"We have no bakery background or school for that matter, for us to win this was AMAZING," Linares said in an email.She later added, "The Dr. Seuss cake was both of our ideas. "His idea: stack of books ...

On a Wednesday evening in August, Celeste Perkins walked into El Atacor #1 in Cypress Park holding a towering three-tiered cake, frosted in American buttercream and airbrushed in oversaturated hues of ...

I’ve lived in Los Angeles long enough to have witnessed the scene unfold many times over. The big pale yellow box with the white-and-green band down the middle makes its first appearance. Party guests ...

The 6-inch cake that pastry chef Casey Shea delivered was a barrel-shaped whirl of salted vanilla buttercream, sequined with sliced berries and candied kumquats. On an early March menu, Shea had ...

Audrey Shulman, an avid baker who was notoriously single, brought a cake she’d baked for her best friend’s birthday to the Silver Lake bar Edendale. Then something straight out of a Hallmark rom-com ...