132 cake icing recipes

Homemade banana layer cake with mashed ripe banana and buttermilk for a moist, tender crumb. A classic two-layer cake ready to frost with your favorite icing.

Pink maraschino cherry layer cake with cherry juice in the batter, chopped nuts, and fluffy 7-minute icing. A retro party cake with a pretty blush color and sweet cherry flavor throughout.

Oatmeal raisin sheet cake spiked with cinnamon, cloves, and plumped raisins, baked thin on a sheet pan and finished with a quick poured icing. The bake-sale and potluck cake that feeds a crowd of 24.

Chocolate Cake Florence: a tender chocolate layer cake soaked with Tia Maria coffee liqueur and frosted with an old-fashioned cooked fudge icing, then dusted with chopped nuts. A grown-up chocolate cake.

Grandma's chocolate rum bundt cake soaked in raspberry-rum glaze and drizzled with melted chocolate and white vanilla icing. A boozy, showstopping dessert made easy with cake mix.

A decadent chocolate almond rum cake with ground almonds in the batter, rum-chocolate icing, and toasted flaked almonds pressed all around. A celebration cake with serious depth.

A yeasted chocolate cake with an overnight rise, three layers, and a cooked white icing drizzled with melted chocolate and toasted coconut. Truly unlike any chocolate cake you've tried.

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.

The classic Joy of Cooking devil's food cake with a cooked chocolate custard folded into the batter and whipped egg whites for lift. Finished with caramel icing. A vintage recipe worth mastering.

Toasted coconut layer cake with zesty lime-lemon curd filling and fluffy coconut-crusted seven-minute icing. A tropical showstopper that's equal parts tangy and toasted-sweet.

Red and golden raspberries marinated in a honeyed raspberry puree. A simple, elegant fruit dessert or topping for ice cream and angel food cake.

A rich, fudgy Southern chocolate sheet cake made with real Coca Cola, buttermilk, and miniature marshmallows baked right into the batter. Topped with a warm cocoa cola icing that soaks in while the cake is still hot.

A self-saucing brownie pudding cake that creates its own hot chocolate sauce as it bakes. Cocoa batter topped with brown sugar and hot water transforms into cake on top, gooey pudding underneath. Serve warm with ice cream.

Moravian Scotch cakes, a 4-ingredient Pennsylvania Dutch shortbread cookie with caraway seeds, topped with boiled icing and colored sugar. A crisp, buttery heritage recipe.

Traditional Irish apple cake with a buttery shortbread-style crust layered around spiced applesauce. A rustic Sunday dessert served warm with whipped cream, ice cream, or lemon sauce.

Apple cinnamon cake loaded with 6 fresh apples and chopped almonds in an oil-based batter with a full tablespoon of cinnamon. Dense, moist, and best served warm with whipped cream or ice cream.