Our beautiful cake calligraphy tutorial this week is from the much anticipated first book by Australia's doyenne of cake decorating, Faye Cahill. Cake Calligraphy Tutorial - Part A: Transferring a pattern Before you can start to decorate, you’ll need to transfer your design onto a fondant-covered cake. Use a fine fabric such as chiffon or netting and an edible pen to trace the design onto the cake before adding colour and embellishment. Trace your design onto a piece of fine fabric using ... Read More...
Wildflower Wedding Cake Tutorial
This exquisite wildflower wedding cake tutorial by Juliet Sear is from her fabulous new book, Botanical Baking (© David & Charles Publishing. Published with permission). Juliet has been one of the UK's leading sugar artists for well over a decade and her book perfectly captures the growing trend in natural style baking and cake decorating. It features so many unique and creative cake decorating projects using garden flowers and a variety of fruits, that are refreshingly quick and ... Read More...
Gumpaste Fluffy Peony Tutorial
This gumpaste fluffy peony tutorial shows you how to make a "wow" flower to adorn a wedding cake or special occasion cake. It's over 6 inches wide so it's a true statement flower but you can adjust this downwards if you wish. To make the 6-inch flower we used a 2-inch rose petal cutter for the inner petals and then 2 1/2 inch and 3 inch petal cutters (or round cutters) for the outer petals. You can size down down the flower by using a smaller cutter for the inner petals, as long at the outer ... Read More...
Nutella® Lava Cookies
From 101 Greatest Cookies on the Planet by Erin Mylroie, this recipe for a chocolate lava cookie with a semiliquid center of warm Nutella just had to be included on that list - hands down - it's dynamite! Makes 12 cookies Nutella® Lava Cookies: Ingredients 11⁄2 cups (387 g) chocolate hazelnut spread, divided (I recommend Nutella) 1⁄2 cup (114 g) unsalted butter, softened 1⁄2 cup (110 g) brown sugar, packed 1⁄3 cup (66 g) granulated sugar 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla extract ... Read More...