Anna Gordon, founder and co-owner of The Good Batch Bakery in Brooklyn, New York, told Chowhound that you can easily upgrade a plain cake by adding flowers or piping on some additional decorations.

For this recipe you will need a large piping bag fitted with a medium closed star nozzle and a 20cm/8in springform cake tin. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4. Grease and flour a 20cm/8in ...

a piping bag fitted with a wide plain nozzle and a pastry brush. As an alternative way of decorating this cake, you can use ready-made edible cake decorations such flower shapes and gold stars ...