You may think sheet cakes are basic, but we consulted cake experts, and they gave us the best ways to spruce up sheet cakes using decorating techniques.

Five simple steps for how to cover your cake in marzipan and royal icing. Watch the technique videos for more information and see the recipe tips (below) for how to create the simple Christmas ...

With only five ingredients this basic cake recipe just needs your favourite icing and you're sorted ... be of a dropping consistency (see recipe tips); if it is not, stir in a little milk.

Beneath that dowdy exterior was a refined crumb, lighter than butter cake, more tender than spongecake. It was covered with a brown sugar frosting that managed to be both brittle and candylike at ...

Divide and color the batter, evenly divide the cake batter into six bowls. Add a few drops of different food coloring to each ...