In this gumpaste acorn tutorial you'll learn how to make an quick and easy addition to your fall sugar flower arrangement that lends a wonderfully authentic look to your cake design. Pair them with some oak leaves from our gumpaste fall leaves tutorial and you have a completed spray for you cake. Materials: Gumpaste in two shades - a darker brown and a lighter brown 22 or 24-guage green or brown wires cut into quarters Needle-nosed pliers Bone tone Sugarcraft tweezers or ... Read More...
Gumpaste Fall Leaves Tutorial for Autumn Cake Decorating
Our gumpaste fall leaves tutorial this week shows you how to apply and blend a range dust colors to celebrate the glorious kaleidoscope of color that the autumn season brings - from lime greens to yellows to blazing orange and russet red. Unusually for leaves, we don't actually start out with green gumpaste - rather we start with a light beige tone. If you start with green as your base color, the leaves won't take the yellow, orange and red dust colors that we apply later. Oak leaves and ... Read More...
Gumpaste Cherry Blossom Tutorial
Our gumpaste cherry blossom tutorial this week is the beautiful double flowering cherry. Cherry blossoms also come in single blossom varieties (which you'll also learn to create) but the double blossom has an extra layer of fluffy pink prettiness which we couldn't resist. Cherry blossoms come in a variety of colors - candy pink, shell pink, cream and white. We've chosen the shell pink variety for this tutorial. The cherry tree is unusual in that the flowers appear before the ... Read More...
Number Cake Tutorial/Cream Tart Recipe by Mich Turner
Today’s number cake tutorial/cream tart recipe is extracted from baking supremo, Mich Turner’s latest book – Everyday Bakes to Showstopper Cakes. This treasure trove of a book does exactly as its title says: it turns classic everyday recipes into wow centrepieces by decorating them with fabulous finishing touches. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced baker, Mich’s newest offering will take your baking to the next level and make your cakes and bakes truly Instagram ... Read More...