Cake Geek Magazine

Cake Tutorials, Trends, Design & Styling

Lattice Cake Designs

A lattice pattern, whether piped with royal icing, stencilled or created with strips of fondant, makes a beautiful old world cake design for a wedding or special occassion. The Abigail Bloom Cake Company created the delicate lattice design wedding cake (above left) by piping an intricate series of tiny pearl beads to create an elegant wedding centrepiece. On the right, miniature sugar blossoms are arranged in a geometrical lattice pattern in beautiful example of cake artistry by The Art of ... Read More...

Marie Antoinette Cakes

For a lavish birthday cake or novelty wedding cake, nothing beats a Marie Antoinette cake for pomp and splendour. Gilded gold, baroque mouldings and of course an intricate replica of the French Queen herself add a refined and fanciful air to an extravagant occasion. It's a uniquely challenging cake theme that tests the skills of many advanced cake designers, but our selection of cakes this week shows what artistry, dilligence and exquisite sugar work can create. Our feature cake above was ... Read More...

Toile Cake Designs

Beautiful artwork never goes out of style and with handpainted cake art exploding in popularity, exquisite antique toile patterns have become the one of the most chic and admired vintage cake styles of the moment. The Cake Opera Company and Pasteles Alma have created the two outstanding toile masterpieces above, left and right respectively, with matching toile cookies by Pasteles Alma below, perfect for a super chic wedding or event. (Hand drawings on the Pasteles Alma confectionery by Sonje ... Read More...

Cakes with Stripes

As with polka dots featured on Monday, stripes are also a great customisable cake design that work for lots of occasions, whether you're going for smart stripes or whimsical striping. Cotton candy pink and soft brown make a pretty combination in our feature cake (above left) by Zoe Clark of The Cake Parlour, with smart blue and grey creating a chic and unique colour combination in an elegant cake design (above right) by My Cupcakery. Blue and white stripes with a hint of beige makes an ... Read More...