With the peak wedding season winding down after the summer, lots of you cake decorators will have more time to try out new decorating ideas. For commercial cake decorators, cupcake bouquets have the potential to bring in an excellent additional revenue stream if marketed well. They make a great alternative to flowers as gifts for birthdays, baby showers, bridal showers and as gifts in the workplace. Instead of saying it with flowers, say it with cupcakes! A flyer drop to local workplaces ... Read More...
Neapolitan Cake – A Great Summer Chocolate Cake
If one trend has gone viral in cake decorating this year, it's the trend for neapolitan cakes. The combination of chocolate, strawberry & vanilla is a classic. Rosie Alyea of Sweetapolita fame created the gorgeous "Inside-Out Neapolitan Cake" cake pictured above. It's a very simple and very eye-catching take on the neapolitan cake, based around a rich chocolate sponge layered with chocolate, vanilla and pink/strawberry buttercream. Buttercream is piped in an "elongated shell" pattern ... Read More...
Swedish Princess Cakes & Dome Cakes
Peggy Porschen's Boutique Baking is credited with bringing the traditional Swedish Princess Cake to the fore of fashionable baking. The dome-shaped cake is a traditional special occasion cake in its native Scandinavia and got its name from originally being used as wedding standby cake. It's traditionally covered in green marzipan (if any body knows why, please let us know!) but the cake style has been re-interpreted by celebrity bakers in various different shades. Martha Stewart created a ... Read More...
How to Pipe Buttercream Ruffles & Frills
Buttercream ruffles and frills make up the final part of our buttercream piping series. The terms are used interchangeably, but here at Cake Geek we tend to call the design above buttercream "ruffles" and the designs at the bottom of the page, buttercream "frills". Whatever terms you use, both designs create a beautiful effect and are super on-trend at the moment for wedding cakes and party cakes. The two beautiful cake designs above are by Colour It Sweet (left) and by Carisa's Cakes ... Read More...