Shaped and 3D Cake Tutorials

It’s almost time for the biggest football game of the year in the US, and you might want to make a fun football helmet cake. This step-by-step tutorial will help you do it, and it’s not that hard even for beginners. Materials needed. All links in this section go to Amazon (#ad) Two 8” round […]

This 3D animal cake tutorial is designed to show you how to structure a 3-D animal cake, using the honey badger cake as an example. By adapting the different steps to different animals, you’ll be able to make dogs and cat as well as other types of animals. Hints and tips before starting. Using a 9×13 two-layer

“Can you make a gnome cake” my friends asked me… Oh, yes… I love gnomes. It’s not quite an obsession, but I have very particular ideas about what a “real” gnome should be. They should NOT be extremely cute, with happy animals frolicking around them. They should NOT have butterflies or birds on their shoulders…You

I did a pug cake last week, so I thought I’d post some basic photos of the steps I took to make it. Carve the cake shape. The first thing you need to do is cut the cakes and get the basic dog shape. As you carve the cake, keep the cut-off pieces as large

How to make a kissing hippos cake design for a funny groom’s cake idea. Carved animal cakes are cute at a wedding reception, or make it for an anniversary. Grooms cake ideas unique | bride and grooms cakes | carved animal cakes | Easy carved cakes ideas | carved cakes tutorials | funny grooms cake ideas | grooms cakes ideas unique | cake decorating tutorials

Cigar box cakes are a popular groom’s cake design, and they could also be good for a baby shower. But sometimes a cigar cake looks less like a cigar and more like other things. If you do a quick online image search for “cigar cake” you’ll see what I mean. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Okay, now that

Last week I did an anchor groom’s cake, and the groom requested specifically that the anchor be brown and rusty-looking, not shiny. That meant that I had to treat the icing differently, but it’s a lot easier than making it perfectly shiny! Cut the shape. I started with a 9″x13″ sheet and cut the shape

This one was fun…a 24″ tall lighthouse with an isomalt beacon. I used chocolate fondant and candy clay to cover it so that it would be stiffer than fondant would be. Since it was being picked up by the client it needed to be able to travel, so the sturdier the better. The base layer

This castle cake was fun and a lot easier than it looks. It’s basically a two-tiered square cake with round towers on each corner, and the whole thing is covered with a fondant/candy clay mixture. How to make the towers. This is how I did the towers on each corner. First, to make the towers,

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