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Downton Abbey Wedding Cakes

Downton Abbey wedding cakes by La Cakerie with photo by Kimberly Brooke left and from Tortas Paso a Paso right

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 […]


Filed Under: Wedding Cake Design Inspiration & Trends Tagged: piping techniques, vintage wedding cakes, wedding cake trends

Lambeth Cakes & Introductory Tutorials

lambeth piping via Martha Stewart Weddings left and by J'adore Cakes Co. right

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 […]


Filed Under: Wedding Cake Design Inspiration & Trends Tagged: piping techniques, vintage wedding cakes, wedding cake trends

Piping Techniques: Piping Scrolls

scroll piping techniques with wedding cakes via Lover.ly (left) and by The Pastry Studio (right)

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, […]


Filed Under: Wedding Cake Design Inspiration & Trends Tagged: buttercream cakes, lace wedding cakes, piping techniques, vintage party cakes, vintage wedding cakes

Piping Techniques: Piping Drop Strings

drop string piping technique with cakes by Leslea Matsis left and by Baked Impressions right

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, […]


Filed Under: Cake Designs for All Occasions Tagged: piping techniques, simple cake decorating ideas, vintage party cakes, vintage wedding cakes

Piping Techniques: Pearls and Beaded Garlands

piping techniques with cakes from Rosalind Miller (left) and Pinterest (right)

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 […]


Filed Under: Cake Designs for All Occasions Tagged: piping techniques, vintage party cakes, vintage wedding cakes

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