Cake Geek Magazine

Cake Tutorials, Trends, Design & Styling

Gumpaste Moth Orchid Tutorial (Phalaenopsis Orchid)

We are delighted to feature this gumpaste moth orchid tutorial this week by multi-award winning UK cake designer, Cassie Brown from her recent book, The Kew Book of Sugar Flowers. Endorsed by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, Cassie's book encompasses over 40 tutorials featuring hyper-realistic details that serve both a beginner looking to learn from a master crafts person to a more advanced sugarcrafter looking to enhance their skills further. The book includes all the classic sugar ... Read More...

Tree Bark Cake Tutorial

This tree bark cake tutorial makes a beautiful rustic wedding cake for a woodland themed wedding. It comprises four tiers of cake (12", 10", 8" and 6" cakes) with the rustic tree bark panels covering the two of the tiers and pretty sugar flowers and foliage to complete the look. The 12" and 8" cakes were first covered in chocolate fondant but you could also simply leave them with a chocolate ganache covering, without the fondant. For the tree bark panels, we've used chocolate fondant again ... Read More...

Wildflower Wedding Cake Tutorial

This exquisite wildflower wedding cake tutorial by Juliet Sear is from her fabulous new book, Botanical Baking (© David & Charles Publishing. Published with permission). Juliet has been one of the UK's leading sugar artists for well over a decade and her book perfectly captures the growing trend in natural style baking and cake decorating. It features so many unique and creative cake decorating projects using garden flowers and a variety of fruits, that are refreshingly quick and ... Read More...

Blue Tiled Wedding Cake Decorating Tutorial by Lindy Smith

This week, Lindy Smith shares with us a beautiful blue titled wedding cake decorating tutorial  from her book, Simply Modern Wedding Cakes. Vibrant colours and contemporary designs are the hallmark of Lindy's cake decorating and her latest book is jam packed full of inspiration for the cake decorator. Lindy describes the inspiration behind this stylish new design: "Something old, something new, something borrowed… and this stylish cake is the perfect something blue! Tiled patterns and ... Read More...