Sometimes the shortest path between making cake and eating it is opening a can of ready-made frosting. Here are easy upgrades to make it taste better.

Old Fashioned Red Velvet Cake recipe is moist and fluffy. It's frosted with classic Ermine frosting and gets its red color from beets which is how this classic cake was originally made.

Learn how to make the Perfect Cream Cheese Frosting for frosting cakes, cupcakes, and cookies. Recipe includes instructions for both vanilla as well as chocolate cream cheese frosting. ✅Ingredients • ...

Cake with red and pink flowers made using the back of a spoon. - Samantha Wesoloski / 500px/Getty You don't need a fancy instrument to decorate cakes and cupcakes with elegant, handmade icing petals.

Food blogger Brooke Edwards of Frost Me Up showcased this out-of-the-box technique that can make a cake's icing appear so smooth that it will look like it's been covered in fondant by a professional.

hand taking a piece of a sliced cake cooling on a wire rack - Dian Oktaviani/Shutterstock Cake decorating is not for the impatient. Even if you don't plan anything more than a simple coating of ...