Everyone needs an excellent buttercream frosting in their sweets-baking toolbox!

Use this master recipe and go wild dreaming up your own flavours.

Heres ten scrumptious ideas to get you started.

Cream cheese frosting in a bowl, ready for spreading

Find the recipe on page 308 ofDinner.

This is a cookbook exclusive recipe!

This recipe is exclusive to my debut cookbookDinnerwhich includes a how-to video for every recipe.

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting on a white cake platter with a piece cut out, photographed from overhead.

Just scan the QR code!

The recipe video below is for the base buttercream frosting recipe.

Then add your flavourings of choice quantities and directions are inDinner!

Dinner cookbook by Nagi Maehashi from RecipeTin Eats

Just to explain….

I know, its confusing!

Youre so used to getting recipes on my website theres over 1,200 of them, after all.

And here you are looking at a tasty recipe video andI havent provided the recipe.

Im not just doing this to torture you, I promise.

Every recipe in the cookbook has a tutorial video.

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Browse all cookbook exclusive recipeshere

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Spoiler alert: theres A LOT of dirty dishes!!

And quite a lot ofDozer.