196 vanilla frosting recipes

Try this awesome recipe that makes cinnamon rolls your kids will love!

An easy chocolate mint cake using box cake mix for quick and easy preparation.

Old-school cocoa drop cookies made with buttermilk and whole wheat flour, topped with a glossy homemade chocolate frosting. Quick to mix, quick to bake, and yields a big batch of 4 dozen.

Watch this decadent cake recipe disappear swiftly. With its thick frosting and rich chocolate layers, it's a huge hit at any event.

New Year's Eve clock cake: three airy white cake layers stacked with silky chocolate cream filling, wrapped in rich Hungarian chocolate frosting and decorated to look like a clock striking midnight.

Homemade chocolate sandwich cookies with a stabilized vanilla cream filling. These Oreo-style treats use cake mix for the cookies and gelatin-enriched frosting.

Three-layer coconut cake with a tangy lemon-lime curd filling and clouds of sweetened whipped cream frosting. A bakery-worthy showpiece with bright citrus contrast against tender vanilla layers.

Mandarin orange cake layers a fluffy box cake with crushed mandarins and juice, then frosts it with a no-cook whipped topping, vanilla pudding, and crushed pineapple filling. Easy retro potluck favorite.

A layered Italian cassata cake with orange-ricotta filling, chocolate, candied citron, and vanilla frosting topped with pistachios. A Sicilian bakery classic you can make at home.

English orange trifle layered with liqueur-soaked quick bread, vanilla pudding with orange zest, and marmalade, frosted with sweetened whipped cream. A make-ahead showstopper dessert.

Creepy, fun Halloween eyeball cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream frosting, red food coloring veins, and candy eyeballs. A spooky treat kids love to decorate and devour at Halloween parties.

7 Up Cake with Pineapple and Coconut Frosting recipe

German chocolate cake using yellow cake mix doctored with melted German sweet chocolate, pudding mix, and buttermilk. Three layers stacked with classic cooked coconut-pecan filling between. The bakery-quality version of a backyard birthday classic.

This three-layer coconut cake starts with a yellow cake mix shortcut, then gets loaded with shredded coconut, crunchy walnuts, and a from-scratch cream cheese frosting with toasted golden coconut on top. Ready in about an hour.

Regular vanilla frosting. Extra things may be added to enhance different flavors if desired.

Jeanne's cake stacks a tender vanilla cake on a crisp shortbread base, all wrapped in silky old-fashioned ermine frosting, the cooked-flour kind that's fluffy and far less sweet than buttercream.