Filling recipes

31 Cake Filling Ideas to Sweeten Your Creations. Craving delightful dessert ideas? Dive into these 31 cake filling ideas to add layers of sweetness and flavor to your masterpiece, making every bite irresistible!

Chocolate pastry cream is smooth, creamy, and perfect for use as a cake or cupcake filling, or to use with other pastries.

Try a few of these incredible, delicious filled cupcakes that are perfect for any occasion. They are all easy to make but look impressive!

Pastry cream is a delicious pudding-like custard recipe that you never knew you needed! Also called Crème Pâtissière, this French staple is an important part of many desserts, like eclairs and fruit tarts. It is similar to vanilla pudding but much thicker (perfect for piping and filling Bavarian Cream Donuts!) It is made in 10 minutes and uses pantry staples: egg yolks, milk, and cornstarch.

This easy strawberry cake filling is made with fresh juicy strawberries, uses only 4 ingredients, and comes together in 20 minutes!

Whether you're looking for something chocolatey, fruity, or creamy, there's sure to be a recipe on this list of 35+ easy cake filling recipes that's perfect for your next baking project.

A better-than-Dunkin' Bavarian Cream Donut: pillowy-soft fried dough, big enough to hold spoonfuls of creamy Bavarian filling, dunked in powdered sugar.

This is the dreamiest and creamiest vanilla frosting you will ever come across with absolutely zero grittiness. It is silky smooth and not heavy nor dense. Whipped White Chocolate Ganache Frosting is made with just 3 ingredients and easy to prepare. Say goodbye to super sweet buttercream and say hello to this incredible whipped ganache!

This easy pastry cream recipe can be used to fill cream puffs, eclairs, cakes, cupcakes, and so much more!

This raspberry compote cake and cupcake filling is so fresh-tasting and super easy to make! All you need are four ingredients, and it uses frozen raspberries, so you can make it any time of the year! A 1x batch will fill one 6" three-layer cake or about 14 cupcakes and a 2x batch will fill one 8" three-layer cake or about 28 cupcakes.