Fruit Filling Recipes

A simple from-scratch lemon cupcake has blackberry buttercream frosting. This cupcake is a refreshing hit! Garnish each cupcake with a blackberry or a pinch of lemon zest.

A luscious lemon custard. The perfect filling for white, yellow or citrus cakes!

This glaze is fresh and delicious. It uses real orange juice, not the stuff out of the container. It adds a real nice kick to angel food cake or any kind of loaf cake.

This is a very moist and light carrot muffin. It's not too sweet and not greasy like other carrot muffins/cakes. The White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing adds just enough sweetness to round it off.

Creamy frosting made with cream cheese and fresh strawberries. Perfect topping on a strawberry cake, white chocolate, lemon, or white cake. Also would be great for dipping strawberries in to eat!

German chocolate cake frosting that is cooked on top of the stove and put on warm cake while frosting is warm.

This recipe makes a tasty, not overly sweet or starchy, blueberry pie filling.

If you love the beautiful flavor, aroma, and color of strawberries, you will absolutely love this frosted strawberry cake.

This is a fantastic Bundt cake that my grandmother used to make for Thanksgiving. It has been a family favorite for years!

Mincemeat is a traditional English treat that is usually used as filling for mince pies during Christmas, but it tastes great mixed with vanilla ice cream, as well. This recipe uses butter instead of the traditional suet, which makes this mincemeat suitable for vegetarians. Store in the refrigerator for up to 6 weeks.

Can be used on banana cake, white cake or peanut butter cake.

Rich delectable Bundt® cake that won over the in-laws from the original banana cake they had used for years!

I wanted a frosting for a coconut layer cake that stood up to a stronger flavor without overpowering it and without being too sweet. If frosting a layer cake, I recommend spreading melted apricot preserves over the center layer, along with some frosting.

This frosting goes great on lemon cake, 7-up® cake, or lemon cookies.

This is a wonderful Easter cake. Everyone at my Easter barbeque loved it. Very moist and delightful.

This straightforward recipe delivers moist, dense, and delicious carrot cake with pineapple under a cream cheese frosting.

A sweet, lemony, fabulous cake, especially good in the summer.

This healthy lemon curd has all the rich lemony goodness of regular lemon curd with fewer calories and a little less fat. Use it for lemon tarts, on pancakes, or as a filling for layer cakes.

Cupcakes are all the rage. Here is a simple recipe that I love to use. You can get as creative as you feel with the decoration by adding colors to the Buttercream and piping it creatively, adding sprinkles, or topping them with coconut, these are great fun to make!

Traditional frosting and filling for German Chocolate cake.

A delightful twist on traditional strawberry shortcake using a glazed doughnut. Easy to prepare, yet an impressive dessert! Use store-bought doughnuts or your own glazed doughnut recipe.

Strawberry shortcake filling. Store in the refrigerator.

Great on Carrot Walnut Cookies (see recipe).

Here in the Northwest many friends are a) vegan b) avoiding dairy c) lactose-intolerant or d) all of the above. This recipe makes sure they don't miss out on one of the best parts of dessert: whipped cream! Keep a can or two of coconut milk in your fridge so that you're always ready to make this recipe! Variations on this basic version abound: add citrus zest, matcha (green tea) powder, cocoa, almond extract, pumpkin pie spice, mmm...! Plan ahead, because the coconut milk needs to chill overnight.