You can turn a circle into a duck and a rectangle into a dog, a dinosaur or a train. And you don’t even have to be a magician to do it.The secret is in the way you cut up the original shape and ...

I’m sharing my favorite shortcut for a heart-shaped cake—no need for fancy pans or carving skills! All you need are round and square pans that are the same size. I show you how to cut and assemble the ...

Bake a cake in a 13-by-9-by-2-inch pan; cool and remove from pan. (The cake will be easier to handle if you refrigerate it for a while before cutting.) Cut off a 1-inch strip from the short side ...

Once all halves have been cut, you can either assemble the halves to make one, two-layer cake, or two single-layer butterfly cakes. Read more: 11 Store-Bought Chocolate Cakes, Ranked Worst To Best ...

But Bellos discovered a Dec. 20, 1906, letter to the editor in Nature magazine in which British eugenics pioneer (and half-cousin of Charles Darwin) Francis Galton proposed a method for “cutting ...

Our test cook used special cake pans to bake this whimsical little sheep, and gave him jelly beans for a face and coconut icing for wool. Here is the raw batter in two pans, one shaped like a lamb ...