Smooth icing

Learn how to frost a cake with buttercream and get a smooth, perfect finish just like a professional cake decorator! Step-by-step tutorial with photos!

This silky, bright white frosting whips up in just seven minutes and topped on all of your favorite desserts.

My best cake decorating tips for frosting smooth buttercream cakes with sharp edges, plus the best vanilla buttercream recipe for a flawless finish!

Quick Powdered Sugar Icing: Learn how to make a smooth, glossy powdered sugar icing in minutes for your cookies and more.

Royal Icing can turn regular sugar cookies into little works of art! Smooth and shiny, royal icing and flood icing is actually simple to make and decorate with too. Royal icing is a mixture of powdered sugar, meringue powder and water. Once you’ve outlined your cookies with your royal icing outline, you’ll fill in your designs with “flood” icing. Flood icing is basically just a watered-down royal icing. This smooth royal icing recipe is perfect for decorating cut-out cookies.

If you’re looking for a silky smooth buttercream frosting recipe that is not too sweet or grainy, then this recipe is it! I find traditional American style buttercreams way too sweet, so I came up with my own version that has far less icing sugar (in relation to the amount of butter) compared to more traditional recipes. Best part is, it’s still stable enough to use for layered cakes and is great for piping too!

How long does it usually take you to frost a cake? It used to take me hours for one cake. Learn how to frost a cake with sharp edges using buttercream.

This is a traditional Easy Decorator Icing that bakeries use for birthday & wedding cakes. It’s easy to work with & sets quickly.

Yep, you CAN make fluffy and silky smooth frosting without powdered sugar. This frosting made with regular sugar is not a sad substitute for the classic buttercream frosting. It’s actually an old-fashioned technique, called Ermine frosting or boiled milk frosting! It’s truly perfect and NOT too sweet - you can use it to frost any cakes and cupcakes. It can be piped, spread, and dyed easily!

This is the only royal icing recipe you'll ever need! With no meringue powder needed, my secret ingredient makes this icing harden perfectly. Plus, I'm sharing my expert tips on adjusting your icing to the perfect consistency, coloring, and storing your icing.