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Decorating your cakes, muffins and cupcakes is so easy when you learn how to pipe buttercream icing. Watch our step-by-step video to get started, plus learn 5 easy piping techniques. Using an electric ...

Ready-made icing can be bought from most supermarkets, but it is easily made at home: the core ingredient, icing sugar, is widely available. When making fat-based icings such as buttercream, use ...

After 10 weeks of twisted plaits, collapsing caramels and sunken sponges, it was fondant fancies that let them down. When the three Great British Bake Off finalists attempted the sugary, bite-size ...

Long snubbed by serious pastry chefs, the most malleable of icings is making a comeback. Fondant and marzipan fruit top vanilla sponge- and chocolate blackout cakes created for T by Sarah Hardy, the ...

Using an electric mixer, beat butter in a bowl until pale and fluffy (about 5 minutes). Gradually add icing sugar mixture and milk, beating constantly until combined. If tinting icing with food ...