Whether you're an aspiring baker or looking for inspiration for your own birthday cake, these must-see decorating ideas give ...

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Baked in a 13- x 9-inch cake pan, the sheet cake serves a crowd and is just as good if made a few days ahead. The lemon ermine frosting, luscious and buttery, can be tinted any color you wish.

The best frosting for decorating a cake is the one that tastes good, looks good, and maneuvers well for you. There are many types of buttercream frosting with different flavors and textures.

Make the cake: Grease an 8-inch square or 9-inch round cake pan with oil. Put an oven rack in the center position and heat the oven to 350 degrees.

Cake decorating isn't as easy as pie — but it is lots of fun As part of a new series, “Your Next New Skill,” Chicago Sun-Times reporter Stefano Esposito took a basic cake decorating class to ...

Gentler and more forgiving than royal icing, the brittle gloss associated with conventional British cake stylings, fondant was commercialized in the early 1960s as a premade ready-to-roll frosting ...

Sometimes looks really are what counts—like with the gloriously smooth fondant exterior of a triple-tier cake, for example. Perfect your frosting technique in one of these cake-decorating ...