This week’s Halloween S’Mores Rat Tarts recipe and tutorial has to go down as one of the creepiest we’ve ever featured here at Cake Geek Magazine! It’s from Helena Garcia’s The Witch-Crafting Handbook, her follow-up to The Wicked Baker. With over 70 projects for stylish witches to make at home, it is inspired by ancient […]
Tree Spirit Cake Tutorial for Halloween
This unique tree spirit cake tutorial, taken from Helena Garcia’s The Wicked Baker, shows you how to create the perfect centerpiece 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 […]
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. Gumpaste Acorn Tutorial: […]
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 […]
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. Gumpaste/Fondant Pumpkin Tutorial: Materials Orange fondant with CMC/Tylose powder added (1 teaspoon per 500g) to firm it […]