For special occasions and birthday celebrations, there’s no better dessert than a perfectly decorated layered cake. But with ...

Birthdays for the kids come once a year, and each milestone is celebrated as much as the year before. But just like the clockwork of a birthday approaching, the dread of how you’re going to pull off a ...

Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. Despite the fact that I’m a cooking editor, I don’t have much experience with cake decorating. I bake a lot, sure, ...

2 cups self raising flour, ½ cup custard powder, 2 cups castor sugar, 1 cup milk, 4 eggs lightly beaten, 250g butter softened, 2 teaspoons vanilla essence Line a 20cm cake tin with baking paper.

Forget Colin (or Cuthbert) the Caterpillar – we’ve teamed up with Chris Murphy, baker to the stars, to help you make your own showstopping (and secretly quite easy) birthday cakes for the gang. These ...

1 What needs decoration? In case you want to eat the cake warm from the oven, no topping or sauce is needed. Also, cakes such as fruit cakes need not be decorated, as they look good enough otherwise.