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Quick & Easy Gumpaste Ranuncula Tutorial

Ranuncula are one the most beautiful flowers in nature and despite their intricate look are surprisingly easy to recreate in gumpaste.  For this sugar flower, you don’t need a special cutter. A single circle cutter (1.5 inch/4cm) makes all the petals for this gumpaste ranuncua. I’ve also cut out any veining because I find it a wasted effort – the veining tends to be lost in the process of shaping the petals and attaching them to the center.   Also, I’ve made this flower ... Read More...

Stamped Cake Tutorial by Erin Gardner

As readers of Cake Geek will know, we're huge fans of Erin Gardner and The Wild Orchid Baking Company so we were super excited when a copy of Erin's book, Great Cake Decorating arrived on our desk. Our biggest problem was trying to choose which of the 30 cakes to share with you - there were lots of new techniques and brilliant tips but we eventually settled on Erin's hand-stamped floral "Craft Cake" above. Stamped cake designs and illustrated sugar plaques are two techniques we haven't tried ... Read More...

Gumpaste Magnolia Tutorial – Quick & Easy Sugar Flower Tutorials

One of the great things about the gumpaste magnolia is that it’s very quick and easy to make as you’ll see in this tutorial. And yet it is a spectacularly showy flower for cake decorating due to its size and the combination of its pristine white petals and its beautiful and detailed yellow/gold centre. There are other varieties of magnolia which are just as popular, especially the pink magnolia which has narrower petals. Materials 3 x 18-guage wires taped ... Read More...

Crochet Lace Cake Tutorial

Valeri Valeriano and Christina Ong share with us their Crochet Lace Cake Tutorial this week from their book, The Contemporary Buttercream Bible. No one has taken the world of cake decorating by storm quite the way Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes girls have and their book is a masterpiece in cake design innovation, oozing with ideas, concepts, textures and brand new techniques in the art of buttercream cake decorating. Beginner decorators have been traditionally been wary of decorating with ... Read More...