For special occasions and birthday celebrations, there’s no better dessert than a perfectly decorated layered cake. But with so many rules and techniques, cake decorating can be challenging for ...

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, ...

This isn’t video trickery, or special icing, or CGI. This is a real cake that really does change colors when you look at it from different angles. How it works is a play on how we perceive light, and ...