Frosting Recipes

This apricot yogurt frosting recipe is meant for a nice, moist yogurt cake.  We love yogurt 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 yogurt, particularly if you’re adding high quality fruit preserves to the mix.  But you can always experiment with either the preserves or yogurt flavors to best compliment your cake.

Apricot Yogurt Frosting Recipe (Yogurt Pound Cake Recipe after the Jump)

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

This o range buttercream frosting recipe can work beautifully with chocolate or vanilla cake.  Or, you may think about it with berry-lemon flavored cupcakes, yogurt cake, or even an orange caramel combination.  It’s beautiful garnished with chopped nuts, chocolate shavings, chocolate sprinkles, or left just as they are with the fluffy frosting piled high.

Here’s yet another delicious recipe from the Cupcake Project.  Check out pics and more after the jump.

• 1/2 C (1 stick) butter, room temperature
• 3 oz (about 1/3 C) orange marmalade (try to find one with orange bits in it)
• 1 1/2 C powdered sugar
• 1 T heavy cream
• 1/2 t vanilla extract
• 1/2 t orange extract

1. Beat butter until creamy.
2. Beat in marmalade.
3. Beat in powdered sugar.
4. Add heavy cream and extracts.
5. Taste and smile. It should frost about 12 cupcakes, depending on how much you use.

Buttercream Frosting Recipe – Orange Frosting ~ Cupcake Project.

Fig frosting is one we don’t see very often.  Figs can be so sweet and concentrated, they’re more often used in cakes that are balanced with a mellow vanilla or cream cheese frosting.   So, we were excited to see the opposite: a butter cake with a fig frosting!  We think the butter cake recipe is great for tempering the rich figs.   You may also consider a fig-goat cheese frosting lightly drizzled with honey.

Fig Frosting Recipe

1 egg white, unbeaten
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel
1 drop almond extract
1/3 cup chopped figs

Combine egg white, sugar, water, and lemon juice in top of double boiler, beating with mixer until well mixed. Place over rapidly boiling water, beating constantly, and cook for 4 minutes, or until frosting will stand in peaks. Remove from the boiling water and add lemon peel, almond extract, and figs. Beat until thick enough to spread. Frosts top and sides of an 8-inch square cake.

Butter Cake Recipe with Fig Frosting.

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We were recently discussing the advantages and disadvantages of using different fats in frosting.  Sometimes I find a buttercream frosting to taste so much like sweetened butter that it’s just not enjoyable.  (I eat it, but don’t enjoy it).

We liked this lemon cake frosting recipe designed to top a gorgeous lemon cake.   The frosting includes a combination of heavy cream and butter which we think makes an ideal blend of fluffy and rich.  The lemon juice and lemon zest also freshen it up.

Lemon Frosting Recipe

1/2 pound unsalted butter, softened
1 large egg yolk (optional)
1 pound confectioners’ sugar
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons heavy cream
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

In a standing mixer fitted with the whisk, beat the butter and egg yolk at medium-high speed until creamy. Beat in the sugar at low speed. Beat in the cream, vanilla and salt, then beat at medium-high speed until fluffy, 3 minutes longer. Beat in the lemon zest and juice.

Lemon cake recipe after the jump.

Lemon Cake with Lemon Frosting Recipe | Food & Wine.