Easy to make, this sweet and delicious buttercream is the perfect birthday cake icing. You can dye it any color you like.

This gorgeous ganache is amazingly easy to make. Poured on rather than spread, ganache is wonderful over a Bundt or any other cake that calls for a sleek finish.

Vegetable cakes (such as carrot and zucchini) are the perfect platform for swoops of this tangy cream cheese frosting. This is easiest to spread at room temperature, but keep the cake refrigerated once frosted.

Decadent indeed, this frosting is a chocolate lover's dream come true. Creme fraiche offsets some of the richness. Use it to frost vanilla cake (or chocolate if you're a chocoholic).

A delicate flavor and light texture keep this frosting from being overwhelming. Coconut cake or lemon meringue cake are excellent bases for this frosting.

Versatility is the name of the game with this icing. Substituting liqueur, milk, or another citrus juice for the lemon juice lets you customize the icing for a variety of cakes. It's especially delicious drizzled atop loaf cakes.