How To Make Easy Cream Cheese Frosting without Butter

Cream cheese frosting on a pink spatula held up against a gray background

Whip up this 3 ingredient cream cheese frosting in just a few minutes for the perfect sweet, slightly tangy icing for your favorite cake or cupcakes (pretty great on cinnamon rolls too…). This is my dad’s favorite frosting. It’s the frosting I first learned to make. I didn’t even know about buttercream until I was nearly an adult. This is … Read More

How To Make Strawberry Buttercream

Strawberry Buttercream

Rich strawberry buttercream is the perfect choice to top your next birthday cake or cupcakes. Made with freeze dried strawberries to pack in all the strawberry flavor possible. What are freeze dried strawberries? Freeze dried strawberries are strawberries that have been, well, freeze dried. Freeze drying is the process of food preservation where the fruit is frozen, then the water … Read More

How To Make American Buttercream

How To Make American Buttercream

Learn how to make American buttercream. It’s easy, only requires 4 ingredients and about 10 minutes of time. Perfect for cakes, cupcakes, and cookies! What is American Buttercream? American buttercream is a style of buttercream that simply uses butter and powdered sugar. It’s a straightforward, simple buttercream recipe that requires no eggs and no cooking. American buttercream is a very … Read More

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream

Red Velvet Cupcake with White Chocolate Snowflake Topper and Cream Cheese Frosting

Red Velvet cupcakes (make easy with a cake mix) with cream cheese buttercream and topped with white chocolate snowflakes are a fun and festive way to celebrate the season! How To Make Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Buttercream Make red velvet cupcakes according to the package instructions for cupcakes. (I use a Betty Crocker mix and get about 24 … Read More

Easy Orange Cake Mix Sandwich Cookies with Honey Cream Cheese Filling

Easy cake mix orange cookies with honey cream cheese filling

  Easter in my family has always been a cause for a family celebration.  My grandma would host a big egg coloring party for all the kiddos on Good Friday.  She would boil up dozens and dozens of eggs.  Her entire farmhouse table would be covered in newspaper and lined with every mug in her cupboard.  Plop, fizz, we would … Read More

Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Buttercream

Chocolate stout cupcakes with peanut butter frosting

These chocolate stout cupcakes are, hands down, the best chocolate cake I have ever eaten. The cake is moist and chocolatey and the buttercream is smooth and sweet and just the right amount of peanut buttery. This recipe makes a million cupcakes (or like 48) but also bakes nicely into a bunt cake or a 9 inch 2 layer cake. … Read More