Cakes with bunting are a huge design trend at the moment. Nothing says "party-time" quite like a bit of bunting so it makes a great decoration for a cake for any occasion. It works particularly well as a side design and is very easy to make: just cut triangles of coloured sugarpaste and line them up side-by-side in a garland design, or you can use your sugarcraft gun/sugar extruder to create a line of sugarpaste to hang them from. Either method is just as effective, but the first method is the ... Read More...
Royal Wedding Cake Inspiration
Royal wedding cake designer, Fiona Cairns has added a beautiful new cake design to her collection inspired by the magnificent cake she created for the wedding of Prince William & Kate Middleton. While the replica is still relatively grand at 5-tiers, it is a smaller, simpler version of the royal wedding cake retaining the same overall shape, design and many of the same sugarcrafted features. The base tier is a petal-shaped cake which very cleverly re-creates the look of the 12 base ... Read More...
Cake Banners
We are so taken with cake banners at the moment here at Cake Geek we've decided to feature them for the second time this month! Earlier this month we featured a beautiful birthday banner cake by Erica O'Brien (click here). This time we have two "Just Married" cake banners and another "Happy Birthday" banner by the wonderful Liz Shim of the Eat Cake Be Merry cake company in New York. Liz incorporates satin ribbon into her banner design and has featured a tutorial on this technique on her blog ... Read More...
Tea Cup Cake Toppers
A tea cup cake topper is super on-trend for cakes right now, combining two very popular party or wedding themes: vintage and tea parties. It's especially apt for Irish or UK weddings - two great tea drinking nations! The cake on the left (above) features a pink lace applique design which you can make using lace moulds available from many sugarcraft stores. The second cake features beautiful sugarcrafted floral cameos which give a lovely vintage feel to this colourful cake. The teacups ... Read More...