Actual roses wither and die, but rose-topped cupcakes last for ... a solid two to three minutes. That's roughly the time you'll need to Instagram them, adjust the saturation, keep your hashtag game ...

Cake with red and pink flowers made using the back of a spoon. - Samantha Wesoloski / 500px/Getty You don't need a fancy instrument to decorate cakes and cupcakes with elegant, handmade icing petals.

And decorate it, too. Grams demonstrates DIY roses. Grandmas are experts at everything — or so a cashier at the grocery store told me yesterday. And it’s probably true. For example, it wasn’t long ...

This is the 100th installment of Brow Beat’s recipe series. (I am counting Crabby Snacks and Homemades as a single recipe, because what is a homemade without a crabby snack, or a crabby snack without ...