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.

This recipe allows you to choose your own adventure. Keep it simple and leave out the extras or load them in — the choice is yours. What’s not negotiable here is the frosting. Cream cheese ...

Tricia is a recipe developer and tester for Dotdash ... She tops the cooled pastry ring with cream cheese icing, then sprinkles it with sanding sugars in the traditional Mardi Gras colors: gold ...

So much so, that we’ve asked the wonderful Primrose Bakery to share their special pumpkin cupcake recipe with us (and you!), which even comes with spiced cream cheese icing. This is the recipe ...