Quick and easy icing recipes

This vanilla glaze recipe is made with 3 simple ingredients and only takes 2 minutes to make. It is sweet and creamy with a hint of vanilla.

The best buttercream icing for cupcakes and cakes. Includes both vanilla and chocolate frosting recipes. You only need 4 ingredients: butter, confectioners sugar, vanilla and milk. Recipe will frost 24 cupcakes or a 9x13 cake.

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 basic, customizable confectioner's sugar glaze is an essential for any baker's recipe collection!

Classic, quick and easy American buttercream frosting recipe, requiring 4 ingredients. It holds its shape. Great for cake decorating and cupcake decorating!

This easy seven minute frosting recipe yields a really white, soft and fluffy icing that tastes like marshmallows. Great for topping cakes and cupcakes!

This 10-minute vanilla frosting recipe is creamy, rich, smooth, perfectly sweet, and the best frosting for spreading on homemade cakes.

This Cinnamon Brown Sugar Glaze is the perfect topping for cakes, donuts, cookies, quick breads, pastries, scones, and many other desserts.

I've had this recipe in my index box for years, but I've never tried it. To be honest, I buy the canned frosting. I've never in my life made my own homemade frosting, until last night. Oh, I'm never going back to canned again! It was so easy to make and my family absolutely loved it!

This sweet and simple vanilla buttercream frosting is easy to whip up and pipes beautifully. I love this recipe because it is easy, tastes great, and can be used in so many different ways. This frosting can be used for spreading, as a filler between cake layers, and it is perfect for piping.