Cake artist Noel Mendez designs elaborate, abstract cakes — tall creations with textures and lively colors, sparkling from glitter or gold leaves. Flamboyant ribbons made with edible wafer paper often ...

If you have baked more than one cake, you get to a point where you realize you want your cakes to look better. This is not a judgment—I have made lopsided cakes and flat cakes and chocolate cakes that ...

How do professional pastry chefs make it look so easy? They layer cakes with smooth icing, and cupcakes with perfect mounds of frosting, and there's not a crumb in sight. Sure, they’ve got culinary ...