Recipe
5 Ways to Make Store-Bought Frosting Less Vanilla
Welcome to Pimp My Ride. Um, I mean Pimp My Frosting. We’re about to show you how to take your boring plain pre-made frosting and turn it into something beautiful and full of flavor on boring old cupcakes. They’re dope. They’re blinged out. They wear $200 Jordans.
The following recipes call for ingredients based on the idea that you might make a variety. If you want to have more frosting for more cakes or cupcakes, just multiply the ingredients for whatever you need.
Cookie Monster Frosting
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Servings: 4-5 cupcakes
- Easy
Ingredients
- 1/3 can white frosting
- 3 crushed Oreos
- Blue dye
Step 1
Scoop frosting into a bowl.
Step 2
Add blue dye and mix.
Step 3
Frost the cupcake.
Step 4
Crush up Oreos and sprinkle on top. Enjoy.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Servings: 6-8 cupcakes
- Easy
Ingredients
- 1/3 can white frosting
- 4 oz cream cheese
Step 1
Scoop frosting into a bowl.
Step 2
Add cream cheese and mix.
Step 3
Frost that sucker. Add something fun to it if you’d like. Enjoy.
S'mores Frosting
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Servings: 7-9 cupcakes
- Easy
Ingredients
- 1/3 can white frosting
- 8-9 tablespoon Fluff
- 2 tablespoon Nutella
- 1/2 tablespoon milk
- 2 long graham crackers
- Chocolate squares
Step 1
Mix the frosting and Fluff.
Step 2
Frost the cupcake.
Step 3
Hulk smash some graham crackers.
Step 4
Dip the cupcake into a bowl of the crushed graham crackers.
Step 5
Add Nutella to a microwave safe bowl and nuke it for 15-20 seconds.
Step 6
Mix some milk into the Nutella until smooth.
Step 7
Drizzle the Nutella onto the cupcake with a spoon.
Step 8
Place a chocolate square on top of the cupcake, light a campfire, and enjoy.
Strawberry Jello Frosting
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Servings: 4-5 cupcakes
- Easy
Ingredients
- 1/3 can white frosting
- 3/4 teaspoon Jello powder
- Strawberries
Step 1
Scoop the frosting into a bowl. Déjà vu. Mix in Jell-o powder to desired taste.
Step 2
Frost that pretty, pretty cupcake.
Step 3
Top it off with a strawberry and enjoy.
Peppermint Frosting
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Servings: 4-5 cupcakes
- Easy
Ingredients
- 1/3 can frosting
- 1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1/2 York Peppermint Patty
- Green food dye
Step 1
Scoop out frosting into a bowl.
Step 2
Mix in food dye and peppermint extract.
Step 3
Frost the cupcake.
Step 4
Add a half of a York Peppermint Patty. Or a whole one if you’re living large. Enjoy.