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...
Cakes With Bunting
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...
Hot Air Balloon Cakes
Hot air balloon cakes are the birthday cake theme of the moment Stateside. Seeing a hot air balloon in the sky is a magical sight so a hot air balloon cake is guaranteed to make a beautiful centrepiece at a ny party and will definitely entrance the little ones. The cake (left) is by party planner supremo Kara Allen and features in her book Kara's Party Ideas. The next cake is a variation on the same design, with the colour pink beautifully incorporated. It's by Sweet Things (Toront0) ... Read More...