Flavored Icing

[lifeonthesideline]

What is your favorite flavored icing recipe? I have recently found a strawberry buttercream icing that I am really wanting to try out that uses fresh strawberries. I haven't had the time to try it out yet, but I'm hoping to be able to make it over the weekend. I will definitely post the recipe and my thoughts on it once I make it.

It got me thinking about other flavors I could experiment with. We live in South Florida and have mango tress, so I thought I may attempt to alter the strawberry recipe and use fresh mango puree as well.

I would love to hear what others have tried and loved.

 

[mdavidson7616]

I'm pretty much a strawberry frosting person. As a child, I always wanted chocolate icing. Now I find chocolate frosting too sweet and overpowering. We use strawberry frosting on everything. It is my husband's favorite too. I've wondered about banana frosting or some combination. I always have overripe bananas.

 

[NThomas]

I like making lemon buttercream. This goes great on a vanilla or white cake. I use the standard buttercream recipe and then add lemon zest and lemon extract. Orange frosting is something that I like to make to go on dark chocolate cake. I make the same way except I use orange zest and orange juice.

 

[JessiFox]

Nothing wrong with the classics, but I'm always up for trying new flavors as well. The mango sounds like it could be good, or maybe even a pineapple or passion fruit flavor. Not highly original or anything, but I *love* lavender and chocolate together.

 

[SweetSerendipity]

For a simple flavored icing, I have added Jello mix to my basic powdered-sugar based icing. Not only does it add flavor, but you also get the color. I recently made an orange icing from a Jello mix that was delicious. You do have to be careful, though, because it can be very tangy and overpowering if you add too much. I have also used koolaid in the past too. My kids loved it, it was easy, and you have a ton of flavor options available!

 

[Eileen101]

I love cream cheese icing. I love all the traditional sweets you can eat with it too like red velvet cake; carrot cake; pumpkin bread; and chocolate cake.

 

[Trellum]

I love the idea of creating your own icing using pureed mangoes I best it'd be so tasty! I do that all the time, but so far have only done it with strawberries. I love the flavor, because I no longer like my desserts to be so sweet, so the strawberry icing is perfect, because it's not a very sweet fruit and is a bit acidic!

 

[Trellum]

I'm pretty much a strawberry frosting person. As a child, I always wanted chocolate icing. Now I find chocolate frosting too sweet and overpowering. We use strawberry frosting on everything. It is my husband's favorite too. I've wondered about banana frosting or some combination. I always have overripe bananas.

Oh my, banana icing sounds like a really delicious thing to try, specially on cupcakes! I once tried a banana flavored cupcake, it had banana icing and it was delicious! I'd love to try it as well, not sure about trying it on a cake, but for sure I'd like to try next time I make cupcakes.