321 butter frosting recipes

Light ginger cookies rolled thin and cut into shapes, made with powdered sugar, butter, and a splash of vinegar. A delicate, crisp holiday cookie perfect for decorating with frosting.

Milky Way layer cake melts eight candy bars with butter into a chocolate-caramel-nougat batter for a moist Southern celebration cake. Tender crumb, rich frosting-friendly base, layered or sheet style.

Classic butter cookies with a hint of orange juice and vanilla, rolled and cut into shapes, then topped with a creamy buttercream frosting. A versatile holiday cookie perfect for decorating.

A classic French Buche de Noel with a light sponge cake rolled around chocolate butter cream filling, then coated in chocolate frosting scored to look like bark. The centerpiece of any Christmas table.

Mocha truffle cake: a flourless dark chocolate cake built with a pound of chocolate, a pound of butter, eight eggs, and strong coffee. Chilled overnight and frosted with vanilla whipped cream.

Texas-style sheath cake (sheet cake) baked on a cookie sheet with cocoa, buttermilk, and a full half pound of butter. Thin, fudgy, and frosted while still warm. A potluck legend.

Three-layer old-fashioned chocolate cake with cocoa frosting and chocolate chips baked into every layer. No eggs, no butter in the cake, just deep cocoa flavor and a tender crumb.

A from-scratch chocolate layer cake made with cocoa, buttermilk, cake flour, and both white and brown sugar. Creamed butter method for a velvety, tender crumb. Frost with your favorite icing.

Fudge cakes with melted unsweetened chocolate, butter, and chopped nuts in a light batter lifted with stiffly beaten egg whites. Somewhere between a brownie and a cake, frosted and cut into bars.

Butter pecan chocolate fudge in easy layers: a butterscotch-pecan base under smooth chocolate, topped with more chocolate. Made with frosting instead of a candy thermometer, so it's no-fail and no-bake.

Old-fashioned cream caramel icing for jam cake: just heavy cream, sugar, and butter cooked to soft-ball stage, then beaten until spreadable. The Southern frosting that turns any layer cake into a showpiece.

German sweet chocolate cake built on a chocolate cake mix base enriched with extra butter, buttermilk, and folded egg whites for a tender, tall three-layer cake. Designed for the classic coconut-pecan frosting on the tops only.

Old-fashioned double-lemon cake: a tender butter cake made with zest-infused lemon sugar, soaked in hot lemon-sugar glaze, and finished with lemon frosting. Served with rum-kissed lemon-zested strawberries for a bright spring dessert.

Creepy, fun Halloween eyeball cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream frosting, red food coloring veins, and candy eyeballs. A spooky treat kids love to decorate and devour at Halloween parties.

Coconut angel food cake folds shredded coconut into a fat-free egg-white batter, then frosts the cooled tube cake in seven-minute orange frosting and toasted coconut.

Lemon cream cupcakes with sour cream batter, fresh lemon zest, and a tangy lemon buttercream frosting. Moist, dense, and bursting with bright citrus flavor.