32 buttercream recipes

Fluffy white buttercream icing made with shortening, powdered sugar, and a hint of almond extract. Stays bright white and pipes like a dream for decorated cakes.

Soft French buttercream cookies made with powdered sugar, cream of tartar, and vanilla. Tint the dough with food coloring and top with colored sugar for holidays or parties.

Thumbprint buttercream cookies made with brown sugar, egg yolks, and shortening, coated in stiff egg whites and nuts, then filled with buttercream icing after baking.

Mimosa cake is a marbled angel food cake with lemon butter cream frosting. White meringue batter and golden egg yolk batter are spooned alternately into a tube pan for a two-toned, cloud-light sponge.

Peanut butter dreams are no-bake chocolate-dipped peanut butter balls with crisp rice cereal for crunch. Vintage church-cookbook candy that yields 48 freezer-friendly bites and disappears at every bake sale.

These are better then the average peanut butter cookie and really do melt in your mouth!

Tasty chocolate buttercream frosting on Devils' food cupcakes decorated like spiders.

Classic chocolate whoopie pies with two soft cocoa cake rounds sandwiching a fluffy marshmallow buttercream filling. The Pennsylvania Dutch lunchbox favorite that freezes beautifully.

Old fashioned scones bake five-ingredient British biscuits in a hot oven for tender, lightly sweet rounds ready in 30 minutes. Serve warm with butter, cream, and jam.

Pillowy soft buttermilk drop cookies baked until pale golden get frosted with sweet buttercream and sprinkled with colored sugar for nostalgic treats.

Six-layer vanilla cake with raspberry preserves and raspberry liqueur buttercream frosting. A towering celebration cake with a piped lattice top and bright berry flavor in every layer.

Squamish bars are Canadian three-layer no-bake squares with a peanut butter cereal base, vanilla buttercream filling, and a thin chocolate top. Freezer-friendly and built for potlucks.

Halloween fig spooks cupcakes built from cake mix studded with chopped figs, topped with a whole dried fig and draped in white buttercream icing for little ghost-shaped treats.

Moist chocolate cupcakes piped with creamy peanut butter filling, then topped with swirls of the same sweet cream cheese frosting for spooky Halloween treats.

It tastes very good and gives a thicker consistency similar to buttercream.

Eggnog layer cake is a tender, nutmeg-scented two-layer cake made with dairy eggnog and topped with cooked-custard eggnog buttercream spiked with rum. A Christmas showpiece cake.