Cake Geek was fully expecting to have a new baby Prince or Princess in the UK by now and so this week's feature was planned in his or her honour. But the little royal baby is keeping us all waiting, so in anticipation of the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge having a healthy, happy new baby this week, we present a selection of glorious crown cakes to mark the occasion. Our feature cake (top left) sees a simple white-frosted cake taken to regal heights with an antique crown topper by Cakes by ... Read More...
Spring Wedding Cakes in a Woodland Style
The most beautiful spring wedding cakes incorporate elements of nature and the turning of the seasons including spring blooms and rustic styling. German cake designer, Martina Bliedung of Floralilie has captured the essence of early spring wonderfully in her exquisite snowdrop wedding cake above, absolutely perfect for a late winter/early spring wedding. To make your own hand-crafted snowdrops, check out our gumpaste snowdrops tutorial here. More sugarcrafted snowdrops feature in the ... Read More...
Rustic Christmas Cakes & Winter Berry Cakes
Rustic style cake decorating really comes into its own for the festive season with an abundance of simple decorations to create that pared-down, natural look for holiday cakes. Frozen berries add a wonderful iced effect to a christmas dessert with a beautiful example (above left) by Laugh Love Cakes, accented with sprigs for rosemary for pretty festive arrangement (image Kat Wilson Photography via Ruffled). The doyenne of rustic style cake decorating, Sweden's Linda Lomelino of Call Me ... Read More...
Reindeer Cakes
As regular readers of Cake Geek & our Facebook page know, we've developed a slight obsession with deer themed cakes lately (if you missed it see our recent super cute Baby Deer Cakes feature). So we've decided to kick off our Christmas cake decorating coverage this year with, your guessed it...reindeer cakes! The beautiful stag's head wedding cake above is what's largely responsible for our deer cake crush and was designed by Dana Smyl Event Florist left, (image by Precious Pictures ... Read More...