10,000 icing recipes

Rich cocoa chocolate cake with buttermilk and boiling water, frosted with a fluffy marshmallow icing. Triple-sifted dry ingredients and a double boiler frosting make this a showstopper.

Low-fat frosted brownies made with applesauce instead of butter and egg whites instead of whole eggs. Topped with a simple cocoa icing, no oil or butter needed.

Cream cheese snowflake cookies with lemon zest, topped with powdered sugar icing and edible glitter. Delicate, buttery Christmas cutout cookies that sparkle.

For a 9 inch pie Make sure you have cold ingredients, don't overwork the dough-it will make it tough, add ice water GRADUALLY-too much makes the crust tough, not enough makes it crack. The dough should just form clumps.

Homemade chocolate Easter eggs with creamy buttercream centers dipped in semi-sweet chocolate. Customize with cocoa, maple walnut, or citrus flavors and decorate with colorful icing.

Grandma Cottington's pumpkin pie is a heritage Thanksgiving classic: flaky butter-and-lard double crust, custardy pumpkin filling with cream, molasses, cinnamon, and allspice. Yields 2 pies.

Flaky, buttery pie shell built for pecan pie filling, with a sturdy bottom that holds up to sticky filling. Made with butter, shortening, and an egg-white wash for golden crispness.

Zimtsterne, traditional German cinnamon stars made from ground almonds and hazelnuts bound with meringue and barely any flour, spiced with cinnamon and topped with a white icing. A chewy holiday classic.

Carrot pineapple cake sweetened with pineapple juice concentrate instead of sugar, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, topped with cream cheese pineapple icing and pecans.

Lincoln log cookies shaped from cocoa-chocolate chip dough into two-inch logs, then drizzled with white and chocolate icing stripes. A fun, chocolatey bake for kids and adults.

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.

Mississippi mud cake with a fudgy cocoa and pecan cake base, melted marshmallow layer, and rich chocolate pecan icing. A three-layer Southern chocolate dessert that's pure indulgence.

Classic New York black and white cookies: soft cake-like rounds half-frosted with vanilla fondant and half with chocolate. Bakery-style recipe with traditional warm fondant icing.

Traditional Italian taralli cookies shaped into rings, dipped in vanilla icing, and topped with sprinkles. A sweet, old-school Italian American cookie from Nonna's kitchen. Makes 24.

Lemon poppyseed spritz cookies are pressed into star and swirl shapes, baked tender, then iced with a pale lemon glaze and finished with a poppyseed sprinkle.

Honey cardamom coffee cake with sour cream, an almond-brown sugar streusel topping, and a cinnamon icing drizzle. Tender, fragrant, and sweetened entirely with honey instead of white sugar.