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Simple Solutions: How to Make a Quick Sugar Icing

This is one of those cook’s tricks we keep in our back pocket. A simple sugar icing will fancy up some scones for company or add the perfect touch to a batch of cookies. It’s so easy, you don’t ...

Recipe: Cake Love's Chocolate Butter Cake with Pastry Cream & Italian Buttercream

We received mixed reviews after sharing our thoughts on the Cake Love cookbook last week. We'd tested 5 or 6 cakes from the book with extreme success, but those who live near the bakeries were in dis...

Help Me Find Lighter Alternatives to Buttercream Frosting
Good Question

Here's a good baking question from Evan. Can you help?I made the lemon cake y'all reviewed recently, and it was delicious, but five sticks of butter on one plate is more than I can handle. Fortunately...

In Praise Of Rustic Looking Cakes

It's summer and we have better things to do than slave over decorating a cake for your next weekend get together or outdoor party. It's often easier to think about doing desserts that don't require ...

How To Frost a Cupcake

We made cupcakes this weekend for some friends (we weren't quite organized enough for cake pops), and we realized that we have a pretty standard way of frosting them. We think we picked up this method...

Recipe: Basic Cooked Buttercream Frosting

Also called mousseline buttercream, this frosting is like classic buttercream's dolled-up older sister. It requires a little more skill and finesse to pull off, but the bonus is a frosting that will h...

Look! Cute Cupcakes from Hello, Cupcake!

In our world, delicious trumps cute, especially when it's cute for cute's sake. And yet, the new book Hello, Cupcake! features such adorable and easy to make creations that we fell in love.Take those ...

Best Five: Basic Chocolate Recipes

Every cook has that small repertoire of recipes they turn to over and over again. We have a small, well-proven handful of chocolate recipes that never let us down. From no-fail chocolate cake to hom...

Tip: How to Frost Cakes Without Making a Mess

Here's a favorite tip that we used this weekend. When icing layer cakes, lay four narrow strips of wax paper on your cake plate, just under the edges of the cake. Frost the cake, which always makes ...

Recipe: D.I.Y. Whipped Chocolate Frosting

Whipped chocolate icing from a can is a delicious basic - smooth and glossy and spread thick on yellow cake or homemade graham crackers. Who doesn't love chocolate frosting? But chocolate fros...