Cakes
Cinnamon roll cake, hot fudge cake, and other bakes bring different crumb textures and finishes to this collection. Browse cakes for slicing, layering, or serving warm with a suitable accompaniment.
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Cake Fillings
Chocolate peanut butter mousse, strawberry cream, and apricot preparations offer different cake fillings. Choose a component for its flavor and texture, considering how it will sit between or inside the baked layers.
Cupcakes
Chocolate-chile cupcakes and green chile cornbread cupcakes offer distinctive flavors in an individual bake. These small cakes provide room for fillings and frostings to change the finished serving.
Frosting & Icing
Cream cheese icing, maple glaze, and other finishes bring sweetness and texture to a bake. These frostings and icings offer options to spread, pipe, or pour as the recipe directs.
In this collection
Grandbaby Cakes’ Strawberry Cupcakes
Forget the strawberry cake made with cake mix! These homemade completely scratch strawberry cupcakes are a classic done right and delicious! Ingredients For the Cupcakes: 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar…
Grandbaby Cakes’ American Buttercream Frosting
This American Buttercream Frosting Recipe is fluffy, airy and light, sweet and whipped to serious perfection! You can use it on any cake, cookie or cupcake recipe because…
Grandbaby Cakes’ Vanilla Cupcakes
The texture of these cupcakes was incredible. They were impossibly moist and dense in the most enjoyable way. They had the texture of pound cake but were still somehow…
Cupcake Project’s Best Vanilla Cupcakes
All of the taste-testers agreed these were, hands-down, the very best cupcakes of the bunch. Mixing the softened butter directly into the dry ingredients (a technique called the reverse creaming…
Cupcake Project’s Best Chocolate Cupcakes
These are, hands-down, the best chocolate cupcakes I’ve ever made. Biting into one of them was a dream: They’re airy, moist, and have more chocolate flavor than any…
Dark Chocolate Cupcakes
These dark chocolate cupcakes are so moist and fudgy, and the dark chocolate ganache frosting is unbelievably rich and creamy, it’s like eating a chocolate cloud! Ingredients 2…
How to Make Royal Icing with Meringue Powder
Using only three ingredients, this royal icing recipe is great for decorating cookies, gingerbread houses and piping flowers. It dries hard, with a shiny smear-proof finish, and is…
Royal Icing and Natural Food Colorings
I use this recipe to frost sugar cookies for the holidays. I’ve included a bunch of natural food coloring variations at the bottom to make colors. — Erin…
White Wedding Cupcakes
Easy white wedding cupcakes recipe from scratch with white buttercream frosting. These soft and moist white cupcakes are decorated to look like buttercream flowers, using decorating tips. Ingredients…
Chocolate Ermine Buttercream
I used to call this “pudding buttercream” before I knew it’s true name: ermine. This technique involves preparing a simple pudding-style custard base, then whipping butter into it…
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