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.

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.

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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 It's frosted with classic Ermine frosting and gets its red color from beets which is how this classic cake was originally made.

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Solve the sweet dilemma of how to top cakes, cookies, doughnuts, and muffins. Stacey Ballis is a novelist, cookbook author, and food writer with 20 years of experience. She has authored a cookbook ...