Here are a few essential tips that we practice every single time we bake and decorate a layered cake. Strange as it sounds, the crumb coat is added to prevent a mess, not make one. A crumb coat is ...

This cake has all the usual suspects. For dry ingredients, you need: all-purpose flour, sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, kosher salt and espresso powder. For the wet ...

So don’t ask me why my kids still insist I make their birthday cakes. For some guidance, I headed off to Wilton Sweet Studio in Naperville for a “basics” vintage cake-decorating class.

Parties with more than two people need to make additional reservations. Classes included bottomless refreshments. In addition to a professional decorating lesson and the cake itself, we were ...

Owners of a family-run cake supplies shop are hoping to help customers make 'cherished memories' going into their 16th year of business in Halstead.

Sugary, sweet scents filled the kitchen of the Menard Center last week as homeschool students and their parents put their best cake forward in the 2nd annual Student and Parent ...