(This cake calligraphy tutorial is extracted with permission from The Gilded Cake by Faye Cahill, published by FW Media International and available to purchase here from Amazon). A. Transferring a pattern Before you can start to decorate, you’ll need to transfer your design onto a fondant-covered cake. Use a fine fabric such as chiffon or netting and an edible pen to trace the design onto the cake before adding colour and embellishment. Trace your design onto a piece of fine fabric using an ... Read More...
Piped Cake Tutorial by Carey Madden
This week we have a beautiful, and surprisingly easy, piped cake tutorial by Carey Madden from her book, Sensational Buttercream Decorating. If you haven't yet caught the buttercream bug, then you definitely will with this book. Covering basic buttercream decorating techniques from scratch, Carey takes the reader on a journey from the absolute basics to becoming accomplished in the art of beautifully decorated buttercream cakes. Sensational Buttercream Decorating encompasses a range of ... Read More...
Customized Calligraphy Cakes
There's no better way to fully customize your birthday cakes and wedding cakes than by hand-painting a personalized calligraphy message or name. Make it in gold and you couldn't be more on-trend! With Faye Cahill's tutorial on cake calligraphy from her newly published book, The Gilded Cake, here on Cake Geek this week, it's time to whip out your gold luster dust and get cracking on all those fabulous customized cakes you'll be able to make from now on without having to go anywhere near a piping ... Read More...
Graphic Art & Illustrated Cake Designs
Graphic art and illustrated cake designs are one area where the artistically inclined cake decorator can really come into their own. From pop art and comic strip designs to cartoon style hand-drawings, we have them all this week to inspire your own graphic art cake designs. Ads: Readers might also be interested in our features on: Beatrix Potter Cakes Bunny Rabbit Cakes Story Book Cakes ... Read More...