Sometimes the shortest path between making cake and eating it is opening a can of ready-made frosting. Here are easy upgrades to make it taste better.

Nailing the icing on a cake is always more difficult than it seems. Here's 10 tips from a baking expert to make decorating ...

Like a fancy Fig Newton, this cake balances honey-sweetened jammy figs with toasty, bitter rye flour in a simple two-layer cake covered in a thin layer of brown butter frosting. Some of the jam — ...

Typically, a cake would not be my ideal sweet treat for the week, but when it is your roommates’ birthday and you are crowned the baker of the apartment, duty calls. When scheming up her ideal perfect ...

Q: My sister insists you need to refrigerate a cake made with buttercream frosting (just the simple type with powdered sugar, butter and a splash of milk) because it contains butter. Our mother never ...

Buttercream is delicious and can be used to decorate cakes and cupcakes. Here's a super simple recipe, whipped up in just a few minutes. Buttercream is a simple cake topping made with butter and icing ...

Preheat oven to 325°F. Combine milk, orange zest, and orange blossom water in a small bowl. Split vanilla bean half in half lengthwise, and scrape vanilla seeds into milk mixture; stir to combine. Add ...

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After letting the cake chill in the freezer and the ganache to set, the buttercream frosting will spread quickly over the top ...