I consider myself a bit of a cake expert, and in my professional opinion this recipe for yellow cake with chocolate frosting is the best birthday cake. It’s the perfect balance of ultra-fluffy, ...

As a professional recipe developer focused on baking, I am more aware of the cost of eggs than most folks. Try making a custard tart that calls for eight egg yolks, then testing it three more times.

A soft, round yellow cake becomes the centerpiece as it’s carefully decorated with smooth frosting and delicate finishing touches. The process highlights the cake’s fluffy texture and warm golden ...

Are you baking a cake for your loved ones’ birthday but dreading the cake design? Keep your worries at bay, as we have some cake-decorating ideas to make you look like a baking goddess with magical ...

Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. Despite the fact that I’m a cooking editor, I don’t have much experience with cake decorating. I bake a lot, sure, ...

You could spend countless hours on YouTube trying to learn how to decorate a cake. And in a lot of instances, the pros in these videos use a variety of special tools like bench scrapers, offset ...