Frosting Recipe

With a good frosting recipe and little bit of time you can create a homemade frosting that will be better than any off the grocery shelf.

Making frosting for your cookies is just not that difficult.

The time that is required doesn't have to be all at once either. Frosting can be refrigerated for several days or frozen for up to three months.

A lot of cookie recipes can be refrigerated or frozen also.

So you can have a batch of cookies and a batch of frosting in the freezer just waiting for when you're ready to frost cookies.

Even though cookies are a great item all by themselves a complimentary frosting recipe just enhances their appeal.

Peanut butter cookies with a chocolate frosting are to die for!

Even though frosting and icing are used interchangeably, when I say frosting I mean a product that stays soft. Icing is the term I use for a product that will harden.

All of the recipes listed here are within that definition.

Frosting Recipe Types

There are many different types of buttercream but I prefer a simple buttercream frosting. Basically it's butter combined with powdered sugar, flavorings, and liquid and then beaten until light and fluffy.

There are variations of buttercream that don't use any butter at all.

Peanut butter and cream cheese are two substitutions for butter that I can think of right off hand.

Seven-minute frosting is the classic cooked frosting.

Egg whites and sugar, along with flavorings, are combined in the top of a double boiler. The mixture is gently heated while continuously beating with a mixer.

As the mixture cooks, a meringue forms, which is stabilized as it grows because it is being heated.

Cooked frostings hold their shape because the heat has coagulated the egg white proteins.

Powdered sugar, flavorings, and whipped cream make whipped cream frostings - what could be simpler?

It is possible to over beat this type of frosting, so just beat until firm peaks appear when you stop beating and lift the beater straight up from the frosting.

If by chance you have leftover cookies with this type of frosting they must be refrigerated.

This fancy term is simply chocolate melted with heavy cream.

A ganache applied to a cookie will create a shiny glaze but if you'll chill it and then beat it, it becomes a fluffy frosting.

There are many other frosting types but these cover the ones used most often and I've included a recipe for each type.

Frosting Recipes

Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate. Need I say more? Well maybe chocolate frosting and especially this Chocolate Frosting Recipe.

Chocolate Ganache Recipe

If you're looking for a new way to consume more chocolate then give this Chocolate Ganache recipe a try.

Cookie Frosting

The terms Cookie Frosting and cookie icing are often used interchangeably however I like to define a difference in frosting and icing.

Cream Cheese Frosting

This is a Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe in that it uses cream cheese instead of the butter or shortening you would normally find in a frosting recipe.

Peanut Butter Frosting

This Peanut Butter Frosting recipe is nothing more than sweetened peanut butter with additional vanilla flavoring, thinned down with milk to a spreading consistency.

Seven Minute Frosting

Seven Minute Frosting is a cooked frosting which makes a little more complicated than some of the other recipes here.

Vanilla Frosting

This is a basic and very simple Vanilla Frosting.