10,000 icing recipes

Surprise-center butter cookies with 4 hidden fillings: Andes mints, cherries, chocolate chips, and pecans. Each batch gets its own color-coded icing. A fun holiday baking project.

Cajun cake with crushed pineapple batter and a boiled pecan-coconut icing. A simple Southern sheet cake where the pineapple keeps it moist and the sticky topping steals the show.

Rolled sugar cookies with a tender, sturdy crumb that holds its shape through every cookie cutter. The chilled dough rolls cleanly to a quarter inch and bakes pale-edged, ready for royal icing or sprinkles.

Get the jump on your Christmas baking by making this classic fruit cake now. Wrap it well and it will be perfect to serve, or give as a gift, on Christmas Day!

Delicate and delicious chocolate souffle as a dessert.

Tollhouse pie bakes chocolate chip cookie dough right into a buttery pie shell. Gooey chocolate morsels, crunchy walnuts, and brown sugar custard in every warm forkful. Top with vanilla ice cream and prepare for requests for seconds.

Cinnamon buns or rolls are always our favorite. Glaze is made with cream cheese, icing sugar and maple syrup, which gives the cinnamon buns creaminess and extra sweetness. Have these delicious buns with a cup of coffee.

6 layer cake made with fresh strawberries and fresh whipped cream. Strawberries are in season, they are cheap and delicious! This can be a healthier alternative to ice cream cake (just freeze cake once it's done).

Chocolate marshmallow drop cookies topped with a soft melted marshmallow, glossy cocoa icing, and a pecan half. Like a homemade Mallomar in cookie form, made for cookie tins and lunchboxes.

Three-layer red velvet cake with buttermilk, cocoa, and vinegar topped with a cooked flour white icing. Old-fashioned Southern style with an ermine frosting that's not too sweet.

Old-fashioned oatmeal cake with cinnamon, nuts, and a broiled coconut-brown sugar icing spread on warm. A nostalgic, from-scratch classic worth passing down.

Mississippi mud cake loaded with cocoa, butter, and pecans under a thick chocolate buttercream icing. Dense, fudgy, and unapologetically Southern.

Cinnamon swirl loaf made easy with frozen bread dough, rolled jelly-roll style around a cinnamon-sugar spiral, baked golden and drizzled with vanilla icing. Beginner-friendly and made for morning toast.

Moist spice cake made with apricot baby food and puréed canned apricots, topped with boiled brown sugar icing.

Margarita on the rocks shakes premium gold tequila with Triple Sec, Grand Marnier, and sweet and sour mix, poured over ice into a salt-rimmed glass. The double hit of orange liqueur gives this classic cocktail extra depth and punch.

Double chocolate cake doughnuts made from scratch with unsweetened chocolate and buttermilk, then fried and topped with cocoa icing. Rich, cakey, and worth the overnight chill.