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Cream cheese: To ensure the lightest, creamiest frosting, be sure to bring the cream cheese to room temperature before creaming it together with the mascarpone.

Her stunning birthday cake. The elegant sheet cake was a visual treat - topped with a smooth butter-yellow frosting and the words "Happy Birthday Sofia" delicately piped in chocolate sauce.

Costco's new Kirkland Signature "Peaches and Cream Bar Cake" features vanilla cake with peach compote and whipped cream, earning rave reviews for its nice balance of sweetness and tang.

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The pops feature birthday cake ice cream sandwiched between two vanilla cookies dipped in frosting and coated in crunchy rainbow sprinkles.

The flavor is also slightly unique: Birthday Cake definitely has an emphasis on vanilla notes, while Pink Sugar reads a tad more candy-like.

Add the mascarpone cheese, cold heavy whipping cream, honey, vanilla paste (or vanilla extract), and salt to the bowl of a stand mixer with the whisk attachment.

Mia Starr, founder of Sweet Spot Workshop, shares advice on how to decorate a cake, from using sprinkles and florals to learning piping techniques to basic fundamentals.

While frosting wasn’t my priority during judging — I know I prefer whipped cream or cream cheese frosting — I did take note of whether any of these basic buttercreams was better than another.

Chantilly cake was popularized by Whole Foods but has a long history in the South. It features whipped cream and fresh fruit layers. Gentilly cake is a newer New Orleans variation.