Q&A for How to Make Store‐Bought Frosting Better

Toffee is essentially butter and sugar, the same ingredients as frosting. To make toffee-flavored frosting, simply add toffee to the frosting. Melt and add toffee sweets or candies, obtain and add toffee powder or add toffee-flavored pudding to your frosting with extra sugar to maintain density. Buying toffee frosting might be an even easier option.

Yes! Just keep in mind that if you add melted peanut butter instead of room temperature peanut butter, you may need to add powdered sugar to even out the consistency.

Spoon canned frosting into a microwave-safe bowl. Stir the frosting and continue to heat in 5-second intervals if necessary, until all the icing is melted. Let cool slightly for a minute or so. The frosting should now be a thin glaze you can drizzle onto desserts such as cakes and cookies.

It is not recommended. The consistency of the buttercream would change and become either too thick or to0 thin. It would also have a large impact on the taste too, not very pleasant.

Mascarpone has a very good flavor and similar texture to cream cheese ,so that would be a good substitute for this recipe.

It is not recommended to put jello pudding in frosting. As for grainy frosting, it helps to add 1-2 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream (make sure that you use a mixer and whip the cream in). Another solution is to let your frosting sit for a few hours or overnight.

t would change the consistency of the frosting, either making it too thick or too thin. It would also change the taste. You could experiment though, just as long as you're prepared for it to not work out as you'd like.

Yes, you can definitely do that. I use a mixer on the whipped setting to make my icing and easy pipe it afterwards.

Whipped cream or whipped cream based frostings can be used for piping onto cakes or cupcakes. You'll need to make sure that the whipped cream base is thick enough to be piped properly, which can be achieved by extra whipping. Also keep in mind that piped whipped cream could easily lose its shape on the cake if you wait a while to eat it, or if it is not chilled.

You can, but the flavor of chocolate syrup in cream cheese frosting may be odd. It may work better in a canned vanilla buttercream frosting.

Yes, but beware that it could easily get too rich or too bitter. You may want to keep powdered sugar on hand to return the sweetness.

Sure! You could do this using some coconut milk and powdered sugar, or just adding shredded coconut.

Yes, although cocoa powder would preserve the texture of frosting better than syrup would. Using chocolate syrup would most likely need extra powdered sugar to thicken the consistency. Cocoa powder is bitter though, so try adding it about a teaspoon at a time so as not to overdo it.

You could, but this may interfere with the consistency and thickness of the frosting. Whipping the frosting itself is a better was to make it lighter, whether you whip it with a whisk or a mixer.

Chocolate frosting is easy to enhance, just by adding mix-ins. You could try adding a little bit of orange extract, some orange zest, extracts, safe to eat cookie dough, or other such tasty additions.

You can add coffee to a store bought frosting. You may need to add powdered sugar to the frosting though, as coffee can water down the consistency.

Yes, use vanilla or plain frosting and customise it. Add half the amount needed for your frosting. For example, if you use 2 tablespoons of frosting, then you use one tablespoon peanut butter. You can also use jam.

You can stir in coconut shreds for flavor, but it might give the frosting a weird texture.

Yes, but be sure not to add too much. You can also mix in a little canned pumpkin if you want it to taste like pumpkin pie.

If you whip heavy cream and mix it with the frosting, then it will be fluffier.