We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cupcakes are an easy-to-make, pint-sized version of the your ...

Cooking 101: How to frost a cupcake like a professional Jennifer Rao, of Around the World in 80 Cakes, demonstrates how to frost a cupcake with buttercream like a professional. If you have a houseful ...

If you can’t find mascarpone, just replace it with 8 ounces of butter. With a hand or stand mixer, beat the butter, mascarpone and heavy cream until it becomes fluffy. Add the powdered sugar 1/4 cup ...

This is the 100th installment of Brow Beat’s recipe series. (I am counting Crabby Snacks and Homemades as a single recipe, because what is a homemade without a crabby snack, or a crabby snack without ...

Heather Saffer, the Rochester-based author of "The Dollop Book of Frosting" offers a bit of wisdom in her introduction to what is clearly a highly specialized cookbook: “To unabashed frosting lovers ...

Fancy, sugary and mystical cupcakes are as much of delight to watch as they are to eat. Also known as fairy cake in England and patty cake in Australia, these little cakes originated somewhere in ...

I was very close to frosting this week's cupcakes with a pastry bag—they would have looked very pretty. But I couldn't find a tip to do it. (As a side note, BA has a helpful video on how to use a ...

Cupcakes. Layer cake. Graham crackers. Sugar cookies. All of the above are totally magical, but what’s the common thread? They’re all freaking amazing when they have a perfectly light, fluffy, sugary ...