251 buttercream recipes

Buche de Noel (Christmas log cake): a classic French yule log with sponge cake, coffee buttercream, meringue mushrooms, and a dusting of powdered sugar snow. A showstopping holiday centerpiece.

Three-layer Kona coffee torte with ground walnuts in the batter, orange-mocha buttercream filling, and mocha frosting. A Hawaiian-inspired cake where coffee, chocolate, and citrus meet.

Cream cheese pie dough made with just four ingredients: butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and flour. Rich, flaky, and freezer-friendly for up to 2 months.

Pina colada layer cake with a rum-soaked chiffon base, crushed pineapple filling, coconut buttercream frosting, and toasted coconut. The cocktail, in cake form.

Classic butter cookies with a hint of orange juice and vanilla, rolled and cut into shapes, then topped with a creamy buttercream frosting. A versatile holiday cookie perfect for decorating.

Use light or low-fat cream cheese to reduce the fat and calories even further than this tasty rich buttercream frosting alternative.

Fettuccine alla panna with just three ingredients: butter, cream, and Parmigiano-Reggiano. The original Italian cream pasta, simpler and purer than Alfredo.

Italian layered sponge cake with rum, custard cream filling, coffee zabaglione buttercream, walnuts, and chocolate-dipped almonds. An elegant multi-component dessert.

Fettuccine Alfredo done traditional Italian-style: fresh egg pasta tossed with butter, cream, and Parmigiano-Reggiano. Three ingredients, pure silk on a plate.

Three-layer creme de menthe brownies with a fudgy chocolate base, green mint buttercream middle, and chocolate chip glaze on top. A retro holiday favorite that freezes well.

Soft-baked bars with apples, cranberries, and nuts baked into orange-scented batter, then frosted with tangy orange cream cheese icing. Perfect for holiday cookie trays.

Elegant French layer cake with genoise, fresh strawberries, buttercream, and crème fraîche whipped cream. This show-stopping dacquoise is soaked with Framboise liqueur.

Halvah shortbread made with tahini and butter creamed together with brown sugar and cake flour, studded with toasted pecans and cut into wedges.

Lemonade cookies made with frozen lemonade concentrate in both the dough and the buttercream frosting. Tangy, buttery drop cookies with a citrus punch.

Chocolate sweetheart sandwich cookies with cocoa dough puffed and crackled, filled with vanilla buttercream. Homemade Oreo-style cookies with a rich, creamy center.

Butterscotch dandy cake folds homemade hard-ball butterscotch syrup into a tender two-layer cake, then crowns it with a cooked brown sugar buttercream. A real-deal Southern butterscotch cake from scratch.