Category: Shaped and 3D Cake Tutorials

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...

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...

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...

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...

I did this honeybadger cake for another fan, but I wanted to post some more photos of him from different angles. To see a full photo tutorial on how I made this...

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...