Cakes, Baking, Crafts, Creativity.

Lemon curd is a delicious addition to tarts, icing, and baked goods. If you make a lot of meringue-based buttercreams, or even a lot of white cakes, you’ll eventually have a day that you have a lot...

This pumpkin cake is totally fat-free because I developed the recipe for a specific customer. Fat-free cake is a big challenge, but I once had a client who had gone through liver failure, and she...

Oven hot spots are one of many, many things that can ruin a cake. I recently got an email from a reader asking for ideas about why her cupcakes didn't bake the way they should have. Some of...

The question of putting food coloring in cakes and icings has been around for a long time, but it's more of a concern now because of food sensitivities and generally wanting to avoid...

Strawberry fillings in a cake can be a sure recipe for disaster. If you're trying to make a homemade strawberry cake with fresh strawberries and you want to fill it with fresh strawberries too, you...

I had a bunch of fancy cookies to decorate for wedding favors, and I was looking for a way to do them quickly and without having to pipe as much (since that kills my hands.) Using candy clay is a...