Making wafer paper flowers is a good way to make flowers for wedding cakes, but they can take as much time as gumpaste depending on the detail that you put into them. I developed a few shortcuts to...
Category: Cake decorating
Magnolias are a dramatic flower, and making one in wafer paper will let you add a really striking focus flower to your cake. I tested a few ways when I was figuring out how to make a wafer paper...
Easy DIY Cake Lace Recipe, and What Different Ingredients Do
This easy cake decorating technique will make a molded cake lace that you can use on wedding cakes, birthday cakes for women, and pretty baby shower cakes. The cake lace recipe doesn't use additional...
When I made wedding cakes I never froze any type of cake, but if you have to do it, the best method to thaw a cake for decorating is to be slow and patient about it. And freezing cake is one thing,...
These piped buttercream flowers that you can make ahead of time include daffodils and little hydrangea blossoms. You can do these on piping nails and transfer them to cakes or cupcakes by air-drying...
Making gold and silver icing is tricky, because if you mix edible luster dust into buttercream the shiny particles can't reflect light back, and that's what makes it shine. You have to use something...