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...
Winter Wedding Cake Trends
Winter wedding cake design has really come into its own in the past two winters. No longer is the standard winter wedding cake option red roses set against a white iced cake. Instead, there are an array of cake trends for brides to choose from. One of the biggest winter wedding cake trends this year is an extension of the jewelled wedding cake trend, with silver being a perfect colour accent for this time of year. The beautiful silver and black accented wedding cake (above left) by Brooklyn ... 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...
Our Top 10 Halloween Cakes!
Halloween is the perfect excuse to indulge your novelty cake-making talents! To inspire you, we have two masterpiece Halloween cakes above from Martha Stewart (top left) and via Indulgy.com (right). You'll find the templates for Martha's spectacular cake here: haunted house templates, as well as directions to make the cake. The detailing on this cake is exquisite right down to the use of sunflower seeds for the roof slates! While the grey marbled effect fondant on the cake on the ... Read More...