Let’s all be honest: When we reach for a slice of cake, we’re in it for the frosting more than anything else. There’s nothing that can transform a cake from just OK to practically heavenly like a ...

So the next time someone in your life requests a dessert, consider making our Fresh Raspberry-Cream Cheese Frosting part of ...

Chocolate Cupcakes & Peanut Butter Icing is a favorite recipe from Ina Garten, who credits Kathleen King of Tate’s Bake Shop in Southampton, N.Y. ( Kye R. Lee - Staff Photographer) This recipe is ...

This homemade butterscotch frosting is rich, smooth, and made with dark brown sugar, butter, and cream. It comes together in ...

Who doesn’t love a tasty cupcake? And not the kind you get from a bakery or grocery store. The kind with homemade buttercream frosting! It’s light and airy rather than thick and heavy. This classic ...

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 ...

Our resident baking savant and senior associate food editor Claire Saffitz’s idea of a good time involves whipping up homemade bagels on the fly. There’s no one else we trust more to develop the ...

These honey-scented cupcakes are old-fashioned, and are denser than normal cupcakes. They are adorable for a shower or Spring treat. Spring is in the air! I love these little honey-scented cupcakes.

These bakes for cake lovers are made for anyone who also wants cupcakes in the mix. Big cakes, small cakes, it’s all about ...

Cupcakes may not be at the height of dessert trendiness anymore (read: now you have to wait in long lines for other treats), but they will always be beloved. They’re nostalgic, miniature, and can be ...

Is there a more widely, vocally despised food than the prissy, expensive, full-of-itself gourmet cupcake? Maybe. Maybe liver, or mushy green beans, or rotten bananas. Maybe a second-hand sandwich long ...