Frosting Recipe

When we think of making cakes, the part that excites us the most are the ever-so-tempting cake decoration, be it frosting or icing or the marshmallow toppings, surely! Frosting is the icing spread uniformly on the cake to impart it a flavor, seal all the crumbs within and smoothen the surface. So without making you wait longer, let's see some homemade recipes listed below!

Easy Recipes

Cupcakes: Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients: one packet cream cheese, 4 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon lemon zest, one cup sugar.

Procedure:

• Beat butter and cream cheese in a large bowl using a blender.
• Add sugar and lemon zest and beat again.
• Your frosting is ready and you can use it on cupcakes and cookies as well!

Without Powdered Sugar: Rapper's Frosting
Ingredients: Chocolate bar, 3 tablespoons butter, half cup milk.

Procedure:

• Boil chocolate bar, milk and butter in a saucepan. Make sure all the ingredients mix properly and the mixture is uniform.
• Turn off the burner and let the mixture cool down.
• Refrigerate the mixture in a bowl.
• Later, add some more milk and whip vigorously so that the frost is created.
• Your mouth-watering recipe is ready!

Recipe for Cakes: Butterscotch Nut Frosting
Ingredients: one cup light brown sugar, one-third cup granulated sugar, hot water, one eighth teaspoon cream of tartar, half teaspoon of vanilla extract, one cup chopped nuts, one egg white.

Procedure:

• In a saucepan, add sugar and water and heat until the sugar melts completely.
• Then add egg white, tartar cream and beat using a blender until the icing consistency is attained.
• Later add vanilla extract and a pinch of salt.
• Your recipe is ready! Now serve it onto the cakes.

Chocolate Recipe: Chocolate Fluff Frosting
Ingredients: chocolate fudge pudding mix (one packet), 2 cups of milk, one tablespoon butter, one teaspoon vanilla, whipped cream topping mix, half cup cold milk.

Procedure:

• Take the pudding mix in a pan. Add milk and cook as per the instructions given on the pack.
• Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla and refrigerate.
• Now make a mixture of whipped cream topping mix and vanilla with addition of half cup milk and add it to the chilled pudding prepared.
• Blend the 2 mixtures properly and use for frosting or icing recipes.

Unique Recipes

7-minute Coconut Frosting
Ingredients: one cup sugar, one tablespoon cream of tartar or white corn syrup, 3 egg whites, one tablespoon vanilla extract, pinch of salt, one tablespoon coconut extract, half cup coconut water, grated coconut.

Procedure:

• Add sugar, cream of tartar, salt, coconut water and egg whites in a bowl and boil water on a high flame simultaneously in a saucepan. Place the bowl over the saucepan and blend the mixture properly for 6 minutes with the help of a blender.
• After removing from flame, mix vanilla and coconut extract in it and again beat constantly for 1 minute with the help of a blender.
• Allow the frosting to cool down and use it for frosting your cake.
• Sprinkle grated coconut after each layering of the frost.

Caramel Frosting
Ingredients: one cup dark brown sugar, 6 tablespoons butter, half cup milk, one pinch salt, one-fourth cup sugar, half tablespoon vanilla extract.

Procedure:

• Take brown sugar, butter, milk and salt in a saucepan and boil it.
• Take it off the flame and let it cool down.
• Add sugar and vanilla extract and beat smoothly until the consistency is thick enough.
• Now add it onto your cupcakes or frost it on your cake!

So these were some recipes which you can experiment.

P.S.: Frosting should be done with delicate hands always, otherwise it can spoil the entire cake. After the cake has been baked, cut it into horizontal layers and frost each one of them using the recipes which you have prepared from the above list. Good luck!