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 […]
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, […]
Piping Techniques: Pearls and Beaded Garlands
A piped beaded garland is a superbly elegant wedding cake decoration and is one of the simplest piping techniques even for beginners. Having marked out the distance between each swag or scallop, as well as the drop length, it is simply a matter of piping pearl beads in a semi-circular shape to achieve that most […]
Autumn Cakes for the Fall Season
Autumn is the season of plenty and in many cultures festivals are held at this time of year to celebrate the bountiful harvest of nature’s most beautiful season. Autumn makes a wonderful time of year for a gathering, whether a wedding or a party and with the abundance of fruit in the orchards and hedgerows, […]
Vintage Banner Cake Toppers
Vintage banner cake toppers are a great way to dress up single tier cakes, especially since textured buttercream cakes are so in vogue at the moment for weddings and parties. Whether you go with a petal piped cake, buttercream ruffles or piped roses, a hand-crafted cake topper adds that extra wow factor to top off […]
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