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...
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...
Gumpaste Acorn Tutorial
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. Gumpaste Acorn Tutorial: 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 ... 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...