Confectionary sugar frosting

Also known as American buttercream, icing or just frosting, this icing is easy to make and wonderful for all kinds of cakes. You can add any flavor or coloring to make it your very own.

Use this powdered sugar icing on Christmas cookie recipes, to drizzle over your favorite cakes, and any other sweet treat you desire. When you don't want or need heavy-duty buttercream, keep a bag of icing sugar around. This powdered sugar frosting adds just the right amount of sweetness without going too far.

The very best sugar cookie frosting there is. This unique frosting is a dance of flavors, all complimenting each other and changing the sugar cookie for the better.

This Easy Sugar Cookie Frosting Recipe is based on my favorite vanilla buttercream. It's fluffy and creamy, and comes together in 10 minutes.

This Sugar Cookie Frosting has a creamy texture with the best flavor! Two options: spread/pipe or melt and dip!

An easy way to elevate cakes, cookies, muffins, and countless other baked goods! This simple 2 ingredient recipe will instantly step up any dessert. Read below for how to make this same recipe into either an icing or a glaze.

This is the best classic white frosting for cakes and cupcakes.

Creamy, buttery frosting that is perfect for sugar cookies. A bit of almond extract gives it amazing flavor!

This is the sugar cookie frosting recipe you've been searching for! The best sugar cookies can be ruined by a bad frosting, but not in your kitchen anymore! You can always rely on this homemade icing to deliver a smooth, creamy, and bursting with rich, buttery vanilla flavor.

Here is how you make the powdery goodness we all know and love as icing, from regular granulated sugar: