Cake icing recipes - 48 recipes
Icing, also called frosting in America, is a sweet glaze made from sugar and liquid, like water or milk and is used to cover or decorate baked goods, such as cakes or cookies.
Icing is often enriched with ingredients like butter, flavouring and cream cheese. For example, cream cheese icing for red velvet cupcake or buttercream icing for birthday cakes.
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Top Recipe
Chocolate and Beetroot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
By selmastable, Selma's Table
Details
servings 12
Level of difficulty Easy
Preparation time 15
Cost Budget Friendly
- INGREDIENTS
- 120g flour
- 60g cacao powder sifted
- 170g golden caster sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 170g cooked beetroot (not pickled!)
- 2 large eggs at room temperature
- 140ml vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste/extract
- Cream Cheese Frosting
- 200g cold cream cheese
- 100g soft butter
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 100g caster sugar
The beetroot keeps the cake moist and gives it a lovely deep red colour
Top rated Cake icing recipes
Iced Biscuits
By coleyfaulksxx
1. Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5
- - 100g/3½oz unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- - 100g/3½oz caster sugar
- - 1 free-range egg, lightly beaten
- - 275g/10oz plain flour
- - 1 tsp vanilla extract
- - To decorate
- - 400g/14oz icing sugar
- - 3-4 tbsp water
- - 2-3 drops food colourings
Red Velvet Cupcales Recipe
By gloopychocolate
Follow this fool proof recipe for the best Red Velvet delights! These are ideal as easy snacks for birthdays, celeb
- 250g plain flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 100g soft unsalted butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 tbsp red food dye
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 175ml buttermilk
- 1 tsp cider vinegar
- 500g icing sugar
- 125g cream cheese
- 125g soft unsalted butter
- 1 tsp cider vinegar (or lemon juice)
Eye-boggling Masterpiece
By HappyChappy11
For a child who loves the 7 dwarves, this is the perfect cake!
- CAKE:
- 175g/230g butter
- 175g/230g caster sugar
- 3/4 eggs
- 175g/230g self-raising flour
- (1tsp baking powder)
- 2 packs chocolate fingers
- 150g butter
- 350g icing sugar
- 1-2tsp orange flavouring
- 2tbsp milk
- Large assortment of icing
- Black edible gravel
- Black edible ink pen
Earl Grey Macarons with Cream Cheese Frosting
By whiskandknife, Whisk & Knife
Subtly floral earl grey with tangy cream cheese frosting! Without a doubt, perfect with a cup of earl grey tea
- For the Earl Grey macaron shells (A):
- 53g egg white
- 25g granulated/ caster sugar
- 100g icing/superfine sugar
- 60g ground almonds
- 1 earl grey tea bag
- For the cream cheese filling (B):
- 100g full fat cream cheese
- 30g butter
- 150g icing sugar
Red Velvet Cake
By NixyJ
Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease and line a cake tin
- 350g butter
- 350g caster sugar
- 6 eggs
- ½ tsp vanilla essence
- Pinch salt
- 300g plain flour
- 50g cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 50ml red food colouring
- 800g ready white icing
- Buttercream:
- 244g soft butter
- 600g icing sugar
- 75g cream cheese
- Couple of drops of vanilla essence
Red Velvet Cupcakes
By carolinadealmeida, Dinosaur Yard
Some the easiest, best tasting cupcakes you'll ever have the pleasure to bake (and eat!)
- 250g plain flour
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon bicarb
- 100g soft unsalted butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 big tablespoon red food colouring
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 175 ml buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon cider vinegar
- Buttermilk:
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
White Chocolate Shell Vanilla Cupcakes
By KneadingIt, kneading It
Here is another yummy recipe - The Chocolate Shells may seem like an effort, but i think the effect they have is wo
- *For the Chocolate Shell:*
- White/Milk/Dark Chocolate
- A Clean Paintbrush/ Small Pastry Brush
- *For The Cupcakes:*
- 120g Caster Sugar
- 120g Unsalted Butter
- 110g Self-Raising Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 2 medium eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 Tablespoon Milk
- *For the Buttercream:*
- 140g Unsalted Butter
- 300g Icing Sugar
- 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Food Colouring of your choice
Tiramisu
By Fay
Make up some strong coffee using 1-2 tbsp coffee granules in 150ml boiling water - leave to cool
- 1 pack of sponge fingers
- 150ml of strong cold coffee
- 250 grams of mascarpone
- 2 tbsp of Tia Maria
- 150ml double cream
- 4 tbsp icing sugar
- Grated chocolate
Glacé icing
By presentface
Mix to consistency required
- 1 cup (100g) icing sugar
- 1 tbsp juice/water/colouring
Autumn Cake (apple and parsnip sponge with cream cheese icing)
By cakeoftheweek, Cake of the Week
today I am presenting you with a cake full of ingredients which I associate with autumn (even if they don't all mak...
- For the sponge:
- 1 Large Cooking Apple
- 1 Medium Parsnip
- 200g Plain Flour
- 200g Caster Sugar
- 2 Tsp Baking Powder
- 200mL Sunflower Oil
- 3 Eggs
- 150mL Cider (I used Kopparberg Naked Apple)
- 1 Tbsp Cinnamon
- 1 Tsp Nutmeg
- For the cream cheese frosting:
- 375g Butter (must be good quality)
- 12 Egg Yolks
- 90g Caster Sugar
- 150g Philadelphia Cheese
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- 2 cups Sugar
- 1 cup Water
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Romantic Chocolate Cake
- 100g soften butter
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 70g SR flour
- 30g cocoa powder
- For decorations:
- 100g dark chocolate
- 50g soften butter
- 100g icing sugar
- 20g cocoa
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Apple, Walnut and Cinnamon Cake
- Cake
- 190g Plain Flour
- 50g Oats
- 1tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
- 1tsp Cinnamon
- 1tsp All Spice
- 1/2tsp Freshly Grated Nutmeg
- 175g Caster Sugar
- Pinch of Salt
- 175ml Sunflower Oil (or other flavourless oil)
- 2 Eggs
- 1tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
- 2 Cooking Apples, peeled and finely chopped
- 50g Walnuts (roughly chopped)
- Frosting
- 125g Butter (room temperature)
- 250g Mascarpone (room temperature)
- 1tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
- 250g Icing Sugar
- Walnuts and dried apple for decoration
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Gingerbread men
- 85g golden syrup
- 85g butter
- 85g caster sugar or light brown sugar
- 225g plain flour
- 1-2tsp gound ginger
- A little milk
- Icing (optional) -
- 175g icing sugar
- sufficient amount of water
- To decorate -
- Dried fruit
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Chocolate cupcakes and chocolate...
- For the cupcakes;
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 6 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- For the frosting;
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 9 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled to lukewarm
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups sifted icing sugar
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Approved byThe Chef Fondant Roses
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Vanilla Buttercream
- 6 tbsp (75g) margarine
- 2 cups (225g) icing sugar
- 3 tsp vanilla essence
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Kittencal's Bakery Buttercream...
- 1/2 cup white Crisco shortening, softened
- 1/2 cup margarine, softened (can use butter)
- 4 -6 tablespoons 18% table cream (can use heavy cream, unwhipped or half and half cream or milk)
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 teaspoons vanilla (or can use 1 teaspoon almond extract)
- 5 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted (or as needed)
- 2 -4 drops food coloring (or as needed, you may omit if desired)
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Approved byThe Chef Fondant Holly's
- Cake to decorate
- Fondant - Red, Green
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CHOCOLATE FUDGE ICING
- 2ozs Soft Butter
- 7ozs Icing Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Cocoa
- 2 Dessertspoons Milk
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Banana Cake
- DRY INGREDIENTS:
- 1.5 Cups Wholemeal Flour
- 1 Cup White Flour
- 1 Cup Sweetener
- 6 tsp Baking Powder
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Ginger
- WET INGREDIENTS:
- 4 fl oz Syrup
- 6 fl oz Orange or Apple Juice
- 1 tsp Vanilla or Orange Essence
- 6 ripe mashed Bananas
- TOPPINGS:
- Demerara Suger
- Granola
- Sesame Seeds
- Sunflower Seeds
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CHOCOLATE AND RASPBERRY TART- by...
- 10oz fresh double cream (or parve whip if you want non-dairy)
- 6oz very dark chocolate
- Rasperries (fresh)
- Icing sugar for decoration
- Pie flan pastry
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