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.

This is not like a regular coffee cake; it’s denser as it’s made with the melt-and-mix method. I use a delicious coffee extract by the vanilla company Nielsen-Massey, which is available from ...

Celebrate Mardi Gras with a homemade king cake—crowned in purple, green, and gold sugar, with a lemony cream cheese filling.

Over at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering near Boston, Massachusetts, the students know what makes a worthwhile project. The AutoFrost is a robot which has one delicious purpose: frosting ...

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

I started frosting cakes a year ago, when I was six years old. I don't really remember it, but Mommy says that she started baking when I was eight months old. I would be in a baby carrier on her back ...