Cake Geek Magazine

Cake Tutorials, Trends, Design & Styling

The Prettiest Giant Cupcake Cakes

Giant cupcake cakes are one of the prettiest birthday treats with the added advantage of having a super fast turn-around time for busy decorators.  In fact, there isn't much decorating to do, as the shaped cupcake tin does most of the work, especially if you opt for an all-buttercream finish. Katie Hitchborn of Katie's Cake Box UK makes some of the most gorgeous cupcake cakes/giant cupakes in the UK in a fabulous vintage floral style, including the beautiful example above right, with an ... Read More...

Graduation Cakes

A special graduation cake makes a beautiful confectionery tribute to the hard work and achievement of a new graduate. Graduation cakes are getting more and more popular each year and this week we have a selection of some of our favourites from top cake designers. Our feature cake is by the Little Teacup Bakery, Toronto and features one of the coolest new cake design trends -  a chalkboard effect cake - perfectly apt for a new teacher's graduation. The traditional mortarboard worn for ... Read More...

Floral Patterned Lace Cakes

The love affair with lace continues for brides this season and next with lace wedding cakes being the top wedding cake trend again for 2014/15 brides. Beautiful lace effects can be created on cake in lots of different ways including lace piping, lace applique, stencilled lace and with edible lace/lace mats. But one of the most beautiful styles of cake lace is floral lace - created using delicate sugar blossoms for an enhanced lace effect. Swedish designer, Lina Veber, demonstrates this ... Read More...

Polka Dot Cakes

A polka dot design is one of the prettiest and simplest cake decorations and works for lots of different occassions and styles of cakes, whether contemporary or vintage. We have two fabulous polka dot wedding cakes above in pretty pastels by Hall of Cakes UK (left) and Sophisticakes of Falmouth,UK (right), perfect for vintage themed weddings. Hong Kong desiger, Paige Fong hascreated a contemporary style occasion cake below, using giant-size polka dots with pastel pink and black ... Read More...