How to Decorate a Birthday Cake with Buttercream

In this tutorial, learn how to use a pencil design transfer technique to emblazon the Cullen Crest on your Twilight cake. This unique cake is shaped like a chess piece and is perfect for celebrating the brand new movie! So, why not host a pre-movie party and serve this delicio ...more

Any day will feel like your birthday when you treat yourself to this tasty dessert! Layers of corn bread or pound cake and Blue Bunny Birthday Party Ice Cream make up a miniature cake that's frosted with whipped cream, decorated with drizzled chocolate sauce and garnished with ...more

Crafting diamonds out of sugar? Don't worry, it's not nearly as hard as turning lead into gold. At least the process is simple when we're talking about sugar diamonds. Take a gander at this cake decorating video to learn how to make poured sugar diamonds that'll sparkle on an ...more

Did your little boy or girl see "How To Train Your Dragon" and totally fall in love with the the cool graphics and awesome - and, as it turns out, friendly - dragons? Then what better cake to bake for them on their birthday than a "How to Train Your Dragon" cake? Take a look a ...more

And you thought decorating the cake was hard. Once the last ruffle of icing is piped on and you've crowned your creation with a pretty fondant flower, it's time to bring it to where it needs to go, whether that's a birthday party or simply back home to devour. How do you tran ...more

The video is a demonstration of how to decorate a cake for a baby shower decorated to look like a baby bib. For the cake recipe, use a cake mix and add 2 teaspoons of freshly grated orange zest, 1 cup orange juice, 4 eggs and 2 tablespoons vegetable oil and bake it the normal ...more

We don't know how you feel about your little girl eating her favorite princess for her birthday, but we suppose this Cinderella cake is too cute to pass up...and to nom on. Take a look at this cake decorating tutorial to see how to ice the dress of a Cinderella cake. In this ...more

We didn't think it could get any better than cupcakes laden with buttercream icing until we saw these dark chocolate ganache-dipped cupcakes. Dripping in rich, velvety layers of ganache, these cupcakes are then topped with iced on Christmas shapes like trees and snowflakes for ...more

In this video, we learn how to make a VW beetle cake with buttercream. First, you will need to apply the buttercream icing onto the top of your cake and the sides. After this, you will pile on the other cakes to this with more icing inside of each layer. Then, you will start t ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to make a birthday cake in the shape of a purse. First, bake two round cakes and place them in the fridge. After this, cut off the edge of both the cakes that are the same size. Then, take some frosting and spread it onto the cake to adhere both ...more

Pretty cookies can't exist without icing. Sure, plain, undecorated cookies are nice and taste great, but adding even just that one coat of royal icing takes the experience from tasty to sugar fantasy. Send your cookies out with a nice set of new clothes by watching this cake ...more

Everything is so much cuter - and tastier - in edible form. Take dogs, for instance. Whether you miniaturize them to top a cupcake or make them out of buttercream to top your cake, they becomes instruments of decoration and pleasure once they get adapted to cakes. Watch this ...more

Betty teaches us how to make birthday cupcakes in this tutorial. You will need: a box of chocolate cake mix, chocolate frosting with sprinkles, vegetable oil, eggs, and water to make these. First, mix your dry and wet ingredients together in a large mixing bowl. Next, line a c ...more

In this video cake decorating tutorial, the instructors take you through the steps of learning how to cover a cake with rolled fondant. To follow these directions, you will need a cake made with whole eggs (as that affects the consistency), buttercream icing, piping gel, a one ...more

Looking for a great buttercream recipe? Then you have come to right place. Watch this how to video to learn how simple it is to whip up some butter cream to decorate your cakes with. The ingredients for this recipe are: 22 tbs salted butter, softened (about 3 sticks) 2/3 cups ...more

In order to make a birthday card with a pop-out cover cake, you will need the following: card stock, a craft knife, ribbon, double sided tape, decorative sheet, a ruler, stickers, and a pen or a pencil. Cut the card stock into strips: 3 cm and 2 cm 1.5 cm. Repeat with the oth ...more

The first thing that should be done when icing a cake with buttercream frosting is to wrap the cake in plastic wrap and chill it in the freezer. This will ensure that when you trim the top of the cake there will not be as many crumbs. After triming the top of the cake to make ...more

In order to make a Robot Cake, you will need the following: a 13 x 9” cake. Remove the top layer of the cake, by cutting it off evenly. Next cut off a 3” strip from the top and the bottom of the cake. Cut away 1/3 of one of the strips. Place your cakes on your serving pla ...more

This is a video that demonstrates how to make a homemade birthday cake. He uses a springform pan and brushes the entire inside with butter and dusts it with flour. He mixes flour and corn flour and puts them through a sieve. Using a mixer, he mixes eggs and then adds sugar, wh ...more

A rose is a rose is a cake. With this delectable how-to, you'll learn how to decorate a cake with arresting rose flowers and elegant scrollwork. To follow along, you'll need the following tools: Flower Nail No. 7 Tip: 2 Tip: 5 Tip: 12 Tip: 104 Tip: 352 8 x 3 in. Round Pan Fa ...more

In order to decorate your cake you will need to create a cone. This cone is easy to make and will help you pipe designs onto cakes more easily. Check out this tutorial and learn how to create a cone for use with your buttercream.

Cake decorating is just another way for an artist to represent the kind of talent and vision they possess. A cake is not just a beautiful, sweet little snack, but a canvas in which an artist can be as creative as they can with using edible tools. This video tutorial shows you ...more

Here is quick recipe for a sponge birthday cake. Watch out though, don't make the mistake our hosts made. They used two tablespoons of butter instead of two teaspoons. If you follow the along with this how to video, minus the tablespoon of butter, you are sure to make a delici ...more

Butter cream frosting isn’t only delicious but allows for great decorating possibilities. It can be a little difficult to create smooth surface to of the frosting if bubbles have created pock marks when laid, but as the video demonstrates you can use a smoothing tool to get th ...more