Homemade Buttercream Frosting Recipes

By Southern Living

Create a sweet topper for cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and more with these indulgent buttercream frosting recipes.

Buttercream frosting is a delicious way to add flavor to your favorite cake, and while everyone loves chocolate and vanilla frostings we know that sometimes you may also want something more. These buttercream frosting recipes make adding the flavors of summer and the South to your favorite cake or cupcake simple. Buttercream recipes like Mint Chocolate Chip Buttercream Frosting and Bourbon Buttercream Frosting will kick your frosting up a notch. The frosting recipes for our Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and our Ultimate Vanilla Buttercream Frosting will become your go-to buttercream recipes. So enjoy the richness of this wonderful way to finish your cake. These frosting recipes will have you making an extra batch so you can spread it on as thick as you'd like.

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Ultimate Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: Ultimate Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

This creamy buttercream recipe is the perfect amount of sweetness. If you love lots of frosting, double the recipe.

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Lemon-Orange Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Jennifer Davick

Recipe: Lemon-Orange Buttercream Frosting

Serve a cake with this bright, decadent frosting at your next get together. This recipe goes with Lemon-Orange Chiffon Cake.

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Key Lime Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: Key Lime Buttercream Frosting

This key lime frosting is refreshing and easy. It only takes 10 minutes to prepare and can be doubled if you love lots of frosting.

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Raspberry Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: Raspberry Buttercream Frosting

Add fresh raspberries to a classic buttercream frosting and brighten both the flavor and the color of your favorite layer cake or cupcake recipes. Love blackberries? Try our Blackberry Buttercream Frosting too.

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White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Iain Bagwell

Recipe: White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

This white chocolate frosting is an all-around favorite topping for cakes, cupcakes, or cookies.

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Butterscotch-Caramel Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: Butterscotch-Caramel Buttercream Frosting

Try this creamy, butterscotch-caramel frosting on your favorite cake recipe. If you love lots of frosting, (or just want to lick the bowl) double the recipe.

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Mint Chocolate Chip Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: Mint Chocolate Chip Buttercream Frosting

Grown-ups will swoon over the peppermint schnapps flavor in this wintry buttercream frosting.

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Orange Buttercream

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: Orange Buttercream  

Sweet citrus flavor is packed into each bite of this buttercream-topped cake. This frosting goes with Fresh Citrus Cupcakes.

 

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Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Tina Cornett

Recipe: Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Create the ultimate chocolate-lovers dessert with this rich topping. This recipe goes with Chocolate-Strawberry Basket Cake.

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Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Lee Harrelson

Recipe: Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

Perk up a traditional buttercream frosting by adding fresh chopped strawberries. The fresh strawberries add flavor and a beautiful pink tone to the frosting. Try it with Triple-Decker Strawberry Cake for a dessert that's truly out of this world.

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Bourbon Buttercream Frosting

Recipe: Bourbon Buttercream Frosting

Fill and frost a layer cake with a rich buttercream frosting accented with bourbon. Try this recipe with Chocolate-Bourbon-Pecan Cake for an irresistable result.

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Cappuccino Buttercream Frosting

Recipe: Cappuccino Buttercream Frosting

Add a package of instant mocha cappuccino mix to butter and powdered sugar for a coffee-flavored buttercream frosting. The recipe goes with Cappuccino-Frosted Brownies.

 

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Amaretto Buttercream Frosting

Photo: Ralph Anderson

Recipe: Amaretto Buttercream Frosting

Take your cake the extra mile with this simple and delicious frosting. Try it with Chocolate-Amaretto Heart.

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Double Shot Latte Buttercream

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: Double Shot Latte Buttercream

Give your dessert an extra kick with espresso-infused buttercream. This recipe goes with Mocha Latte Cupcakes and Cappuccino Cupcakes.

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Salted Caramel Buttercream

Photo: Beth Dreiling Hontzas

Recipe: Salted Caramel Buttercream

The flaked salt really does bring out the flavor of the sweet in the caramel-cream cheese frosting. This recipe goes with Salted Caramel-Chocolate Cupcakes.

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