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.

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.

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A classic vanilla bundt cake topped with smooth white icing drizzled evenly over the surface, adding a touch of sweetness to every slice. Main ingredients: all-purpose flour, eggs, sugar, butter, milk ...

Cake pops are a hand-held dessert made from cake, frosting, and a candy or chocolate coating. The key to great cake pops is finding the ideal ratio of cake to frosting. You can make cake pops ahead of ...

Solve the sweet dilemma of how to top cakes, cookies, doughnuts, and muffins. Stacey Ballis is a novelist, cookbook author, and food writer with 20 years of experience. She has authored a cookbook ...