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Mother’s Day Cakes

Mother's Day is the perfect excuse to make a beautiful vintage style floral cake to spoil your Mum or Gran with a luxurious afternoon tea.  The fabulous pale blue and pink Mother's Day cake above left (by Ceri Badham of Fancy Cakes by Linda) features a delicate stencilled lace side design for an elegant vintage touch. (You'll find more on lace stencilling in our earlier feature here: Stencilled Lace Wedding Cakes.) Above right, Cotton and Crumbs have designed an exquisite multi-tiered cake ... Read More...


Filed Under: Cake Designs for All Occasions Tagged: bunting cakes, buttercream cakes, cake banners, cakes with sugar flowers, seasonal cakes, simple cake decorating ideas, vintage party cakes

Valentine’s Cakes

valentines cakes via Style Me Pretty with photo by Our Labour of Love and valentines cake left with ruffle rose by Style Sweet CA

With just a month to go, it's time to start planning your Valentine's cakes for 2014.  For those in the cake decorating business, early promotion of a beautiful range of Valentines cakes as a alternative to flowers will reap rewards for your business.  Indeed, mini "cakes for two" have been a surprise hit in the US with Duff Goldman's Charm City Cakes kick-starting the trend Stateside. We've chosen two subtle and stylish cakes as our feature cakes for Valentine's this year. We just adore the ... Read More...


Filed Under: Patisserie Tagged: bunting cakes, buttercream cakes, cake business ideas, dessert cakes, seasonal cakes

Piping Techniques: Piping Scrolls

scroll piping techniques with wedding cakes via Lover.ly (left) and by The Pastry Studio (right)

Scroll piping is an enduringly elegant cake decoration and a technique that's well worth practicing for any beginner cake decorator.  While not as simple as pearl piping or drop string piping, it is nonethelss easy to master scroll piping with just a bit of practice. We have lots of exquisite examples below to inspire you, plus tutorials at the end of the pageto get you started. Our feature cakes above are by Nystedt Photography Via Sparkle and Hay (left) and from the  The Pastry Studio ... Read More...


Filed Under: Wedding Cake Design Inspiration & Tutorials Tagged: buttercream cakes, lace wedding cakes, piping techniques, vintage party cakes, vintage wedding cakes

Our Top 10 Halloween Cakes!

halloween cakes haunted house by Martha Stewart Living (left) and via Indulgy.com (right)

Halloween is the perfect excuse to indulge your novelty cake-making talents! To inspire you, we have two masterpiece Halloween cakes above from Martha Stewart (top left) and via Indulgy.com (right).  You'll find the templates for Martha's spectacular cake here: haunted house templates, as well as directions to make the cake.   The detailing on this cake is exquisite right down to the use of sunflower seeds for the roof slates! While the grey marbled effect fondant on the cake on the ... Read More...


Filed Under: Novelty Cake Design & Tutorials Tagged: buttercream cakes, seasonal cakes, simple cake decorating ideas

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