American

A. country where Wilton opened a school in Chicago in 1929 and taught the home cook to pipe, where Magnolia Bakery turned the cupcake loose on the West Village in 1996, where Christina Tosi opened Milk Bar in 2008, and where Duff Goldman put a Baltimore cake shop on television in 2006. We pulled together every finishing technique worth knowing — eight techniques, deep — from the bakery counters, classroom benches, and country-fair tables that keep the cake.

American sits under Decorate in the HowTo Food menu. It has 8 sections: Cake, Cookie, Plate, Table, Party, Holiday, Wedding and Dessert.