Pink is one of the classic colors for wedding cakes, whether it’s on the cake itself or just on the flowers that are arranged on the cake. There are a lot of ways to incorporate pink into the cake design, and these are some of the wedding cakes I made in the past. Wedding cakes …
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Whether you’re planning a small, intimate family wedding, or you’re going to City Hall for a low-key private ceremony, you don’t need to skip the wedding cake. You can have a pretty cake to celebrate your special day even if it’s only one or two tiers, and it definitely doesn’t have to look like a …
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This template to make a gumpaste or paper poppy can be downloaded and printed to use as a pattern. How to make the poppy. I used my template for the petals, and I cut out the larger set. Cut out the petals. I used crepe paper to make these, since the texture on the paper …
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Lilacs are a pretty gumpaste sugar flower for Spring cakes, but they take a LOT of tiny blossoms and buds. Luckily, one or two of the finished flowers are enough to create a dramatic effect on a tiered cake, along with other flowers that are faster to make! Materials needed to make gumpaste lilacs: Start …
When I made wedding cakes I never froze any type of cake, but if you have to do it, the best method is to be slow and patient about it. And freezing cake is one thing, but thawing it is another place where you can mess the cake up. If unfrosted or decorated cakes are …
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Gumpaste hyacinths aren’t a “normal” sugar flower for cake decorating, but since they’re unusual they also give a lot of visual interest. This set of cakes had gumpaste hyacinths and green bows with airbrushed buttercream to create the flowerpots. Making gumpaste hyacinths isn’t hard but it’s a little time-consuming because there are so many little …
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If you’re trying to make a dairy-free cake, you’ll also need to make icing without butter in it. Or you might want to maintain a vegan diet, which isn’t going to work with a lot of butter-free icing recipes. A lot of recipes for icing without butter have softened cream cheese or other dairy-based ingredients …
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3-tier wedding cakes are a good choice for a smaller reception, because you’ll have a taller cake and still be able to save the top tier if you’d like to. Depending on the shapes and diameters of the tiers, you can get a lot of servings out of a three-tier wedding cake, or you can …
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If you want a cake that looks taller than a stacked cake, you might want to add pillars or columns between the tiers, or between some of them, and add flowers between the spaces for color. By adding pillars you can increase the height between the cake tiers and easily make the cake 3″ to …
Gumpaste daffodils are a little complicated to make because of the bell and the stamens, which aren’t arranged like other flowers. But if you do it this way, it’s a very manageable flower to make, and they look really pretty on a Spring-themed floral wedding cake. Materials needed for the gumpaste daffodils: Make the stamens. …
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