Secret recipes from restaurants

This year, Latoola got inspired a week after Thanksgiving in her quest to avoid wasteful tossing of food into the trash bound for a landfill instead of for someone’s palate. So, she created caakies – a combination of an individual cake and a cookie – made from the leftover pies.

Latoola’s annual Thanksgiving dinner must include apple, pumpkin, and pecan pies

Beautiful cakes are not just for big bucks on extra-special occasions. You can learn easy cake decorating ideas that you can do yourself to make even an ordinary boxed cake mix look extraordinary. With a few simple tools and techniques and the easy cake decorating ideas in this article, you’ll be able to make a beautiful cake yourself at home.