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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 ...
Are you baking a cake for your loved ones’ birthday but dreading the cake design? Keep your worries at bay, as we have some cake-decorating ideas to make you look like a baking goddess with magical ...
Yep, you heard that right: a regular ol' spoon. Here, I'll explain how to us a spoon to shape the frosting on the top of a simple, single-layer cake—our Easiest Chocolate Birthday Cake is the one ...
Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. Despite the fact that I’m a cooking editor, I don’t have much experience with cake decorating. I bake a lot, sure, ...
Birthdays for the kids come once a year, and each milestone is celebrated as much as the year before. But just like the clockwork of a birthday approaching, the dread of how you’re going to pull off a ...
Even the most fastidious pastry chef (I may or may not have two pairs of culinary tweezers, X-Acto knives, and a protractor in my kitchen drawer) can acknowledge the charm of an imperfect-looking ...
>> MANY FAMILIES WILL BE GATHERING AROUND THE KITCHEN THIS WEEK TO WHIP UP SOME TASTY TREATS. YOU CAN SPEND SOME EXTRA TIME WITH LOVED ONES WORKING TOGEERTH TO CREATE SOME FTIVEES DESSERTS. AND IF YOU ...
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 ...