This unique tree spirit cake, taken from Helena Garcia's The Wicked Baker, is perfect centrepiece for your family Halloween party this year. It's just one of many weird and wonderful creations in Helena's imaginative new book that is a must for Halloween fanatics and bakers alike. Helena explains the inspiration behind the cake: "Turn this Scandinavian classic holiday bake - the yule log - into a dark fairy tale. Although a yule log is based on a rolled chocolate sponge, I’m stacking this ... 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. 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 Sugarcraft tweezers or ... 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...
Gumpaste/Fondant Pumpkin Tutorial
This gumpaste/fondant pumpkin tutorial works just as well with modelling chocolate or marzipan for a better tasting pumpkin or even rice krispies treats softened in the microwave and then shaped into a ball and covered in orange fondant. Materials: Orange fondant with CMC/Tylose powder added (1 teaspoon per 500g) to firm it up Dresden tool Bone tool or small ball tool Sugarcraft tweezer Edible glue Dust colors: orange, red, beige and brown Paintbrush Edible glaze ... Read More...