This recipe makes enough for a 18cm/7in round cake or a thin covering ... flat and smooth using a clean ruler or icing spreader. Leave to dry before decorating with Christmas ornaments.

Once you learn how to decorate a cake, you'll be whipping up celebratory treats in no time. Use all of our favorite tips and tricks to create a professional layered cake right at home.

Ready-made icing can ... first freeze the cake, unwrapped; once frozen, cover it in cling film and aluminium foil and return to the freezer. Piping bags are useful for decorating cakes with ...

W hen I was first getting into cake decorating, recipes like this bunny cake were exactly what I was most drawn to. I loved a ...

This recipe is for a classic vanilla white cake, and it uses soured milk or buttermilk to keep it moist. Stick with the ...

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Katie Fortune frosts and adorns her cake during an introductory class on decorating cakes. Fortune, who said she typically buys her cakes at Whole Foods Market, was smearing icing onto a cake that ...

Drizzle or spread the icing over the cake. Add colored sugar. Tip: Decorating a King Cake neatly can be tricky and messy. I use a pastry brush to apply icing to one section, then sprinkle with ...