Our fabulous recipe this week is the exquisite Chocolate Salted Caramel Dream Cake from the famed Cutter & Squidge Bakery in London. Emily and Annabel Lui, the dynamic duo behind the bakery, have produced a gem of a book, Afternoon Tea at the Cutter & Squidge Bakery: Delicious Recipes for Dream Cakes, Biskies, Savouries and More. It's one of the most exciting collection of recipes for the finest bakes and irresistible pastries that Cake Geek has come across. With recipes for ... Read More...
Fruits of the Forest – Autumn Nuts & Berries
With rustic, woodsy wedding backdrops haute wedding style for 2015/2016, there's never been a better time to try out decorating with gumpaste fruits of the forest and autumnal foliage. Inspired by a selection of the some of the best examples of fall-themed cake art below, we've put together a collection of helpful tutorials for autumn themed cake decorating: sugar pearls blackberry tutorial fondant acorn tutorial wafer paper oak leaves and isomalt acorn tutorial gumpaste oak ... Read More...
Rustic Winter Wedding Cakes
While rustic style weddings are hugely popular with summer brides, winter is the perfect season to host a rustic wedding with glowing candles, pine cones, log fires, red berries and winter foliage at your disposal to create that perfect rustic setting. The queen of British sugar floristry, Amy Swann has created a magical winter wedding cake (above right) featuring a swirling cornucopia of winter delights - red berries, snowberries, sloes berries, silver foliage and intertwining ... Read More...
Autumn Cakes for the Fall Season
Autumn is the season of plenty and in many cultures festivals are held at this time of year to celebrate the bountiful harvest of nature's most beautiful season. Autumn makes a wonderful time of year for a gathering, whether a wedding or a party and with the abundance of fruit in the orchards and hedgerows, there's no better time to make a wonderful harvest-themed cake. Our feature cakes above pay homage to the beautiful season of autumn incorporating all the wonderful shades of the fall ... Read More...