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When you're a beginning cake decorator, you're probably going to be confused by all of the things that people say you "have to have" to decorate cakes. Most of those things are totally unnecessary,...

I have a couple of recipes where the cake is ALWAYS overflowing in the oven over the sides of the cake pans. Red velvet is the worst offender, but depending on how full I fill the pans it can happen...

When you're making any type of meringue buttercream, whether it's Swiss, French, or Italian meringue, you need to equalize the temperatures between the hot sugar syrup and the cold butter. If you...

When you hear people talk about "fondant" in cake decorating, you might not realize that there are multiple types of fondant. Some are for covering cakes, and some are for pouring over desserts...