Wedding cake designs that have flowering vines on them are pretty, but the vines can move around while the cake is being transported or decorated. That can ruin the icing or the design of the cake, so it’s good to have a way to keep the vines in place. I’ve done a couple of wedding […]
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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.
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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
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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 cake, click here. This is the view from the left side…You get a good look at the honeycomb here. Here are his beady eyes, these
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Just a hint…When you’re coloring gumpaste, make sure that you’re not dusting or spraying only one color. Flowers have more than one tone to them, and using different shades will look better than one flat color. Here we have some green hydrangeas…They’re okay, but add a little pink to them and they get a little
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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
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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 to show how it was set up. Sewing
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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
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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
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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
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