The "Falling Petals" wedding cake design is featuring heavily in bridal magazines in the UK, US and worldwide this summer so expect lots of requests for it from brides for 2014. It looks fabulous in all- white, but it's a great design for incorporating colour also if the bride so wishes. You can use coloured icing with white petals, or white icing and coloured petals. Or you can simply colour the edges of the petals using a food colouring pen or with dust colour using a fine-tipped ... Read More...
Harlequin Cakes
A harlequin or diamond shaped pattern is a great side design for birthday cakes or celebration cakes. It gives a great whimsical feel to the overall cakes design and is a very striking pattern. It's very popular for party cakes Stateside but UK decorators have been slow to embrace the harlequin for some reason! A harlequin pattern works great for decorating chocolate cakes as you can see from the two examples above, the cake on the left by TV star Duff Goldberg of Charm City Cakes and the ... Read More...
Bunting Wedding Cakes
A bunting wedding cake makes a fabulous centrepiece for a summer wedding with a garden party, carnival or village fete theme. Both of the cakes above feature piped rosettes as featured in our Buttercream Piping Series (Part 1). The cake on the left is decorated with pretty semi-circle shaped bunting made from edible transfer sheets and the super cute cake topper is made with striped vintage straws. The cake on the right features a pretty posy of garden flowers in a short vase as a cake ... Read More...
How to Pipe Buttercream Ruffles & Frills
Buttercream ruffles and frills make up the final part of our buttercream piping series. The terms are used interchangeably, but here at Cake Geek we tend to call the design above buttercream "ruffles" and the designs at the bottom of the page, buttercream "frills". Whatever terms you use, both designs create a beautiful effect and are super on-trend at the moment for wedding cakes and party cakes. The two beautiful cake designs above are by Colour It Sweet (left) and by Carisa's Cakes ... Read More...
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