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    Frosting Recipes

    If you want to make the best layer cakes, you need great frosting recipes! Learn how to make thick cream cheese frosting that doesn't break down and super stable Italian meringue buttercream suitable for wedding cakes. And everybody needs a good chocolate fudge frosting recipe to make the quintessential birthday cake: a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting

    • Using a piping bag fitted with a fine, small round tip to outline and decorate cutout gingerbread cookies with royal icing.
      Royal Icing For Decorating Cutout Cookies
    • A dark chocolate cupcake with pink frosting swirl.
      Chocolate Cupcakes With Raspberry Frosting
    • Swirls of maple-flavoured whipped cream with maple flakes sprinkled on top.
      Maple Whipped Cream
    • Spreading whipped cream over pastry cream and berries in a bowl to make trifle.
      How to Make Whipped Cream
    • A glass bowl of glossy chocolate sour cream frosting.
      How to Make Chocolate Fudge Frosting
    • Thick cream cheese frosting on a layer cake, spread with an offset spatula to create vertical streaks on the surface of the frosting.
      How to Make Thick Cream Cheese Frosting for Cakes and Piping with Less Sugar
    • Smoothing frosting on a layer of cake with a mini offset spatula.
      Thick White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting Without Powdered Sugar
    • Italian meringue buttercream piped with 1M Wilton tip to make a rose cake
      How to make Italian meringue buttercream (recipe in grams and cups)
    • This Earl grey tea cake is a layer cake infused with Earl Grey tea. Earl Grey tea is used in the cake layers, in the Earl Grey frosting, and in the garnish.
      Earl Grey cake
    • chocolate cake
      Chocolate cake with coffee buttercream

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    Festive Treats

    • A piece of gingerbread cake with cream cheese frosting and lemon curd served on a dessert plate.
      Moist Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Lemon Curd
    • Nanaimo bars cut into squares and served on a marble surface.
      Nanaimo Bars
    • A round braided boule of Christmas fruit bread on a board, sliced.
      Fruit bread
    • Freshly baked mincemeat cookies served with a glass of milk.
      Mincemeat cookies
    • Transferring homemade mincemeat filling to jars to store for making mincemeat tarts.
      Homemade mincemeat
    • A plate of ginger cookies with white chocolate chips.
      Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate

    Christmas Cookies

    • A plate of fruitcake cookies ready to be served.
      Icebox Fruitcake Cookies
    • Gingerbread cookies shaped like people decorated with white royal icing.
      Cutout Gingerbread Cookies
    • shortbread cutout cookies sandwiched with strawberry jam filling
      Jam-filled shortbread cookies
    • A plate of chocolate sugar cookies and a glass of milk.
      Chocolate Sugar Cookies
    • Freshly baked molasses cookies coated in turbinado sugar on a parchment-lined sheet pan.
      Molasses Sugar Cookies
    • Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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