Cake Decorating Tips And Tutorials

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. […]

Those little gumpaste baby shoes that go on the top of baby shower cakes can be a lot more time-consuming than they look. It doesn’t help if you’ve never made any before, as I found out the hard way. This is my advice about what to pay attention to so that you can experience an

Making ombre buttercream stripes is pretty easy, but it takes a while because there’s a lot of icing mixing involved. Start with the darkest color. These stripes were piped on using graduated shades of ivory buttercream. Have I ever mentioned that I hate colored buttercream? I hate, hate, hate changing pastry bags and having all

Making mauve buttercream or royal icing is easy if you start with pink then tone it down. Since mauve is kind of a pastel version of pink, you can usually get a good pastel color if you do it that way.  It’s an easy-to-use method to produce a muted color Start with a base color

I did a cake with a ton of gumpaste raspberries on it last week, and someone asked if I used a mold.  Heck yes I did, that would have been waaaaay too time-consuming otherwise! Here’s a video on how to get the raspberries in and out of the mold: Here’s a link to the molds: Raspberry

When you cover a cake with colored buttercream everyone worries about how the guests will end up with dyed tongues. Not only that, but a lot of certain food colors will make the icing bitter or just “off” tasting. The best way to avoid a colored-icing overload is to cover the cake in a regular

Using isomalt decorations on a cake can be a good way to incorporate glass-like elements, but it comes with some risks, including whether it’s a good idea to refrigerate isomalt at all. Watch out for the humidity. In general, isomalt that’s on a cake can be refrigerated as long as the humidity is controlled when

Putting fondant drapes on a cake so that the fondant looks like fabric is actually pretty simple if you use this easy fondant drape technique. Swags and fondant drape cake designs can be formal and elegant or messy and casual, and you can see some drape wedding cakes here. Making the folded fondant into swags

I had another baker contact me to see if I had any ideas about how to do a gathered cloth effect on a cake. I told her I’d do a little walk-through on it because some things are easier to show than the describe. When you gather fabric you sew a line of stitching then pull the

I’ve had a few requests for the gumpaste recipe that I use, but I can’t give it out. I genuinely don’t know it for small quantities. I make my gumpaste in very large amounts because I tend to go through it really fast.  It’s kind of a hybrid of a few different recipes, and to reduce the ingredient