13 seven minute frosting recipes

Two-egg layer cake with seven-minute frosting: a classic butter-and-milk yellow cake paired with the legendary cloud-like boiled egg-white frosting. Retro Americana baking at its finest.

Three-layer Southern coconut cake with a tangy crushed-pineapple filling and billowy seven-minute frosting. An almond-scented butter cake stacked with grated coconut between every layer.

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.

Abby's Chocolate Cake: a classic two-layer chocolate cake with sour cream for tang, frosted in cooked fluffy white seven-minute frosting. Vintage American birthday-cake territory.

Diabetic-friendly yellow cake made with sugar substitute, egg whites, and a fluffy seven-minute frosting. A lower-sugar birthday cake with tender crumb and pillowy frosted top.

Three-layer white chocolate cake with chopped pecans, coconut, and a fluffy boiled-sugar coconut icing. Special occasion Southern-style layer cake with cooked seven-minute frosting.

Eisenhower's chocolate layer cake with cocoa dissolved in boiling water, sour milk, and a fluffy seven-minute frosting. A classic mid-century American recipe with presidential history.

Fluffy pink grapefruit frosting is a seven-minute frosting made with egg whites, sugar, and grapefruit juice beaten over a double boiler into billowy, citrus-scented peaks.

Childhood PB&J turned into a two-layer peanut butter cake filled with more peanut butter and red jelly, topped with fluffy seven-minute frosting. Nostalgic birthday cake for grown-ups.

Pineapple spice layer cake with crushed pineapple, raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice topped with a fluffy cooked seven-minute frosting studded with pineapple. A from-scratch showstopper.

Two-layer white cake filled with lemon curd, covered in fluffy seven-minute frosting, and pressed with shredded coconut. A classic Southern-style coconut cake with a tangy lemon surprise inside.

Orange blossom cake, a three-layer white cake filled with orange marmalade and crowned with fluffy seven-minute orange frosting. Classic Southern tea-table dessert.

Chocolate peppermint cake: three-layer brown sugar cocoa cake with melting chocolate mint wafers pressed between layers and fluffy seven-minute peppermint frosting on top.