What can I use for frosting?

Instead of frosting, try an alternative glaze or spread to top your cupcakes.

1. Drizzle the tops of your cupcakes with a simple sugar glaze.
2. Use fruit jam in place of frosting.
3. Use lemon curd in place of frosting.
4. Use peanut butter or another nut butter in place of frosting.
5. Spread cupcake tops with marshmallow cream.

What is homemade frosting made of?

Four simple ingredients—sugar, butter, vanilla and milk—come together in a homemade frosting recipe that proves the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Hundreds of home cooks and bakers have used this recipe for decorating cakes, filling layer cakes or topping off a pan of brownies.

What can be used instead of buttercream?

Jams and ganache are always great alternatives to buttercream fillings and hold-up well in warm weather. Is very rich. Uses egg yolks (or whole eggs) and is made the same way as Italian meringue.

What type of frosting is best for decorating?

Royal icing is one of the best icings for decorating cakes. Mixing together powdered sugar, egg whites, and meringue powder or liquid provides a consistency relative to pancake batter. This makes it easy to pour into pastry bags to fulfill your decorating dreams.

Can I use frosting instead of buttercream?

You should be able to use any canned frosting, but don’t use the whipped kind. I used Betty Crocker canned frosting for this recipe. Why not just make buttercream from scratch? You can certainly do that and I have a bunch of from scratch buttercream recipes on this website to choose from.

What are some good frosting recipes?

Cream butter and add sugar alternately with milk, use enough milk to have a semi thin icing, but not watery. Mix in vanilla. Separate icing into several bowls and tint each a different color. Frost cookies and decorate!

What is the best frosting ever?

Salted and organic butter is literally the best butter that you can use. It is the salt that really makes this the best buttercream frosting ever. It’s actually a myth that salted butter is an inferior quality – it’s not. It’s the same quality.

How do you make bakery style frosting?

DIRECTIONS Place butter, shortening, sugar, salt, vanilla and 2 tablespoons milk in a chopper and pulse 4 or 5 times for about 10 seconds each time. Add additional milk 1 tablespoon at a time and pulse until your reach the desired consistency. Make enough frosting for a 2 layer cake or one 9 x1 3 cake.

How do you make frosting without vanilla extract?

You can add 1 to 2 tablespoons of a range of different liquids to flavor frosting without using vanilla extract. Try orange juice, espresso, coffee liqueur or mint liqueur. If you choose this flavor option, subtract the amount of orange juice or espresso from the total amount of milk in the icing.