To prevent the stand or platter from getting smudged with icing, cover the border of the cake platter with 2- to 3-inch-wide strips of waxed or parchment paper before you set the first layer upon it.

Versatile And Unfussy, Broiled Icing Deserves A Comeback The approach of setting an iced cake under a broiler was popular in your grandmother's day — but some form of basic iced cakes date back ...

Flattened out from a pliable brick, the icing resembles pie dough as it’s held aloft before being draped, in one fraught move, over a bare cake. The next step is to buff the icing until it’s ...