Frosting Recipes

So I’m thinking to myself, “I wonder if anyone’s made a red wine cake frosting.”  You have port wine at dessert, perhaps accompanied by some cookies.  Why can’t you mix your wine with your cake?

Naturally, you would think that a red wine cake frosting would combine well with a cream cheese frosting or a ricotta cake – a new take on the wine and cheese plate, perhaps.

But this red wine chocolate cake frosting recipe surprised us and knocked our socks off.   Twin Tables developed the recipe for Red Wine Rosemary Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Red Wine Chocolate Frosting.  The red wine and dark chocolate is a lovely combination, and made even more sophisticated by the addition of fresh herbs.

Here’s the fabulous frosting recipe.  Cake recipe and full instructions after the jump.

Red Wine Chocolate Frosting Recipe By Twin Tables

2 3/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
6 tablespoons dark chocolate cocoa powder
6 tablespoons butter
5 tablespoons red wine
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Fresh sprigs of rosemary

To make the frosting, sift together the confectioners’ sugar and cocoa powder in a medium bowl; set aside.

In a large bowl, cream butter until smooth, then gradually beat in sugar mixture alternately with the red wine. Blend in vanilla and beat until light and fluffy. Frost the cooled cupcakes and top with fresh sprigs of rosemary in a fun design.

Twin Tables: Iron Cupcake – Round Two.

Coca Cola Cake Coke Frosting

Here is a fun, retro cake frosting recipe from the Coca Cola website.  It is a Coca Cola Heritage Recipe, right up there with Diet Cherry Coke Lentils (not kidding) and Easy Coca Cola Chicken.  You will find the accompanying Cola Cake recipe after the link.

Easy Coca Cola Cake Frosting Recipe
1/2 cup butter
3 tablespoons cocoa
6 tablespoons Coca-Cola
1 box (16 ounces) confectioners’ sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans

To make frosting, combine butter, cocoa and Coca-Cola in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and pour over confectioners’ sugar, blending well. Add vanilla extract and pecans. Spread over hot cake. When cool, cut into squares and serve.

Coca-Cola Recipes: Coca-Cola Cake, Coca-Cola Meatballs, Heritage Recipes & More.

I had been looking for a cherry frosting recipe that didn’t start with “buy a tub of cherry frosting” or end with “then add red food coloring.”  It shouldn’t be too hard to make a cherry frosting from scratch!

We finally found this lovely cherry frosting recipe from Pretty Enough To Eat who puts it on some deep, delicious chocolate cupcakes.  The combination of sour cream and whipped cream are a nice compliment to the cherry flavor and make the frosting smooth and spreadable.  She mentions using cherry extract to enhance the cherry flavor which we think is a great idea.  Though we don’t always like to buy expensive ingredients for just one dish, you can also use cherry extract in chocolate cake recipes, as well as for cocktails or limeade.

Cherry Frosting Recipe

• 8 oz sour cream
• 1 c whipping cream
• 1 1/2 c powdered sugar
• 2 T maraschino cherry juice

In a large mixing bowl combine one 8-ounce carton sour cream, 1 cup whipping cream (already whipped-trust me, it doesn’t turn out with just the cream!) 1 ½ cups powdered sugar, and 2 Tablespoons maraschino cherry juice. Beat on medium-high until fluffy.

Cake and garnish details and photos after the link.

Pretty Enough to Eat – Cherry Chocolate Cupcakes – your homebased mom.

This Wilton 12 Piece Brownie Decorating Set is a fabulous way for families to spend time together enjoying delicious treats during the holidays. Kids can discover the fun of cake decorating starting with brownies. Instead of serving plain old brownies, you can cut up a tray of brownies into squares and add special decorative frosting flourishes to each one. These personalized brownies can make a beautiful dessert tray or a lovely gift.

This Wilton Decorating Kit Includes a book of frosting recipes and techniques (helpful if you have limited pastry bag experience). You also get pastry bags and frosting tips for the main decorating shapes – rosettes, stars, drop flowers
and more.

One thing you may notice as you browse recipes on Frosting-Recipes.com is how similar some of them can be to eachother.  But a few drops of lemon extract here, or a teaspoon of cinnamon there can transform not just your frosting recipe, but an entire dessert.  This means that frostings are a great place to experiment with flavor combinations.  Sure, we know that peanut butter cake would be good with chocolate frosting, but what about marshmallow or caramel frosting?

We loved this flavor combination at Dulcedo for Rhubarb Cornmeal Cupcakes with Cardamom Frosting.  It shows how playing with a small amount of a zest, spice or flavor, in this case cardamom, transforms a recipe into an unusually delicious surprise.

Cardamom Frosting (cupcake and compote recipes after the jump)

Adapted from a recipe by Cheryl at The Cupcake Bakeshop
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
3-4 cups sifted powdered sugar
1 teaspoons vanilla
1/8 cup light vanilla soy milk
1/8 teaspoon cardamom

In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter at medium-high speed until creamy. Add half of the sifted sugar, the vanilla, the milk, and the cardamom. Beat until combined. Gradually add the remaining sugar until the frosting reaches your desired consistency.

Dulcedo: rhubarb cornmeal cupcakes with cardamom frosting.