Store bought cake mixes and frosting have come along way, but that doesn’t mean that you might not feel a little guilty serving your family something you didn’t make from scratch. Even if you don’t mind serving these type of products, you may still want a frosting flavor that can’t be bought in the store. Luckily, you can easily add flavor to store bought frosting. Here are just a few creative ideas to get you started.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #1: Extracts
One of the easiest ways to add flavor to store bought frosting is to use extracts. There are several great extracts to choose from. You can find everything from cherry to root beer flavors. Just remember that a mere teaspoon is usually enough.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #2: Juice
Another easy way to add flavor to store bought frosting is to use juice. For example, let’s say you prepared an orange cake, but only have vanilla icing on hand. With just a splash of orange juice you can have orange icing.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #3: Chocolate Chips
One of my favorite ways to add flavor to store bought frosting is to stir in mini chocolate chips. I think the best combination is vanilla icing mixed with milk chocolate chips. This makes a great topping for chocolate cake or even strawberry cake.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #4: Crushed Peppermints
This is a wonderful way to flavor store bought frosting during the holidays. All you need to do is stir crushed peppermints into vanilla icing and frost a chocolate cake. To make things even easier, you can find crushed peppermints in the baking aisle.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #5: Flavored Coffee Syrups
I discovered this tip while working at a cafe that sold cinnamon buns. There are several different coffee syrups available and many of them would work wonderfully in store bought frosting. For example, you could add blackberry syrup to vanilla icing for a unique flavor.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #6: Ice Cream Sauces
Ice cream sauces are another great way to flavor store bought frosting. You can use any kind you want. For example, you could create a tropical icing by mixing vanilla icing with pineapple sauce, coconut, and rum extract.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #7: Maple Syrup
Another unique idea is to use maple syrup. A mixture of vanilla icing and maple syrup would be great on a spice cake. This would also be a great way to frost sugar cookies.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #8: Peanut Butter
Peanut butter is a great way to flavor store bought frosting, especially cream cheese and chocolate icing. Both of these combinations would work great on brownies or chocolate cake.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #9: Crushed Nuts
Crushed nuts are another great way to flavor store bought frosting. For example, walnuts stirred into chocolate frosting would be delicious.
Ten Ways to Flavor Store Bought Frosting #10: Candy
Last, but not least, you can use your favorite kind of candy. All you have to do is chop the candy into small pieces and stir it into your favorite flavor of icing.
