The small room at the back of Julbeans Coffee and Crepes was quiet at different points on Feb. 4 as eight learners concentrated on cutting and icing heart-shaped cakes. The group gathered at the ...

Like baking a cake and decorating it, writing and editing are two separate but complementary steps that must both be mastered to win the competition for your audience’s attention and affinity. I ...

Want to make your own wedding cake? Here are a few tips: * Find an inspiration. Take a look at some of the classic cake-making books and use one idea as your model. I like "Colette's Wedding Cakes" by ...

The day my 14-year old announced that she was going to make her cousin’s wedding cake was the day she changed the dynamics of our mother-daughter relationship. I’ve been a food professional for more ...

Mallory Valvano is a roaming party, and never more than when she’s piping rainbows of buttercream across sweets; you can already understand where she got the moniker Party Girl Bake Club. At the ...

When I was in the ninth grade, I was enrolled in a home economics class as part of my school curriculum. In those days, this class consisted of varied topics, and there was no option to focus solely ...

Of course, the obvious one is don’t mess with somebody else’s favorite crab cake; but less obvious is that there are many more places that have excellent crab cakes around here than I thought. Out of ...

Remind me to never play poker with Gerry Frank. He has an unbelievable poker face, or cake face in this case. Every time he takes a bite during his namesake Chocolate Layer Cake Contest at the Oregon ...

MOORHEAD — "That doesn't look that hard." Famous last words. The cakes are simply amazing — no two ways about it. But I've made a few of these impostor cakes in the past. So I thought, maybe, just ...

MOORHEAD — "That doesn't look that hard." Famous last words. The other night, my husband was marveling at the amazing "realistic" cakes taking the internet by storm. You've seen the videos. The cakes ...