Cake Geek Magazine

Cake Tutorials, Trends, Design & Styling

Mermaid Cakes

A mermaid cake is a magical gift for any little birthday girl so we've brought you a selection of the prettiest cakes designs we could find.  Our feature cake above is exquisitely designed by Cake Avenue (Australia) and features beautiful ombre frills which cleverly create an ocean wave effect. To help you with your own mermaid cake design, Cake Journal has a great tutorial on how to make a mermaid cake topper. You'll also find a tutorial here to show you how to make fondant frills for your ... Read More...

Bunting Wedding Cakes

A bunting wedding cake makes a fabulous centrepiece for a summer wedding with a garden party, carnival or village fete theme. Both of the cakes above feature piped rosettes as featured in our Buttercream Piping Series (Part 1). The cake on the left is decorated with pretty semi-circle shaped bunting made from edible transfer sheets and the super cute cake topper is made with striped vintage straws. The cake on the right features a pretty posy of garden flowers in a short vase as a cake ... Read More...

Teddy Bears’ Picnic Cakes

A teddy bears picnic cake always works great for birthday parties for little ones and is a great cake to have in your collection.  The above cake by Zoe Clark of The Cake Parlour keeps it simple yet chic with pretty vintage colours in sage green, pale blue and pink rosebuds. It's a theme you can go into as much detail with as you like, as the cake designs below demonstrate.  While our own preference here is for pastel coloured children's cake, the teddy bears picnic theme works great in ... Read More...

Lollipop Cakes

Of all the cake trends of the moment, this is Cake Geek's favourite for a big celebration.  Whether is a children's party or for an adult who's still a kid at heart, these are statement cakes no matter what the celebration. The cake above left is by the talented Kathy Dvorski in Toronto and very cleverly combines three celebrations in one cake - a tier for each party girl. The middle cake is based on the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and is by the wonderful Elisa Strauss at ... Read More...