Cake icings can be made out of buttercream, cream cheese, and whipped cream for a rich, creamy, frosting.
Cake icings add flavor, texture, and an eye catching look to your beautiful baking creations.
Buttercream frosting or cream cheese icing are the perfect base to add a variety of flavors to create your own rich icing for cakes.
Whipped cream based frosting is has more liquid, and isn’t as thick, therefore it’s easily spreadable for your cake.
You can add a ton of flavor to cake icing using simple ingredients like freshly brewed espresso, vanilla beans, lemon zest, lime juice, jam, etc.
Try using one of these sweet cake icing flavors for your next cake!
Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream cheese frosting is a tangy, creamy frosting for cakes.
It’s not as sweet as buttercream, and has the memorable cream cheese and vanilla flavor.
Cream cheese frosting needs to have the right consistency to be piped into shapes using a piping tip.
Cream cheese frosting works well for carrot cake, red velvet cake, and vanilla cake.
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Vanilla buttercream frosting is rich and creamy, with an aromatic flavor of vanilla.
It’s a stiff icing, therefore its works well for intricate piping like creating roses or petals.
Vanilla buttercream is made with heavy cream instead of milk to thin it out, therefore it has more of a buttery, velvety flavor.
You can easily color vanilla buttercream frosting using gel food coloring, or liquid food coloring.
Vanilla buttercream frosting can be used for almost any cake! Vanilla cake, lemon cake, pumpkin cake, etc.
Strawberry Frosting
Strawberry frosting is one of the most fruity frostings you’ll ever eat!!
To make strawberry buttercream you have to first make strawberry puree. It smells as good as it sounds.
The puree is added to a buttercream base, and it produces a vibrant pink frosting.
Strawberry buttercream has a bit of unique look to it, it has tiny pieces of strawberry mixed throughout the icing.
I recommend using the buttercream within 1-2 days, as the flavor fades over time.
Strawberry frosting can be used for making strawberry shortcake, or on top of vanilla cake.
Orange Whipped Cream
Orange whipped cream is made by whipping heavy cream until stiff peaks.
Orange zest and a little powdered sugar make this cake icing refreshing with citrus and have a sweet flavor.
White Chocolate Buttercream
White chocolate buttercream is made by adding melted vanilla chocolate to a buttercream base.
White chocolate is a fairly sweet chocolate, but added to buttercream makes it a delicious and creamy frosting that isn’t too sweet.
White chocolate buttercream is a beautiful crisp white frosting, but you can color if desired using gel food coloring.
Coffee Icing
Coffee icing is an incredible flavored icing because it’s FULL of coffee flavor.
It tastes like you’re eating a latte.
Coffee buttercream icing is made by adding instant coffee (I recommend using freshly brewed espresso) to a buttercream icing base.
Coffee buttercream frosting has a hazel color to the frosting.
Champagne Buttercream Frosting
Champagne buttercream frosting has a lovely hint of bubbly flavor.
Champagne buttercream frosting can be made using a sweet sparkling wine infused into a vanilla buttercream frosting. You could even use a strawberry sparkling wine for a little extra fruity flavor.
Champagne buttercream frosting is perfect for a wedding shower, NYE party, or birthday party celebration.
Chai Spiced Frosting
Chai spiced frosting has the flavor of a chai latte.
Chai spiced frosting is made by infusing chai spice into a vanilla buttercream frosting.
Chai spiced frosting has a birch color to it.
It’s a unique tea flavored frosting that goes well with a vanilla cake, pumpkin cake, or coffee cake.
Cookies and Cream Frosting
Cookies and cream frosting has a hint of vanilla buttercream frosting, and tastes like you’re eating cookies in the form of icing.
Crushed cookies and cookie crumbs are added to the frosting to create this decadent and rich buttercream icing.
Cookies and cream buttercream frosting can be used for chocolate cake or vanilla cake.
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
Chocolate buttercream frosting is a chocolatey, creamy frosting.
Chocolate buttercream frosting is made by adding a little vanilla extract, and cocoa powder to a buttercream base frosting.
Chocolate buttercream is a heavy frosting.
Chocolate buttercream can be used for frosting chocolate cake.
Hazelnut Icing
Hazelnut icing is a nutty and chocolatey frosting.
Hazelnut buttercream icing is made by adding cocoa powder, and hazelnut sauce to a buttercream frosting.
Hazelnut frosting is a unique frosting in that it has a nut flavored undertone with chocolate flavor.
Hazelnut frosting goes well with chocolate, vanilla, or mocha cakes.
Peanut butter Frosting
Peanut butter frosting is a fluffy and light buttercream.
Peanut butter icing is made by simply adding peanut butter to a buttercream base.
It’s a bit unique, in that the frosting is thinned out by adding freshly whipped whipping cream.
The whipping cream adds a creamy texture to the buttercream frosting.
Peanut butter frosting goes well on top of chocolate cakes.
Elderflower Buttercream
Elderflower buttercream is a floral and refreshing buttercream frosting.
Elderflower buttercream is made by adding elderflower cordial to a buttercream base.
Elderflower buttercream goes well with lemon cake or vanilla cake.
Mint Chocolate Icing
Mint chocolate buttercream is a minty fresh, chocolatey icing.
Mint buttercream icing is made by adding mint extract, and dark chocolate chips to Italian buttercream icing.
You can also color the icing using liquid or gel food coloring if desired.
Mint buttercream icing goes well on top of a chocolate cake.
Marshmallow Vanilla Frosting
Marshmallow vanilla frosting has a hint of marshmallow and vanilla flavors.
Marshmallow vanilla frosting is made using marshmallow fluff and vanilla extract, which is infused into a buttercream base icing.
Marshmallow vanilla frosting can be piped onto chocolate cake or vanilla cake.
Lemon Frosting
Lemon buttercream is a citrusy frosting with a burst of lemon flavor.
Lemon buttercream is made by adding lemon extract and freshly grated lemon zest to infuse into buttercream icing.
Lemon buttercream is goes well on top of lemon cake or vanilla cake.
Amaretto Icing
Amaretto buttercream is a sweet, cherry flavored frosting.
Amaretto buttercream is made by infusing amaretto and vanilla extract into buttercream frosting.
Slowly add the powdered sugar into the frosting, and taste test for yourself. Only add as much sugar as you need to. It might be too sweet otherwise.
Amaretto icing can be piped onto vanilla cake for a sweet cherry cake flavor.
Raspberry Buttercream Frosting
Raspberry buttercream is a fruity, sweet flavored frosting for cakes.
Raspberry buttercream is made by creaming together butter and shortening with powdered sugar.
The flavor of the buttercream comes from the concentrated flavor of raspberry jam, and vanilla extract.
Hot water is used to thin out the icing as needed, depending on how thick you want the icing for your cake.
Banana Buttercream Icing
Banana buttercream frosting has a creamy banana flavor to it.
Banana buttercream icing is made with banana extract to buttercream frosting. You can add a little yellow liquid food coloring as well for a pop of color.
Banana buttercream icing can be piped onto banana cake or vanilla cake.
Coconut Frosting
Coconut frosting has a woody-fruity flavor to it.
Coconut buttercream icing is made by adding cream of coconut and coconut emulsion to buttercream icing.
Coconut frosting goes well on top of vanilla cake.
Cream Cheese Lime Frosting
Cream cheese lime frosting has a refreshing citrus lime flavor, combined with tangy cream cheese.
Cream cheese lime frosting is made by adding fresh lime juice to a vanilla cream cheese base frosting.
You can add a couple of drops of green food coloring if desired.
Cream cheese lime frosting can be paired with vanilla cake.
Cinnamon Buttercream
Cinnamon buttercream frosting is a fluffy, buttery frosting, infused with delicious cinnamon and vanilla flavors.
Cinnamon buttercream is made by creaming together shortening, butter, and powdered sugar.
Heavy cream is used to thin out the icing.
Vanilla extract and cinnamon are added to the frosting at the end, so you can taste test and make sure the flavor is just right before icing your cake.
Mocha Icing
Mocha icing has a coffee-chocolate flavor to it. It’s rich and decadent.
Mocha buttercream icing is made by adding freshly brewed coffee or espresso, and cocoa powder to a vanilla buttercream icing.
Mocha icing can be piped on top of chocolate or vanilla cake.
Dulche De Leche Frosting
Dulche de leche frosting has a hint of caramel flavor.
Dulche de leche frosting is made by combining dulche de leche with butter.
Whipped cream is folded into the butter mixture, making a creamy frosting for cakes.
Irish Cream Frosting
Irish Cream frosting has a creamy vanilla flavor to it with a hint of whiskey.
Irish cream buttercream is made by adding Irish cream to a buttercream frosting.
Irish cream frosting goes well on top of vanilla cake.
