While it's ultimately the taste that matters, it's always rewarding to make bakery-worthy confections at home. On that note, here's how to choose between buttercream and royal icing for your next cake ...

Buttercream frosting is the cornerstone of any great cake or cupcake. Its velvety smooth texture and rich flavor can ele ...

There's an easy solution for when the icing you're trying to pipe onto your cake gets too stiff, and you don't even need to ...

French-style buttercream is made in the same way, but with the addition of egg yolks, which produce a much richer icing. If the mixture splits or curdle instead of emulsifying, stick the bowl in ...

Make sure your cake is cold before adding buttercream icing. Any residual heat will melt the butter in your icing and make it difficult to work with or even melt completely and slip off your cake.

Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Prepare two nine-inch cake pans by coating them with baking spray, or buttering and lightly ...

Sift flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder into a large bowl, then whisk together before incorporating the wet mixture ...

This recipe makes a single-layer cake with buttercream icing. You could also serve it with cream and fruit, or simply with icing sugar.

This impressive-looking cake comes together in 20 minutes and zero cake decorating experience ... Here's an easy vanilla cake with buttercream icing, which you can use as the base.

This simple pumpkin sheet cake can feed a crowd of ghosts and goblins so it's perfect for your Halloween party. Give it some extra decoration by topping the frosting with black and orange sprinkles.