10,000 icing recipes

Old-fashioned cranberry shrub made from simmered cranberry juice, sugar, and lemon. Serve this tart, syrupy concentrate over ice with club soda or topped with sherbet.

No-bake peanut butter snowballs with chopped dates and walnuts, dipped in icing and rolled in coconut. Christmas cookie tin classic. No oven, kids love them.

Rocky road frosting with chocolate, miniature marshmallows, and salted peanuts folded into a buttercream base. The classic ice cream flavor turned into a chunky cake topping.

Chinese toffee-coated apples and bananas with crispy batter and caramel sesame coating. Deep-fried fruit dunked in ice water creates a shatteringly crisp candy shell.

Falling chocolate cake with raspberry sauce: individual molten-centered chocolate cakes with a cracked top and gooey interior, served with bright raspberry sauce and ice cream.

Dense chocolate tube cake loaded with melted chocolate bars plus chocolate syrup for double the flavor. Crunchy pecans throughout, no icing needed for this fudgy beauty.

Giant Texas-sized cookies loaded with oats, cereal, chocolate chips, coconut, and pecans. Scooped with an ice cream scoop for massive, chewy, everything-in-it cookies.

Texas sheet cake enriched with sour cream for moisture and folded with chopped nuts, baked thin in a sheet pan and topped with warm chocolate icing poured straight onto the hot cake.

Rainbow Holiday Cup cocktail with rum, cinnamon schnapps, orange juice, bitters, and grenadine over ice. A festive mixed drink served cold or heated as a warm holiday toddy.

French toast fingers stuffed with strawberry jam, dipped in orange-egg batter, and griddled golden. A kid-friendly 10-minute breakfast that turns jam sandwiches into dunkable brunch bites with maple syrup.

Devonshire splits, soft sweet yeast buns from England's West Country, split and filled generously with clotted cream and jam, then dusted with icing sugar. A traditional cream-tea treat.

Buttery brown sugar bar cookies with chopped walnuts and a hint of rum extract, baked in one pan and cut into squares. Serve warm with ice cream or stash them in a tin for later.

Showstopper pecan pie with homemade toffee crunch, caramel sauce drizzle, and pastry-leaf crust decoration. A Thanksgiving centerpiece that earns every compliment.

Down home grilled hamburgers fold sour cream, green onions, breadcrumbs, and lemon pepper into ground beef for juicy patties. Topped with ice-water-crisped onions, ripe tomatoes, and a three-condiment spread.

Grandma's jam cake, a Southern Appalachian heirloom spice cake folded with fruit jam, raisins, nuts, and warm cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Old-time celebration cake for caramel icing.

Flourless chestnut and pecan torte with a bourbon-coffee-chocolate filling, bittersweet chocolate ganache icing, and bourbon chantilly cream. Rich, nutty, and deeply warming. The kind of torte that ends a dinner party with a standing ovation.