Once you learn how to decorate a cake, you'll be whipping up celebratory treats in no time. Use all of our favorite tips and tricks to create a professional layered cake right at home.

Using her preferred all-in-one method, Mary's easiest ever chocolate cake recipe is simply filled with cream and jam. This is a light and airy chocolate cake for those who don't like it too rich.

Sun-Times staff reporter Stefano Esposito tries his hand at cake decorating during a class at Wilton Sweet Studio in Naperville. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share I am British (on my mum’s ...

The easiest way to get a smooth finish is to apply a fairly thick layer of fondant over marzipan. You don’t have to use marzipan (brush the cake with sieved and warmed apricot jam instead), but ...

Aside from only four core ingredients, Martha Stewart's version of flourless chocolate cake works well because it doesn’t contain any complicated steps, special tools or hard-to-find ingredients.