Downton Abbey is one of the biggest style influences for weddings this year with vintage weddings taking on a distinct 1920’s feel. Wedding cake design has embraced the trend enthusiastically with a revival in popularity in piped wedding cake designs and royal icing techniques – a trend that was started with the Royal wedding cake […]
Lambeth Cakes & Introductory Tutorials
The Lambeth method is one of the most skilled techniques in cake decorating and probably the most admired too. Lambeth piping is based on the centuries old English tradition of “overpiping”, creating rows and rows of intricate piped details, scrolls and garlands one on top of the other to give impressive depth and layering to […]
Piping Techniques: Piping Scrolls
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, […]
Piping Techniques: Piping Drop Strings
Piping drop strings often seems like one of the most daunting cake decorating techniques for the beginner cake decorator. For years Cake Geek herself stuck to piping pearl garlands bead-by-bead in the belief that drop strings would be much too difficult. Then one day, just messing around with a piping bag and a cake dummy, […]
Piping Techniques: Pearls and Beaded Garlands
A piped beaded garland is a superbly elegant wedding cake decoration and is one of the simplest piping techniques even for beginners. Having marked out the distance between each swag or scallop, as well as the drop length, it is simply a matter of piping pearl beads in a semi-circular shape to achieve that most […]