You could spend countless hours on YouTube trying to learn how to decorate a cake. And in a lot of instances, the pros in these videos use a variety of special tools like bench scrapers, offset ...

“Buttercream with 50 percent butter and 50 percent shortening is more stable than all-butter. For lettering, adding corn syrup instead of water can help with stretchability.” “If you’re doing a layer ...

Kat Thompson is the associate editor of Eater at Home, covering home cooking and baking, cookbooks, and kitchen gadgets. Despite the fact that I’m a cooking editor, I don’t have much experience with ...

Despite the fact that I’m a cooking editor, I don’t have much experience with cake decorating. I bake a lot, sure, but I typically top my cakes with dollops of whipped cream and sliced strawberries or ...

Molly Yeh is a food blogger and cookbook author who has contributed numerous recipes to Food & Wine and is the host of the Food Network show Girl Meets Farm. Freezing the cake layers for at least an ...

Focusing on three key trends in the baking world – fondant, buttercream and layer cakes – local cake experts Trina Thomson from Sweet Ruby Cakes (pictured below), Melinda Preston from Cake Your ...

When in need of a cake for a special occasion, it may be easier to snag something from the store, but we're here to convince you to take on the challenge of making a showstopping cake yourself. It'll ...

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It took just two minutes for the experts at Cake International to decorate this stunning cake – using only buttercream. So, we’re sure us mere mortals could knock together something similar in about ...

This video shows how to create beautiful princess doll cakes. Each cake is shaped to look like a princess dress, complete with glitter and details. The process includes shaping the base, decorating ...

The Blonde Who Bakes is sharing her secrets! Whitney Berge joined us on the show to demonstrate how she gets a beautiful "drip" on a cake. Once that is ready, she walked us through the topping process ...