Doreen McCallister is cake decorator to the NPR stars. McCallister, an editor at Morning Edition, has baked delicious cakes for NPR's staff and family members for 18 years. She's also a certified ...

Baking a cake can sometimes feel like you're on an episode of "Nailed It" — no matter how hard you try to make a stunning creation, it always seems to fall short of the beautiful cakes you see in ...

Get the foundations right. For a super smooth surface, ready to decorate or pipe on, start with a polished crumb coat and a fab final coat: Trim your cakes to level. Add a spoonful of buttercream (see ...

I'm decorating a festive mini tray cake to look just like a Christmas present, using bright holiday colors, a piped buttercream 'ribbon,' sprinkles, edible glitter, and a handmade fondant bow. In this ...

Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. Despite the fact that I’m a cooking editor, I don’t have much experience with cake decorating. I bake a lot, sure, ...

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