This exquisite wildflower wedding cake tutorial by Juliet Sear is from her fabulous new book, Botanical Baking (© David & Charles Publishing. Published with permission). Juliet has been one of the UK's leading sugar artists for well over a decade and her book perfectly captures the growing trend in natural style baking and cake decorating. It features so many unique and creative cake decorating projects using garden flowers and a variety of fruits, that are refreshingly quick and ... Read More...
Cake Calligraphy Tutorial by Faye Cahill from The Gilded Cake
(This cake calligraphy tutorial is extracted with permission from The Gilded Cake by Faye Cahill, published by FW Media International and available to purchase here from Amazon). A. Transferring a pattern Before you can start to decorate, you’ll need to transfer your design onto a fondant-covered cake. Use a fine fabric such as chiffon or netting and an edible pen to trace the design onto the cake before adding colour and embellishment. Trace your design onto a piece of fine fabric using an ... Read More...
Blue Tiled Wedding Cake Decorating Tutorial by Lindy Smith
This week, Lindy Smith shares with us a beautiful blue titled wedding cake decorating tutorial from her book, Simply Modern Wedding Cakes. Vibrant colours and contemporary designs are the hallmark of Lindy's cake decorating and her latest book is jam packed full of inspiration for the cake decorator. Lindy describes the inspiration behind this stylish new design: "Something old, something new, something borrowed… and this stylish cake is the perfect something blue! Tiled patterns and ... Read More...
Peach & Gold Stencilled Wedding Cake Decorating Tutorial
In this feature tutorial, Emily Lael Aumiller of Lael Cakes demonstrates her beautiful peach & gold stencilled wedding cake decorating tutorial from her book, Pure Artistry: Extraordinary Vegan and Gluten Free Cakes (© Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.) "This cake showcases painted gold details along with sculpted marzipan peaches and fondant blossoms and leaves. I painted the ornate gold patterns using a stencil first and then embellished ... Read More...