This ultimate guide will get you familiar with all the different things you can frost, fill, ice and glaze cakes with – along with plenty of recipes to get you started too. The most important thing to note is the ratios of ingredients. It’s easy to assume that adjustments to those ratios won’t make a difference, but it does. Some types of fillings can also be used to cover the outside of the cake—many of the fillings listed below fall into this category.

1. Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese filling

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2. Cannoli layer cake with cinnamon sponge and mascarpone filling

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3. Vanilla custard cake filling

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4. Berry mascarpone layer cake

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5. Lemon raspberry layer cake

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6. Strawberry jelly layer cake filling

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7. Triple layer white cake with orange curd filling

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8. White chocolate layer cake with blueberry curd filling

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9. Raspberry white chocolate layer cake

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10. Six layer chocolate cake with toasted marshmallow filling and malted chocolate frosting

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11. Triple later chocolate cake with coconut cream cheese filling

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12. Chocolate chip cookie layer cake with cookie dough filling

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