We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When you're looking to top your baked goods, there's a range of icings you might use. One of the most common types is buttercream icing, which ...

Cake with red and pink flowers made using the back of a spoon. - Samantha Wesoloski / 500px/Getty You don't need a fancy instrument to decorate cakes and cupcakes with elegant, handmade icing petals.

Long snubbed by serious pastry chefs, the most malleable of icings is making a comeback. Fondant and marzipan fruit top vanilla sponge- and chocolate blackout cakes created for T by Sarah Hardy, the ...

Mastering a cake recipe shouldn’t be intimidating, yet if you’ve ever attempted a cake from scratch — or at least watched a season or two of “Bake Off” contestants sweat it out in the tent — then ...