basic sugar cookie recipe to make the perfect poolside treat. Kids (and adults) won't be able to get...

Nice ‘n’ Soft Sugar Cookies

My family’s all-time favorite Christmas cookie has had a million shapes over the years. Little ones have fun making their...


Grandma Brubaker’s Orange Cookies

At least two generations of my family have enjoyed the recipe for these light, delicate orange-flavored cookies. —Sheri DeBolt, Huntington,...

Root Beer Cookies

When it's too difficult to take along root beer floats on a picnic, take these cookies instead! I've found the...


Maple Pecan Cookies

When I bake cookies for the annual youth ski trip, I try at least one new recipe. When I received...


Go Bananas Whoopie Pies

I love anything with peanut butter, so when I saw this recipe for soft banana cookies with a yummy peanut...


Frosted Carrot Cake Cookies

I took my favorite carrot cake recipe and slightly tweaked it to make cookies. Just like the cake, the yummy...

Moist Carrot Cupcakes

If your kids think they don’t like carrots, just wait until these cinnamon-scented, lightly frosted little cakes hit the table....


Austrian Chocolate Balls

I love to prepare these chocolate balls for family gatherings, to share at work or when I have a craving...


Frosted Cookie Bouquet

If you're looking for an easy yet impressive cookie bouquet recipe, you've found it! In the spring, I cut these...


Citrus Gingerbread Cookies

Orange and lemon zest give gingerbread cutouts a refreshing twist. Brushing a honey glaze over the top adds a subtle...


Spritz Cookies

It was a tradition to make these cookies with my grandmother every Christmas. Now my two daughters help me make...

Frosted Molasses Cookies

If my family knows I've baked these cookies, they're sure to gobble them up in a hurry.


Butterscotch Gingerbread Men

The addition of butterscotch pudding makes these a little different than most gingerbread cutout recipes. The recipe comes from my...


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Tea Cakes with Butter Frosting

This is an old-fashioned recipe that was given to me by a friend's grandmother. You can easily tint the frosting...


Glazed Anise Cookies

Years ago, my German neighbor made similar cookies and hung them on her Christmas tree for the neighbor kids to...


Fruit ‘n’ Spice Rounds

While I was looking for a way to use up an abundance of dates, I came across this recipe. Made...


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Sponge Cake Cookies

My heart's warmed by these cookies because the recipe comes from my grandmother. No wedding, shower or holiday gathering went...


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Iced Orange Cookies

I usually make these bite-size orange cookies at Christmastime, when Florida citrus is plentiful, but they're delicious any time of...


Chocolate Marshmallow Meltaways

Kids are thrilled to find a marshmallow hidden under this cookie's cocoa frosting. I enjoyed these cookies as a child,...


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Orange Sugar Rollouts

When my children were young, we would bake and decorate these cookies every Christmas. Now I carry on the tradition...

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Handprint Turkey Cookies

Creating these tom treats is just as much fun as gobbling them up! When preparing this cookie recipe years ago,...


Gingerbread Cookies with Buttercream Icing

When it’s time to start the cookie-baking season, this recipe always kicks off the festivities. My mother-in-law first shared it...


Lemon Meltaways

Both the cookie and the frosting are spiked with lemon in these melt-in-your-mouth goodies. Your family won't be able to...