Vintage banner cake toppers are a great way to dress up single tier cakes, especially since textured buttercream cakes are so in vogue at the moment for weddings and parties. Whether you go with a petal piped cake, buttercream ruffles or piped roses, a hand-crafted cake topper adds that extra wow factor to top off your cake. For those in the cake decorating business, a simple extra like a cake banner suitable for the occasion makes the final product much more high-end and therefore allows for ... 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...
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...