Cake with red and pink flowers made using the back of a spoon. - Samantha Wesoloski / 500px/Getty You don't need a fancy instrument to decorate cakes and cupcakes with elegant, handmade icing petals.

For special occasions and birthday celebrations, there’s no better dessert than a perfectly decorated layered cake. But with ...

Yep, you heard that right: a regular ol' spoon. Here, I'll explain how to us a spoon to shape the frosting on the top of a simple, single-layer cake—our Easiest Chocolate Birthday Cake is the one ...

This browser does not support the video element. Place a dab of frosting in the middle of a 9-inch cake round (or a flat plate) and then the first layer on top. This will help it stay put. This ...

Molly Yeh is a food blogger and cookbook author who has contributed numerous recipes to Food & Wine and is the host of the Food Network show Girl Meets Farm. Freezing the cake layers for at least an ...

[embed width="640" height="360"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yuzcThiPdU[/embed] When my mom named me Alice, little did she know the woman she named me after would ...