Use this simple buttercream icing recipe to decorate your birthday cakes, cupcakes and sandwich biscuits. Try adding a little food colouring gel for a splash of colour to your butter icing. Beat the ...

Sure, you could play it safe by adding your go-to chocolate or vanilla icing to finish off your cake, but we think that your dessert deserves better. We've gathered our best buttercream frostings for ...

Traditionally whipped up using just butter and icing sugar, American buttercream has become an absolute go-to for bakers decorating cakes and cupcakes. Whilst there are numerous varieties of ...

Now, this is a scrumptious homemade buttercream recipe. It's so silky and fluffy, you could mistake it for an elegant Swiss meringue buttercream. The recipe is so simple and can be whipped up in a ...

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Cupcakes. Layer cake. Graham crackers. Sugar cookies. All of the above are totally magical, but what’s the common thread? They’re all freaking amazing when they have a perfectly light, fluffy, sugary ...

In this quick tutorial, I show how I stencil designs onto a cold buttercream cake using a Polynesian Samoan pattern. I walk through positioning the stencil, adding just a little buttercream, and ...