Cake Decorating Tips And Tutorials

I’ve had the Patterned Pastes book by Geraldine Dahlke for quite a while, and I never really had a reason to use it. But it was always interesting, and since I recently started looking at polymer clays the techniques in patterning fondant and gumpaste came to mind. When you work with clay it obviously behaves differently than […]

It’s pretty easy to do plaids and tartans if you paint on fondant, but that can give you muddy colors. The cake in the photo here was done with candy clay strips applied to a flat piece, and food coloring. You can read about how to make the patterned pastes here. The downside to doing

I’ve been messing around with gels, gumpastes, and other recipes recently. I came up with this recipe for an unbreakable gel that doesn’t end up drying out and being too brittle even after a week of drying. I adapted it for cake lace, too, it’s basically the same thing but with less water in it.

Every now and then you get a rough edge on gumpaste flower petals. No big deal, you can usually fix it while the gumpaste is wet. But then there are the ones that you miss, and those you need to deal with in a harsher manner. Here’s the flower with the rough petal: Here’s the

My sick obsession with petal dusts had resulted in having way too many of them. I tend to lose track of how many I have and what colors I have, so I end up buying more. Not that I wouldn’t buy more anyway. (Check them out here on Amazon. #ad) I found this container system in

Using colored gumpaste might seem like a fast way to get to the final product without having to dust color onto it. But solid colored gumpaste can look flat, so dusting it helps to give it some depth. Dusting a dry color on gumpaste can bring out the texture and add a depth of color to the

Painted cakes are very trendy right now, but what do you do if you stink at drawing? There are “cheater” ways to paint an image on a cake, and this is one of them. Being creative if you can’t draw. Me being me, I told her that of course she could, she just needed to

Have you ever had a cake on your schedule that you knew would take a long time because of all the little fondant details you’ll need to cut out on decorating day? Well, fear no more, because you can easily freeze fondant to prevent it from drying out, then thaw it when you need it.

There are plenty of cold porcelain recipes out there, but I wanted to find one that would be totally non-toxic and would be okay to use for toppers, etc. I adapted one that had baby oil in it so that the ingredients were as food-y as possible, and it worked to make these little roses

Gold-painted fondant is very popular, but you need to be careful about how you do it and what type of gold paint is used.  To paint fondant gold, you will need to make sure that the gold dust that’s being used is food-grade and labeled edible. There are many types of gold dusts that are