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...
Stamped Cake Tutorial by Erin Gardner
As readers of Cake Geek will know, we're huge fans of Erin Gardner and The Wild Orchid Baking Company so we were super excited when a copy of Erin's book, Great Cake Decorating arrived on our desk. Our biggest problem was trying to choose which of the 30 cakes to share with you - there were lots of new techniques and brilliant tips but we eventually settled on Erin's hand-stamped floral "Craft Cake" above. Stamped cake designs and illustrated sugar plaques are two techniques we haven't tried ... Read More...
Crochet Lace Cake Tutorial
Valeri Valeriano and Christina Ong share with us their Crochet Lace Cake Tutorial this week from their book, The Contemporary Buttercream Bible. No one has taken the world of cake decorating by storm quite the way Queen of Hearts Couture Cakes girls have and their book is a masterpiece in cake design innovation, oozing with ideas, concepts, textures and brand new techniques in the art of buttercream cake decorating. Beginner decorators have been traditionally been wary of decorating with ... Read More...
A Compendium of Sugar Flower Tutorials
Sugar flowers add a sensational finishing touch to wedding cakes and special occasion cakes so we’ve compiled a selection of sugar flower tutorials to help you on your way to sugar flower mastery First up is our gumpaste rose tutorial featured above. It's part of our Quick & Easy Sugar Flowers collection and features a speedier method for creating large gumpaste roses. It also demonstrates a unique way of creating textured/torn petals that give a really natural look ... Read More...