You can use any topping you like for these caramel-apple grapes. Chopped peanuts or any other nuts work great as well as sprinkles, M&Ms, chocolate bits.

Apple butter is basically a spreadable apple pie filling, only better! Any classic cooking apple should work in this recipe. Though the cooking time is long, it's super easy and pretty hands-free. Pair this apple butter with some sharp Cheddar on a cheese plate, or slather it onto cheesy biscuits.

This royal icing with cream of tartar is easy to make and perfect for decorating gingerbread houses.

Light and fluffy angel food cake frosting. It has all the taste of a boiled frosting with very little effort! Sometimes I like to change it up a bit and use maple or peppermint extract instead of vanilla.

Try this buttercream frosting made with granulated sugar instead of powdered sugar. It's the best for chocolate cakes and cupcakes. This recipe makes enough to frost the top of a 9x13-inch cake.

This microwave lemon curd recipe is quick and easy to make. It's particularly useful when you're going to be entertaining but you're short on time. Store for up to three weeks in the refrigerator.

This whipped cream recipe is about the most amazing thing you will ever taste!

The cream-filled donuts in my cake shop are filled with this white cream filling. It's the filling used in smear face and cream horn pastries. I have looked forever for the Holland cream recipe for donuts but never had luck finding it, so I created my own.

This coconut and pecan frosting is great on many cakes, not the least of which is German chocolate cake.

This Bavarian cream is from my great-grandmother's recipe book.

A nice, basic meringue recipe. Egg whites beaten with cream of tartar, then sugar until those famous stiff peaks form — golly, that's good meringue! Use it to make meringue cookies, or top dessert pies.

This is an easy dairy-free frosting recipe I have tweaked to my liking after a few tries. It is very tasty and is pretty easy to make.