80+ Best Homemade Frosting Flavor Recipes

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80+ Best Homemade Frosting Flavor Recipes Roundup has over 80 heavenly frosting flavors to compliment your cakes, cupcakes and cookies!  Whether it’s delectable buttercream, cream cheese, fluffy whipped cream or chocolate ganache based, all of these are excellent for frosting all of your baked desserts!

Frosting is super popular when it comes to birthdays, anniversaries or weddings.  It’s the ultimate key to making cakes and cupcakes look and taste gorgeous and perfect when you want to celebrate!

You can pipe it or spread it on top by taking it to the next level, depending how you want your finished dessert to look. But with so many different types of frostings you can make, it’s not easy to decide which one to pick!  Plus, there are many flavors that we crave, like chocolate, lemon, strawberry, marshmallow, coffee, caramel…the list goes on!  Don’t you want to try them all?

You’ll find specialty homemade frostings including Vegan, Keto, Dairy-free, Sugar-free, Egg-free and more when you’re looking for certain recipes when it comes to your life-style.

So to get you started, check out all these delicious frostings and make sure to share them on social media or bookmark them for later for your go-to frostings!

Fluffy Chocolate Buttercream Frosting @ Fantabulosity

This fluffy chocolate buttercream frosting is the best chocolate frosting for cakes, cupcakes, or your favorite icing topped desserts!  This recipe uses shortening, butter, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk and it makes enough for 24 cupcakes or a 2-layer cake!

Whipped Cream Cream Cheese Frosting @ Dessert for Two

The best frosting that is perfectly fluffy, not-to-sweet and totally pipe-able to hold shapes and designs is this whipped cream cream cheese frosting.

Vegan Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting @ Rainbow Nourishments

This vegan strawberry cream cheese frosting is so dreamy, luscious and versatile! You can customize the recipe to make a soft frosting or a firmer frosting for decorating cupcakes and layer cakes.

White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting @ Sunny Little Kitchen

Creamy, silky, and not overly sweet White Chocolate Buttercream to frost cupcakes, cakes, and cookies. This frosting holds its shape very well, and it’s perfect for piping or spreading on desserts.

Perfect Hershey’s Chocolate Frosting @ The Baking ChocolaTess

Perfect Hershey’s Chocolate Frosting is a creamy, silky chocolate icing that is quick and easy to make!  These divine and dreamy chocolate cupcakes make every occasion way more fun!

Lemon Buttercream Frosting @ Lane and Grey Fare

This Lemon Buttercream Frosting is creamy and sweet yet tart and tangy! It’s the most perfect flavor; you’ll want to eat this frosting by the spoonful! Best of all, it’s gluten free, nut free and can easily be vegan!

Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosting @ I Heart Eating

Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosting recipe is a sweet and salty frosting full of sweet, buttery goodness! Perfect frosting for apple or pumpkin cake.

American Meringue Buttercream – Vegan @ Cooking on Caffeine

This American Meringue Buttercream Frosting is quick, it’s easy, it’s no-cook, and just so happens to be vegan. Dairy-free, egg-free, and nut-free, it’s allergy friendly and you’ll love working with it.

Creamy Cannabis Buttercream Frosting @ Emily Kyle 

With only four simple ingredients and 20 short minutes, this sweet and creamy cannabis buttercream frosting will enhance any cake, muffin, or pastry experience.

Bailey’s Buttercream Icing @ A Mummy Too

You will not find a buttercream more delicious, decadent and divine that this one-bowl Baileys icing, with a hint of chocolate and distinctive Baileys flavour.

Raspberry Buttercream Frosting @ Baking Ginger

A tasty and easy Raspberry Buttercream Frosting recipe that is perfect for frosting any cake or cupcake. This creamy and fluffy raspberry buttercream has a beautiful natural color and flavor from the delicious fresh raspberries.

Brown Butter Swiss Meringue Buttercream @ Baking With Butter

This brown butter Swiss meringue buttercream is so delicious. It’s light and fluffy with toasty flavor and notes of caramel from the brown butter.

Cookie Dough Frosting @ Partylicious

This delicious buttercream frosting tastes just like chocolate chip cookie dough! It’s a delicious filling for cakes, cookies and topping cupcakes and brownies.

Easy 5-Minute Fluffy Vanilla Frosting @ Foodess

The best vanilla frosting!  So fluffy and satiny and not too sweet!  Our new go-to vanilla buttercream frosting for cake and cupcakes!

Homemade Marshmallow Fluff @ The Cinnamon Jar

Homemade marshmallow fluff only needs four ingredients and has a gazillion uses for all sorts of confectionary. Fluffy as a cloud & lighter than buttercream and far easier to make.

Chocolate Fudge Frosting @ Amanda’s Cookin’

Homemade fluffy chocolate fudge frosting is super simple to make using butter, cocoa powder, powdered sugar, heavy cream, and vanilla extract.

The Best Vanilla Buttercream Frosting @ Belle of the Kitchen

This is The Best Vanilla Buttercream Frosting! It’s rich and creamy, and is super easy to whip up. It pipes beautifully, and is the perfect way to finish off all of your cakes and cupcakes!

Vegan Peanut Butter Frosting @ Baking Ginger

This simple Vegan Peanut Butter Frosting (without vegan butter) is perfectly delish with just four ingredients, no one will ever know this frosting is dairy-free!

Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting @ I Heart Eating

This chocolate cream cheese frosting recipe is a simple cream cheese chocolate icing that takes just minutes to make. It’s a delicious twist on regular cream cheese frosting. This homemade frosting is rich and cream and chocolaty and goes well with cakes, cupcakes, and brownies.

Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe @ Ask Chef Dennis

This Cream Cheese Frosting made with 4 ingredients is sweet, tangy, thick and creamy. The perfect frosting for your favorite cakes and cupcakes!

Vegan Biscoff Buttercream Frosting @ Baked by Clo

This vegan Biscoff buttercream is quick, easy and requires just 3 ingredients. It’s perfect for topping all kinds of cakes and cupcakes, will hold firm at room temperature and can be frozen if you’re making it in advance.

Pink Lemonade Buttercream Frosting @ Cooking With Carleee

Pink lemonade buttercream is pretty with its light pink hue and tangy lemon flavor. This frosting is quick to make, fun to use and super versatile.

Peppermint Buttercream Frosting @ Delightful Adventures

An easy recipe for peppermint buttercream frosting that’s really the best because it’s so creamy, smooth, DELICIOUS, and perfect for holiday cakes, cupcakes, and cookies!

Chocolate Orange Buttercream @ Maplewood Road

A delectable chocolate orange buttercream, made with cocoa, real melted chocolate, and even more refreshing orange zest.

The Best Maraschino Cherry Buttercream Frosting @ Two Sisters Crafting

Our delicious buttercream frosting is flavored with yummy cherries. If you are a cherry lover, The Best Maraschino Cherry Buttercream Frosting is the frosting for you!

Fluffy Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting @ Amy Cakes Bakes

This easy recipe makes super creamy, fluffy, and smooth cinnamon buttercream frosting. It pairs perfectly with cakes and cupcakes in various flavors, like pumpkin, carrot, and spice cake.

Cake Batter Frosting @ Partylicious

This cake batter frosting recipe is a buttercream frosting flavored with boxed cake mix and sprinkles making it a perfect funfetti frosting for birthday cakes and cupcakes!

The Best Mint Buttercream Frosting @ 2 Sisters Crafting

You are going to want to try The Best Mint Buttercream Frosting today! We’ve taken our amazing Buttercream Frosting recipe and infused it with just the right amount of Mint flavoring. Delicious!

Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting @ Caramel and Cashews

Peanut butter cream cheese frosting that’s sweet, creamy, and tangy. This peanut butter flavored icing is perfect for cakes, cupcakes, and more!

Espresso Buttercream Frosting @ The Littlest Crumb

This espresso buttercream frosting is made with real espresso for the richest, most authentic espresso flavor.

Mint Chocolate Chip Buttercream Frosting Recipe @ Cookies & Cups

Mint Chocolate Chip Frosting is cool, creamy and loaded with chopped chocolate. If you love mint chocolate chip ice cream, this easy frosting recipe is your dream come true! Perfect for topping a chocolate cake or cupcake!

Whipped Buttercream Frosting @ I Heart Eating

Whipped Buttercream Frosting is the best frosting ever! This flour frosting (ermine frosting) is made without powdered sugar. It has the rich creaminess of a buttercream & the light, airy texture of a whipped cream frosting without being too sweet!

Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting @ Dessert for Two

Lovers of classic cream cheese frosting absolutely need to try this brown sugar version! The caramel notes from the molasses in brown sugar take this brown sugar cream cheese frosting to the next level. Use it on cupcakes, cakes, brownies or spread between two cookies for a creamy cookie sandwich!

Vegan Ganache @ Addicted to Dates

This 2-ingredient vegan ganache recipe is creamy, rich, and decadent. You can use it melted to create a drip effect on cakes and cheesecake, chill and spread it on cakes or roll it into truffles, or make vegan whipped ganache for frosting chocolate cupcakes.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting @ Chocolate Moosey

It’s a sweet and tangy strawberry cream cheese frosting with a sweet berry finish. It pairs well with a lot of flavors – chocolate, lemon, vanilla, even coconut.

Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting @ Kelly Neil

If you are looking for the perfect tangy topper for just about any dessert look no further! This whipped cream cheese frosting is a beloved classic for good reason. Use it on cinnamon rolls, carrot cake, and so much more.

Vegan Lemon Buttercream Frosting @ Baked by Clo

This vegan lemon buttercream frosting is light, airy and perfectly zingy. Use it on cakes and cupcakes as a delicious topping or filling.

The Best Cookie Dough Frosting

The Best Cookie Dough Frosting is a dreamy, creamy chocolate chip frosting highlighting butter, brown sugar, vanilla extract, and mini chocolate chips giving this frosting the classic “cookie dough” taste we all love and adore!  Vegan option!

Orange Buttercream Frosting @ Recipe Girl

This Orange Buttercream Frosting is easy to make, and it’s really, really delicious!

Chai Latte Cupcakes @ Sally’s Baking Addiction

These easy, homemade chai latte cupcakes combine deliciously warm chai spices like cinnamon, cardamom, and ginger with soft and fluffy cupcakes. Topped with my chai spice buttercream, it’s the ultimate coffeehouse-inspired treat.

Dark Chocolate Buttercream Frosting @ Inside Bru Crew

This rich and smooth Dark Chocolate Buttercream Frosting will satisfy any chocolate lover. It’s the perfect topping for cakes, cupcakes, or cookies. You will never buy store bought chocolate frosting again after trying this homemade frosting recipe.

Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting @ Dessert Now Dinner Later

This Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting recipe swaps the vanilla with coconut extract for a smooth flavor. It’s thick, pipeable, and uses far less powdered sugar than most other recipes. Easy to add shredded coconut flakes too, if desired.

Simple Maple Fudge Frosting  @ Life As A Strawberry

This simple maple frosting develops a thick, fudge-like consistency as it cools. It’s perfect for fall baking – we love it on spice cake, pumpkin cake or cupcakes, and even donuts or cinnamon rolls.

The Best Raspberry Buttercream @ Damn Spicy

Silky smooth, creamy, and pink ⏤ this Raspberry Buttercream is what dreams are made of! Featuring fresh raspberries and no food coloring at all, it’s literally the best raspberry frosting you’ll ever make. Perfect for piping, frosting cakes or cookies. Easy to use and freezer friendly!

Pistachio Buttercream Frosting @ Waiting for Blancmange

An easy pistachio buttercream frosting recipe. Five ingredients and full of flavour. This buttercream is perfect for giving a pistachio twist to your bake.

Whipped Ganache Frosting @ A Baking Journey

This decadent Whipped Ganache is the easiest and tastiest Chocolate Frosting you will ever make. All you need to make this Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting is 2 ingredients, with no sugar and no butter!

Chocolate Ganache Frosting @ Little Sweet Baker 

This amazing chocolate ganache frosting is decadent, versatile, and made with only 2 ingredients! This easy recipe can be used as-is or whipped for a fluffy finish.

Biscoff Cookie Butter Cream Cheese Frosting @ A Baking Journey

This luscious Biscoff Cookie Butter Cream Cheese Frosting is super easy to make with 4 ingredients only. It is the perfect topping for your cupcakes, cookies and baked goods or to decorate, fill and frost cakes!

Matcha Green Tea Buttercream @ Sweet Mouth Joy

This matcha green tea buttercream is light and creamy and full of delicious matcha flavor! The matcha powder is balanced with a hint of vanilla and it reminds me of my favourite matcha latte in buttercream form.

Vegan Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting @ Addicted to Dates

Silky smooth vegan Swiss meringue buttercream with a kick of espresso. This vegan coffee buttercream is completely eggless and dairy free and made with brown sugar! Perfect for frosting vegan cakes and cupcakes.

Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting @ Spatula Desserts

Made with a combination of dark chocolate, heavy cream, and gelatin, whipped chocolate ganache frosting is a light and creamy way to decorate.

Homemade Cake Pop Frosting and Coating @ In the Kitch

This recipe for homemade cake pop frosting and coating is simple and straightforward. It uses ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. It teaches you how to create frosting and coating options, without candy melts, that are deliciously smooth.d

Ube Buttercream Frosting @ Sweet Mouth Joy

This easy ube buttercream frosting is a creamy purple yam buttercream made with ube extract and a hint of coconut. It’s only 4 ingredients and ready in less than 15 minutes!

Browned Butter Frosting @ Tikkido

Browned butter frosting may be the best icing I’ve ever tasted!  Turn basic American buttercream into a frosting with incredible depth of flavor with this browned butter frosting recipe.

Mascarpone Frosting @ Spatula Desserts

This silky mascarpone frosting is the perfect frosting on your cupcakes or cakes. Pipes beautifully and unlike some other frostings, does not include tons of sugar so it is very well balanced in sweetness. Make this delicious, velvety-smooth frosting in less than 5 minutes using 3 simple ingredients.

Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting @ Sunny Little Kitchen

An amazing cake or a cupcake is nothing without a delicious frosting to top it! This Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting is sweet, silky, tangy, lightly spicy, and amazing on all sorts of cakes, cupcakes, and desserts.

Strawberry Whipped Cream Frosting (with jam) @ Food Meanderings

If you love strawberry frosting and are looking for an easy way to make delicious Strawberry Whipped Cream Frosting (with jam), this is the recipe you need! Most recipes call for a strawberry puree or use freeze-dried strawberries, but I use strawberry jam because it’s sooo much simpler.

Easy Sugar Cookie Frosting Recipe @ Sustain My Cooking Habit

Make your own sugar cookie frosting from scratch with this simple and sweet go-to recipe.

Ermine Frosting @ Baking Capture

Looking for a cake frosting that is not too sweet, not too buttery, but it’s still light, fluffy, pipeable, and of course delicious, so the Ermine Frosting (aka flour buttercream) is for you.

If you’re not a big lover of American buttercream, this Ermine Frosting is a great alternative, the perfect balance between sweetness and flavor. And it’s easier to make than Swiss meringue buttercream.

Lemon Buttercream Frosting @ Partylicious

Using one bowl and just four ingredients, you can whip up a batch of this deliciously easy lemon buttercream frosting in just 10 minutes!

Oreo Cream Cheese Frosting @ Craving Some Creativity

This Oreo Cream Cheese Frosting is the creamiest you will find! Using my frosting base and mixing in delightfully crushed Oreos makes for an unbelievable decadent frosting.

Easy Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting @ Delightful Adventures

Quick and easy vegan cream cheese frosting that’s perfect for topping or filling carrot cake, cupcakes, cookies, cinnamon rolls, whoopie pies, gingerbread, and more. Yes, it’s possible to make a great cream cheese icing that’s dairy-free, tofu-free, and nut-free (no cashews, and it’s naturally gluten-free, too!).

Chocolate Orange Ganache @ Pastry & Beyond

You can make chocolate orange ganache easily with 3 ingredients and use it as a filling in your cakes or glaze, or frost your desserts.

Vegan Strawberry Frosting @ Vegan Huggs

Fluffy 7 Minute Frosting @ The Baking ChocolaTess

A a light and billowy delicious marshmallow frosting that goes with everything!  Give me spoonfuls please!

More Delectable Frosting Flavors!

Best Orange Cream Cheese Frosting @ Christina’s Cucina

This is the best orange cream cheese frosting recipe you’re going to find. Why? It’s simple, easy to make and includes Grand Marnier–that’s why!

Caramel Apple Frosting @ Emily Fabulous

Caramel Apple Frosting is the perfect topping for any fall dessert. Made with melted caramel and apple flavoring that will remind you of a caramel apple!

Chocolate Beer Frosting @ Emily Kyle 

Make this fabulous homemade chocolate beer frosting the next time you are looking for a unique frosting recipe for your cake, brownies, or bars.

Chocolate Frosting with Cocoa Powder @ Nutmeg and Vinegar

Chocolate frosting is a delicious filling for cakes and cupcakes. You make this recipe with butter, powdered sugar, and cocoa powder.

Chocolate Frosting (without butter) @ Food Meanderings

This Chocolate Frosting (without butter)uses shortening (Crisco) instead of butter, so it tastes like grocery store icing. It is easy to make, light and tasty. It does not need to be refrigerated and is shelf-safe for days.

Dole Whip Pineapple Buttercream Icing @ Buttercream Parties

Fans of Disney World Dole Whip will love this pineapple buttercream icing. Using pineapple juice and just a hint of vanilla extract, this frosting resembles the famous treat. Who wouldn’t love that?

Dulce de Leche Buttercream Frosting @ Waiting for Blancmange

A quick two ingredient dulce de leche frosting. This caramel-like icing is an easy twist on a classic Russian buttercream.

Easy Buttercream Frosting Recipe @ Nutmeg and Vinegar

This easy buttercream frosting recipe is made with butter and powdered sugar. This frosting is perfect for decorating cakes and cupcakes.

Easy Decadent Whipped Chocolate Frosting @ The Olive Blogger

A super easy whipped chocolate ganache frosting that is versatile to be used on cake, cupcakes, eclairs and more!

Greek Yogurt Icing @ Dizzy Busy & Hungry

Only 2 ingredients! Make this super simple and really yummy Greek yogurt icing in minutes. It’s perfect for muffins, pound cake, pumpkin bread, banana bread, and more!

Homemade Marshmallow Fluff Frosting @ The Tasty Travelers

Use this Homemade Marshmallow Fluff as a frosting for a cake or cupcakes, by whipping less after adding the sugar mixture.  For a thicker marshmallow fluff, whip until very stiff peaks occur.

Lemon Buttercream Frosting @ World Of Vegan

What could be more joyful than these lovely lemon vegan Easter cupcakes with Chick Peeps inspired lemon buttercream frosting?

Pumpkin Pie Buttercream Icing @ Tikkido

Looking for something other than pumpkin pie to make for Thanksgiving dinner (but still can’t bear the thought of missing the flavor of pumpkin pie)?  This pumpkin pie buttercream icing is for you!

Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting @ Buttercream Parties

Smooth & creamy, this pumpkin spice buttercream frosting will be the perfect topping for your cookies, cakes, cupcakes, brownies, and more this fall season.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting @ Dessert For Two

Strawberry cream cheese frosting is made with real strawberries that are cooked down to a jam. The resulting flavor is a tangy, fruity and pink frosting that is perfect for cupcakes, between cake layers, or a little girl’s birthday party.

Sweetened Condensed Milk Frosting (Russian Buttercream) @ Partylicious

Also known as Russian buttercream, this easy sweetened condensed milk frosting uses only two ingredients and can be made in 15 minutes!

Tahini Frosting @ The Perfect Tide

A one of a kind frosting for cake and cupcakes with a hint of Tahini.  This Tahini Frosting makes a great pairing with chocolate, vanilla or fruity cakes.

Vanilla Russian Buttercream @ Cooking With Carlee

Vanilla Russian Buttercream only takes 3 ingredients to make and none of them is powdered sugar! This is a super smooth frosting with the rich flavor of sweetened condensed milk. It is creamy, not too sweet and really easy to make.

Whipped Oreo Frosting @ Worn Slap Out

Top your favorite cake or cupcakes with this creamy, whipped Oreo frosting!  It  may be just the thing you need to…celebrate anything!

White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting @ Chocolate and Chai

This White Chocolate Buttercream frosting recipe results in the smooth flavour of white chocolate elevates this to something beyond a traditional vanilla frosting.

Dairy-Free Buttercream Frosting @ Fit As A Mama Bear

Take your desserts to the next level with this fluffy, dairy-free buttercream frosting! This protein frosting is not only easy to make but great for piping too!

EASY Powdered Sugar Vanilla Frosting (without butter) @ Aleka’s Get Together

This easy powdered sugar frosting is made with and quick making it ideal for topping cupcakes, cakes, soft sugar cookies or brownies. It can be made dairy free also!

Keto Cream Cheese Frosting @ Low Carb Spark

This keto cream cheese frosting is easy to make, sweet, and tangy. It’s a classic recipe that holds its shape well. It’s the perfect sugar-free keto cream cheese icing for decorating keto cakes, cookies, or cupcakes.

Vegan Buttercream Frosting Recipe @ Our Plant Based World

Are you looking for a delicious and vegan-friendly frosting recipe? If so, you’ll love this delicious vegan buttercream frosting made with white chocolate.

Vegan Chili Lime Buttercream @ Cooking On Caffeine

This Vegan Chili Lime Buttercream not only has an addictive spicy kick, but it’s tangy sweetness will have you looking for new and creative combinations! Dairy-free, vegan, soy-free options.

Vegan Peanut Butter Frosting @ Veggie Inspired

Light and fluffy, yet decadent and rich, this Vegan Peanut Butter Frosting is the stuff dreams are made of! Pipe it on cupcakes, spread it on cake, slather it on graham crackers, sandwich it between cookies, dunk apple slices in it, or eat it by the spoonful!

Vegan Strawberry Buttercream Frosting @ Baked by Clo

This vegan strawberry buttercream frosting is quick, easy and requires no chilling time! It makes a beautiful pink addition to layer cakes, cupcakes and more.

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