(This cake calligraphy tutorial is extracted with permission from The Gilded Cake by Faye Cahill, published by FW Media International and available to purchase here from Amazon). A. Transferring a pattern Before you can start to decorate, you’ll need to transfer your design onto a fondant-covered cake. Use a fine fabric such as chiffon or netting and an edible pen to trace the design onto the cake before adding colour and embellishment. Trace your design onto a piece of fine fabric using an ... Read More...
Blue Tiled Wedding Cake Decorating Tutorial by Lindy Smith
This week, Lindy Smith shares with us a beautiful blue titled wedding cake decorating tutorial from her book, Simply Modern Wedding Cakes. Vibrant colours and contemporary designs are the hallmark of Lindy's cake decorating and her latest book is jam packed full of inspiration for the cake decorator. Lindy describes the inspiration behind this stylish new design: "Something old, something new, something borrowed… and this stylish cake is the perfect something blue! Tiled patterns and ... Read More...
Stamped Cake Tutorial by Erin Gardner
As readers of Cake Geek will know, we're huge fans of Erin Gardner and The Wild Orchid Baking Company so we were super excited when a copy of Erin's book, Great Cake Decorating arrived on our desk. Our biggest problem was trying to choose which of the 30 cakes to share with you - there were lots of new techniques and brilliant tips but we eventually settled on Erin's hand-stamped floral "Craft Cake" above. Stamped cake designs and illustrated sugar plaques are two techniques we haven't tried ... Read More...
Crochet Lace Cake Tutorial
Valeri Valeriano and Christina Ong share with us their Crochet Lace Cake Tutorial this week from their book, The Contemporary Buttercream Bible. No one has taken the world of cake decorating by storm quite the way Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes girls have and their book is a masterpiece in cake design innovation, oozing with ideas, concepts, textures and brand new techniques in the art of buttercream cake decorating. Beginner decorators have been traditionally been wary of decorating with ... Read More...