Ruffle cakes are really pretty, but a lot of them are made with fondant, which doesn’t taste that great most of the time. If you make buttercream ruffles, though, you’ll end up with a cake that more people will want to eat. And it’s not that hard to do, either. I did this cake for […]
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Piano cakes are pretty popular, but they do take a little engineering if you want to make them realistic. I made this tutorial when I made a birthday cake, and I’m making it available for you to download! What the piano cake looks like. This piano cake was made for the birthday of a concert
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Gumpaste Flowers Tutorial: How To make Gumpaste lavender. Step by Step Tutorial for making sugarpaste lavender. Lavender is a good small filler flower on floral wedding cakes and are easy to make to keep on hand for cake decorating. Sugar flowers tutorial step by step gum paste
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The cakes with small pedestal stands on them are pretty, but they always make me nervous about the possibility of the tier tipping over. When I did those cakes, I also made a lot of preparations in advance to build the cake the right way so that it would be sturdy when it was being
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Sequins on a cake can be a nice effect, but the ones that I’ve seen are either made with gelatin, which I don’t like, or they just don’t look realistic. Making edible sequins isn’t too difficult, but it’s definitely time-consuming. The final effect is worth it, though! How to make the gumpaste sequins. I needed
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I saw someone post about how to store gumpaste flowers recently, and it’s a good question. How you store your sugar flowers can be the deciding factor about whether they’re usable or not when you do remove them from storage. Protecting gumpaste from moisture. We tell people that you can save gumpaste for years as
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This cake with stripes and a textured fabric effect tier was based on one that the bride found online, but she wanted to add a few things to it. How to make the fabric effect. I put the abstract fabric effect from the wedding dress skirt on the middle tier by using strips of fondant.
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I did a cake that had vines of gumpaste flowers on the bottom two tiers. They were combinations of orchids and freesia-type flowers on a stem. To get this effect I used to dummies to make the vines. I put a skewer in the center and attached a wire to the skewer so that I could
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Wedding cake designs that have flowering vines on them are pretty, but the vines can move around while the cake is being transported or decorated. That can ruin the icing or the design of the cake, so it’s good to have a way to keep the vines in place. I’ve done a couple of wedding
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When you need to harden fondant fast to harden it or make it stand up, you can add tylose to make it into a quick gumpaste, or you can dry it out in a few ways. The easiest way is by using a dehydrator, but it might not work for every type of fondant shape.
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