The Barefoot Contessa prepared her famous Beatty’s chocolate cake to show how she tackles this issue. “If you have a cake plate, you don’t wanna get the icing on the plate,” she says in the video. “So ...

How do professional pastry chefs make it look so easy? They layer cakes with smooth icing, and cupcakes with perfect mounds of frosting, and there's not a crumb in sight. Sure, they’ve got culinary ...