to rich Chocolate and Cream Cheese Buttercream, these are the best buttercream, frosting, and icing recipes for every cake ...

In warmer kitchens it may help to add a pinch of cream ... buttercream. French-style buttercream is made in the same way, but with the addition of egg yolks, which produce a much richer icing.

Basic icing is sugar mixed with milk, which is then flavored with cream cheese, cocoa powder and butter or egg whites. The simplest frosting of all, glacé icing, is just powdered sugar and water.

Read on for my experience trying the signature Cinnabon frosting pint and its recipes ... cream-cheese frosting kept everything from being cloyingly sweet. In my opinion, a traditional buttercream ...