Ree Drummond’s royal icing is a must-have when it comes to holiday baking. The celebrity chef uses it to decorate everything from Pioneer Woman gingerbread cookies to classic sugar cookies. Best of ...

Martha demonstrates how to prepare royal icing using fresh eggs, sifted confectioners’ sugar, lemon juice, and food coloring.

Every year as the holidays approach, I eagerly anticipate holiday baking and decorating sugar cookies. And every year, they don’t exactly turn out as planned. That’s because decorating cookies is a ...

Is it really possible to enjoy any sort of celebration without a cake? Unless you're someone who detests the thought of sweet treats, your answer to this question has got to be a big no. This ...

Buttery and lightly sweet, these butter cookies have a crisp and crumbly shortbread texture. One cut out and baked, they're ...

Now that you know how to bake a cake worthy of decorating, the next step is to decorate it. I remember my first time decorating a two-layered cake. It was for my mother’s birthday, I was 12 years old, ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. I am a decidedly mediocre baker and an even ...

America's Test Kitchen compiled 250 recipes and dozens and dozens of detailed baking tips in a new cookbook, "The Perfect Cookie: Your Ultimate Guide to Foolproof Cookies, Brownies & Bars" (2017, ...

Holiday baking gets hectic fast. These 17 cookie recipes give you time to test chocolate classics, pumpkin-spiced batches, ...

A cake topped with caramel sauce and berries on a plate - Anamomarques/Getty Images Is it really possible to enjoy any sort of celebration without a cake? Unless you're someone who detests the thought ...