Celebrations deserve beautifully decorated cakes. But instead of even layers with a smooth frosting finish, do your cakes end up lopsided with uneven layers? Follow these essential techniques that are ...
Make the Best-Ever Vanilla Buttercream Frosting recipe with my chef-tested tips and techniques! * WRITTEN RECIPE HERE: <a ...
Even after you’ve baked the perfect cake, making sure it's also perfectly frosted is another challenge entirely. Not only do you want the frosting to go on the cake evenly, but you also want it to ...
So all these years I have been doing this wrong. For years I have been trying to figure out how to keep from spilling the frosting all over the plate on which I put the cake. I wish I had seen this ...
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How to Decorate a Cake

For special occasions and birthday celebrations, there’s no better dessert than a perfectly decorated layered cake. But with ...
If someone had told me that the key to frosting the perfect cake was half a dozen huge ice cream scoopfuls of buttercream, I might have been more interested in baking. Who am I kidding? I just would ...
Those tall and lofty layer cakes might seem like a mountain that you can never climb, an impossible challenge best left to pastry professionals. But frosting a layer cake with buttercream doesn't have ...
Plus, what to expect on season 3 of "Buddy vs. Duff." Whether it's for a birthday, a baby shower or another occasion that demands a sweet, layered sponge with fluffy frosting -- the Cake Boss has you ...
I’m no baker. I have neither the patience for exactitude that baking requires, nor the sweet tooth that would drive me to practice my skills. Fortunately, when I need baking advice, I have many ...
Get introduced to the world of the cake decor in a hands-on environment during four-week series starting Tuesday, March 14. Class 1 - Basics of frostings - how to make buttercream and how to torte, ...