The Barefoot Contessa prepared her famous Beatty’s chocolate cake to show how she tackles this issue. “If you have a cake plate, you don’t wanna get the icing on the plate,” she says in the video. “So ...

Those tall and lofty layer cakes might seem like a mountain that you can never climb, an impossible challenge best left to pastry professionals. But frosting a layer cake with buttercream doesn't have ...

Take this advice from the Barefoot Contessa herself and you'll be frosting cakes like a pro in no time. Ina Garten has taught her fans everything from spatchcocking a chicken to mixing the perfect ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Think of baking a layer cake like a construction job. The cake layers are the wood, the foundation of the project; the icing is ...

If you have successfully completed the oven portion of a baking project — layers risen, toothpicks more or less bare — you are mostly out of the woods and well on your way to the brighter plains of ...

Forget how to cut a cake to ensure all the little gremlins (read: children) get the same-sized piece of cake. Apparently, our biggest worry when it comes to kids’ birthday parties is how to slice the ...

“If you have a cake plate, you don’t wanna get the icing on the plate,” she says in the video. “So, what I do is I take pieces of parchment or wax paper and put it down on the plate…then put the first ...