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I was having a craving for oatmeal cookies, and my daughter is vegan, so since she was home and I knew she would want some I needed to make them dairy and egg-free. The easiest thing to do when...

Fruit jam and reductions serve different purposes in baking, but they're both easy to make yourself if you want the best flavor. You make them in basically the same way, but reductions are used to...

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,...

Cake collars do a couple of things. First, they keep the cake from sticking to the pan on the sides. Second, and most importantly, they keep your cake from overflowing the pan and ending up burning...

Learning how to fix broken buttercream is an important skill that anyone who decorates cakes should learn. Buttercream can break, which is when it looks curdled or bumpy, when the temperatures of the...

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 like...