Valentine's Cakes - Cake Geek Magazine

With just a month to go, it’s time to start planning your Valentine’s cakes for 2014. For those in the cake decorating business, early promotion of a beautiful range of Valentines cakes as a alternative to flowers will reap rewards for your business. Indeed, mini “cakes for two” have been a surprise hit in the US with Duff Goldman’s Charm City Cakes kick-starting the trend Stateside.

We’ve chosen two subtle and stylish cakes as our feature cakes for Valentine’s this year. We just adore the sentiment of the vintage banner cake topper above (image via Style Me Pretty with photo by Our Labour of Love), whereas the rustic shades of the ruffle heart cake above left exude simple sophistication in a beautiful cake design by Tessa Huff of Style Sweet CA.

The ruffle heart cake is one of Style Sweet Canada’s signature cake designs with another beautiful example below in turquoise textured buttercream with a powder pink ruffle rose topper – cake design that would be perfect as a pretty engagement cake. You’ll find more on creating ruffle designs in our feature here on Ruffle Rose Cakes or you can purchase a hand-made ruffle rose cake topper directly from Style Sweet CA here.

Another textured buttercream cake design below left with piped buttercream ruffles on the side and piped buttercream petals on top makes a super cute Valentine’s cake by Christina Copeland of Sweet Escape Cakes, New York. For more on buttercream piping, see our features: How to Pipe Buttercream Ruffles & Frills and How to Pipe a Buttercream Petal Cake.

Paper Pony have a very cute tutorial here to make the glitter heart cake toppers on the cake below right, which bring the wow factor to a simple cake design: glitter hearts cake topper tutorial (no longer available).

A pretty bunting cake topper makes the fabulous teddy bear cake below a very on-trend cake design suitable for lots of occasions, but the teddy holding a heart makes it a winner in the romance stakes for Valentine’s day. Imagine what an adorable engagment cake it would make if the teddy was holding the ring?! This exquisite teddy bear cake design is by the very talented Sharon Wee.

A miniature heart-shaped cake is a romantic gesture for an afternoon tea treat for a loved one on Valentine’s day (below right via Tumblr) and a selection of vintage style Valentine’s cookies also makes a very elegant Valentine’s gift (below right from Sugar Collection).

For everything you ever needed to know to create beautiful decorated cookies, check out Sweet Sugarbelle for lots of cookie decorating tutorials, including lace piped cookies.

Valentine’s Day is always a popular time of year for couples to get engaged and the two superb cakes below by the much admired Australian designer, Hello Naomi would make an ultra pretty engagement cake to mark the special occasion.

Tiny rosebuds arranged in a heart shape add a beautiful pop of colour to the vintage green coloured iced cake below left from Taarten-Decoreren.

The very striking heart-shaped rose cupcakes below right are from the team at Cake Journal and you’ll find the instructions to make them here: heart-shaped rose cupcakes tutorial.

We have annother pretty heart-shaped confection below topped with a romantic bed of roses from Baking Obsession. The roses are moulded from pink tinted modelling chocolate and the cake is finished with a big statement bow for an truly elegant cake design.

To create a heart-shaped cake the tutorial below shows you how you can cleverly combine a round cake and a square cake into a heart shape (via Pinterest) for a super quick and easy Valentine’s cake.

One of our favourite decorating blogs, The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle shows you how to create pretty mini roses with royal icing using a small star tip and a leaf tip. They’re really useful to have stored away in a box in a variety of colours for a quick decorating fix whenever you’re stuck for time and they work particularly well for vintage style cakes. Click here for the full tutorial: mini rose tutorial.

New York’s Betty Bakery created the beautiful quilled heart design cake perfect for Valentine’s day, below right. (You’ll find more on this technique in our feature on Cake Quilling). And we have another pretty cake design below right with miniature hearts in various shades of pink dotted all over a heart shaped cake for a funky Valentine’s cake design (via Pinterest).

Bubba’s Bakery have created the fabulous retro style cake below with a “tatoo style” heart cake topper complete with angel wings for a statement Valentine’s cake.

We have another pretty heart-shaped cake decorated simply in polka dots below right from Country Kitchen Sweet Art.

More cute custom designed Valentine’s cookies below from Just Call Me Martha (left) and a pretty heart-shaped balloon topping the striking blue and red Valentines cake design below right (via Partyz.co).

Below, we have a funky red and white heart cake from ultra trendy US cake designers, the Whipped Bakeshop (below left) and a whimsical style Valentine’s cake with heart shaped strings of bunting (below right) from Just Call Me Martha to match the coordinating Valentine’s cookies above.

A simple heart-shaped chocolate fudge cake topped with glazed raspberries makes a great Valentine’s dessert cake (from Sweet Kingdom below left) and to the right we have a wow cake from My Cake School.com with lots and lots of piped chocolate hearts. You’ll find the tutorial here: chocolate hearts Valentine’s cake.

For a really luxurious Valentine’s cake, the UK’s Cake Cucina have created the red-on-red wow cake below with piped lace detailing and statement rose on top.

Once Upon A Pedestal have designed the amazing wafer paper roses heart cake below and you’ll find the full tutorial here: wafer paper roses tutorial.

Amanda Retke of I Am Baker has created the amazing chocolate curls rose cake below right that would make a terrific Valentine’s cake (eventhough it was created as a Christmas dessert …!). You’ll find all the details on Amanda’s cake here: chocolate curl rose cake.

Below right, Spain’s YoCuNa Sugar Art have designed an unbelieveably cute Valentine’s teddy bear cake, that would also double as another great engagement cake.

To make the fabulous heart “surprise inside” cake (below), you’ll find the tutorial here at I Am Baker: “surprise inside” Valentine’s heart cake.

(Amanda Retke, one of the pioneers of the surprise inside cake trend, has published a book full book of “surprise inside” cakes which will be available in the UK in March: Surprise-Inside Cakes: Amazing Cakes for Every Occasion with a Little Something Extra Inside).

Cake Geek regular Erica O’Brien shows how to make a beautiful ruffle rose side design below for an exquisite Valentine’s cake design.

One of the simplest and more beautiful Valentine’s cake designs is the “I Heart You Cake” below left from Eat Cake Be Merry, a rich chocolate cake guaranteed to go down a treat.

The Dessert Queen, Brisbane has created the funky graphic lettering design below right with an extra pop of red for the day that’s in it.

We couldn’t resist the vintage style graphic below for Valentine’s day – the pefect Valentine’s message for the loved one of any cake decorating fanatic!

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