Shaped and 3D Cake Tutorials

“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 groom’s 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. It’s helpful to go online to get pictures of the

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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. This is how I did the towers on each corner. First, to make the towers, you’ll need a bunch of

This one was made for the birthday of a concert pianist. It was based on his antique Steinway concert grand piano, which I saw when I delivered it. Talk about a beautiful piano! This cake was over 18″ long and about 6″ tall without the cover open. Here’s a list of the materials that you’ll need

I did this honeybadger cake for another fan, but I wanted to post some more photos of him from different angles. You can get the downloadable tutorial on how to make him, or other animals that have a similar shape, on my website here: Honeybadger tutorial. This is the view from the left side…You get a good look

There are a lot of “how to make a sewing machine cake” articles out there, but I couldn’t find one that showed the internal structure and wasn’t made of rice krispies. I made a sewing machine cake recently and took photos beforehand of the structural parts of it. The electronic machines today are different from older