Some of my favorite recipes don’t come from a trendy blog or a shiny cookbook—they come from a handwritten note tucked into a ...

Cream the butter and sugar until combined and smooth. Add the eggs. Add the vanilla, and sour cream and ... the cookies with a nice thin layer of icing. Then I added the eyes and using a flat ...

Use this simple buttercream icing ... Add half of the icing sugar and beat until smooth. Add the remaining icing sugar and one tablespoon of the milk and vanilla extract and beat the mixture ...

While the staples of the buttercream are the same - butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract - Jane’s added a secret ingredient for brightening that often yellow-tinged frosting: purple food ...