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...
Lemon Wedding Cakes – A Slice of Summer
With lemon bridesmaid dresses a key trend for the 2014 wedding season, lemon wedding cakes are set to be a popular request next year. While lemon-flavoured cake has always been a popular choice for spring and summer wedding cakes, lemon-coloured icing will be the colour of choice for summer brides next year looking for a slightly less-traditional wedding cake. Although it's not an obvious choice, lemon-tinted icing also happens to be a great "backdrop" colour for many other palettes. Our ... Read More...
Neapolitan Cake – A Great Summer Chocolate Cake
If one trend has gone viral in cake decorating this year, it's the trend for neapolitan cakes. The combination of chocolate, strawberry & vanilla is a classic. Rosie Alyea of Sweetapolita fame created the gorgeous "Inside-Out Neapolitan Cake" cake pictured above. It's a very simple and very eye-catching take on the neapolitan cake, based around a rich chocolate sponge layered with chocolate, vanilla and pink/strawberry buttercream. Buttercream is piped in an "elongated shell" pattern ... Read More...
How to Pipe Buttercream Ruffles & Frills
Buttercream ruffles and frills make up the final part of our buttercream piping series. The terms are used interchangeably, but here at Cake Geek we tend to call the design above buttercream "ruffles" and the designs at the bottom of the page, buttercream "frills". Whatever terms you use, both designs create a beautiful effect and are super on-trend at the moment for wedding cakes and party cakes. The two beautiful cake designs above are by Colour It Sweet (left) and by Carisa's Cakes ... Read More...
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