Icing Recipes

Mary Berry's iced fairy cakes

Make perfectly soft, sweet fairy cakes every time with Mary Berry's iced fairy cakes recipe. Ready in just 30 minutes, this recipe makes 12 fairy cakes...

Sticky toffee cupcakes with salted caramel buttercream

Dark chocolate cupcakes

Fiona Cairns' rose fairy cakes

Lavender fairy cakes

Hummingbird Bakery cream cheese frosting

Top your cakes or cupcakes with this delicious and easy cream cheese frosting recipe, from the famous Hummingbird Bakery.

Buttercream icing

This classic buttercream icing recipe is the perfect way to top cakes and cupcakes. Once you've mastered this basic recipe you'll be able to experiment with various flavours and colours

Cherry bakewell French fancies

These cherry bakewell French fancies are gorgeously sweet with a delightfully fluffy texture, the ideal pick me up on a hazy lazy summer’s afternoon.

Chocolate buttercream icing

Our easy chocolate buttercream icing recipe from Primrose Bakery is the best. Top your cakes or cupcakes than with a rich and creamy chocolate buttercream

Primrose Bakery's lemon buttercream

This classic lemon buttercream recipe gives your cakes a real zingy finish. Use this icing from the Primrose Bakery on the lemon cupcakes or to ice a lemon layer cake

Italian meringue buttercream

Looking for cupcake recipes, woman's weekly recipes, recipe videos, cupcakes or buttercream recipes? Don't fork out loads for a wedding or birthday cake! Woman's Weekly's Sue McMahon shows us how to ice beautiful cupcakes in a step-by-step recipe video.

Double choc fudge cake with white chocolate buttercream

This double chocolate cake recipe is perfect as a birthday cake, party cake or afternoon tea. Find this and other chocolate cake recipes at goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes

White chocolate buttercream Victoria sponge

A classic Victoria sponge with white chocolate buttercream is a lovely little twist on a traditional recipe. The chocolate adds a lovely extra flavour

Carrot cake with lemon cream cheese frosting

Carrot cake on it's own tastes great but even more so with soft and tangy lemon cheese frosting - perfect for afternoon tea or a birthday cake with a difference.

Reduced-sugar buttercream

Want to cut down on the sugar content in your cakes? Try topping your cupcakes with Victoria Threader's reduced-sugar buttercream

Classic swirl cupcakes

Looking for a cupcake recipe? Wondering how to get those professional-looking swirls on top of your cupcakes? Goodtoknow's cupcake queen Victoria Threader shows you how. The colour and toppings are up to you!

American frosting

This delicious soft icing is a little tricky to make, so follow the instructions exactly. Quick and accurate decisions are necessary in judging when the icing is ready and then it must be applied to the cake immediately

Basic meringue buttercream

Woman's Weekly's buttercream frosting is creamier topping than traditional icing. For more recipes visit goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes

Fiona Cairns' Carrot pecan cake with maple syrup and orange buttercream

Fiona Cairns says: 'This moist cake rose to prominence in the 1970s and remains hugely popular. The flavours in the buttercream are a wonderful complement.'

Red velvet whoopie pies with orange buttercream

Whoopie pies and red velvet cake are about the greatest things to have come from America! Try this delicious combination of both, for a sweet treat you'll want to make again