Use this simple buttercream icing recipe to decorate your birthday cakes, cupcakes and sandwich biscuits. Try adding a little food colouring gel for a splash of colour to your butter icing.

For the final technical challenge Mary Berry asked the bakers to make this simple sponge with homemade jam and buttercream – without a recipe. We won't be so unkind. Mary's perfect Victoria ...

How To Cake It Yolanda Gampp shows how to bake pizza out of vanilla cake with sweet candy toppings - with creamy raspberry buttercream sauce, toasted fondant crust, Brylee melted modelling chocolate ...

Each of these rolls are made of sweet chocolate jelly roll sponge cake and iced with ginger jam infused buttercream and topped with candy such as coconut jelly beans, watermelon gummies ...