Chic cake designs are often the simplest cake designs. And our feature cakes above are proof of this. There's not a Santa Claus in sight, yet they ooze festive warmth and homeliness. The beautiful chocolate Boston Cream Pie above, decorated in stunning gold accents, is by Yelena Strokin of Cooking Melangery and is the ultimate in festive cake glamour. Gold dragees/sprinkles and reindeer cake decorations like these are available in lots of cake decorating stores coming up to Christmas. The ... 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...
Swedish Princess Cakes & Dome Cakes
Peggy Porschen's Boutique Baking is credited with bringing the traditional Swedish Princess Cake to the fore of fashionable baking. The dome-shaped cake is a traditional special occasion cake in its native Scandinavia and got its name from originally being used as wedding standby cake. It's traditionally covered in green marzipan (if any body knows why, please let us know!) but the cake style has been re-interpreted by celebrity bakers in various different shades. Martha Stewart created a ... Read More...