We're all a-flutter this week at Cake Geek between feather cakes and now, birdhouse cakes! It's one of the prettiest cake trends at the moment with two super cute examples above by Sydney's Cake by Kim (left) and via Pinterest (right). UK blogger, Torie Jayne has created a tutorial for her pastel pink and blue gingerbread cake design below (made to a gluten-free receipe) which you'll find here: birdhouse cake tutorial (no longer available). The Bubble and Sweet blog have featured a ... Read More...
Vintage Hat Box Cakes
A vintage hat box cake is one of the ultimate "go-to" cake designs for lots of occasions - birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's Day cakes, engagement cakes and wedding cakes too. We have two exquisite hat box cakes above by We Want Cake UK (above left) and the much admired Cotton & Crumbs (above right). Rosalind Miller Cakes have created a beautiful vintage, yet quirky hat box wedding cake design in pretty pastels with gold accents (below left). Leading Italian cake designers Nana ... Read More...
Cake Quilling
Quilling is an ancient decorative technique dating back to the 15th century that has gained a new-found popularity with the revival of interest in crafting and the decorative arts. It was originally used to decorate ancient religious texts but it's most commonly used today in papercraft for special occasion stationery such as wedding invitations. Quilling simply involes rolling ribbons of paper into decorative shapes to create an intricate 3-D effect pattern. And as you may have guessed, any ... Read More...
Piping Techniques: Piping Drop Strings
Piping drop strings often seems like one of the most daunting cake decorating techniques for the beginner cake decorator. For years Cake Geek herself stuck to piping pearl garlands bead-by-bead in the belief that drop strings would be much too difficult. Then one day, just messing around with a piping bag and a cake dummy, discovered how easy it actually was...all those years gazing admiringly at stringwork piping and studiously avoiding it because it looked so difficult! It's a technique well ... Read More...