Once you learn how easy it is to make your own delicious frosting at home, you'll never buy the stuff in containers again. The key to making a perfect cream cheese frosting is using the correct ...

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.

making the skin quite tasty. Although this was undoubtedly a sugary dish, the subtle tanginess of the cream-cheese frosting kept everything from being cloyingly sweet. In my opinion, a traditional ...