Frosting Recipes

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 frosting” or end with “then add red food coloring.”  It shouldn’t be too hard to make a cherry frosting from scratch!

We love cherry frosting on a buttermilk or vanilla cake, chocolate brownies or even a citrus flavored cake.  You’ll also love it with this Coca cola cake recipe. Dark chocolate shavings and fresh cherries make a lovely garnish no matter what flavor of cake or cupcake.

We finally found this lovely cherry frosting recipe from Pretty Enough To Eat who puts it on some deep, delicious chocolate cupcakes.  This one of the easier versions as it doesn’t call for preparing egg whites, although they will make the icing nice and fluffy!   We also prefer recipes like this that don’t call for corn syrup.  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 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 fruit extract in chocolate cake recipes, as well as for cocktails or limeade.

One way to cut down on the fat is to substitute yogurt for the sour cream.  Be sure to chill it before frosting to avoid drips and messes.

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.

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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 has a unique and strong flavor that is used both in sweet cakes and savory dishes such as curries.  It adds an aromatic quality to the cake, and balances the intense-tasting rhubarb fruit compote.

For this recipe, feel free to use a different type of milk instead of the vanilla soy if you don’t have it available.   A little cardamom goes a long way but if you’ve added the requisite amount and it’s not apparent enough, add more in the tiniest of amounts.  I’ve found in making a cardamom tea cake that it surprisingly took more of the strong spice for the flavor to come through.

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.

This yogurt frosting recipe with apricot preserves is meant for a nice, moist yogurt cake.  We love this frosting because it lightens up the butter and adds a bit of glossiness to the frosting.  It’s fun to experiment with different flavors of yogurt depending on what you have available.  We tend to go with plain, particularly if you’re adding high quality fruit preserves to the mix.  But you can always experiment with either one, to find the flavors that best compliment your cake.  A full fat yogurt tends to make a better cake frosting for its consistency, and allow you to reduce some of the butter in the recipe as well.   But lower fat versions are also feasible.  (Also, check out our other super simple Greek yogurt frosting recipe.)

Fresh, ripe fruit can work beautifully in these frosting recipes if you are using a blender, rather than mixing by hand.  Apricot season begins in mid-May, so during that time of year, opt for the fresh ripe fruit, rather than preserves from a jar.  Strawberries, raspberries or even citrus (fresh or preserves) make a great alternative to the apricots in the recipe.  Depending on the sweetness of the fruit, you can reduce the amount of sugar considerably.  You can also try a flavored yogurt such as cherry, combined with apricot preserves for a glorious result.

We like this cake or cupcake frosting recipe on chocolate or angel food cake and garnished with crushed almonds, fresh raspberries or dried apricots.

Apricot Yogurt Frosting Recipe (Related pound cake recipe after the jump)

Flora’s Recipe Hideout: Yogurt Pound Cake With Apricot Yogurt Frosting.