Cake Techniques

It can be so satisfying getting a perfectly smooth buttercream cake with sharp edges, but what if you don't want your buttercream perfectly smooth. Maybe you're looking to create a rustic themed cake, or maybe you just want to add some fun design onto the side of your cake. In ...

One trend that seems to be becoming a lot more popular at the moment is vintage inspired piped cakes. One of my favourite things about this technique is you can finally use the smaller piping tips you may have got in piping sets and you never really knew what to use ...

Recently I have started seeing people adding fondant wraps around their cakes, whether they go all the way around or just cover part of the cake, similar to the fault line cake but instead of buttercream these are made from fondant / sugarpaste. I really love this style and think ...

A few weeks ago I received a bunch of goodies from the new Spell Bound range by Sweet Stamp and it included their new letter set. By now you will probably all know I am such a fan of the Sweet Stamp letter sets, I knew I had to create ...

A few weeks ago I uploaded a tutorial which showed you how to add shimmer and sparkle onto your cakes. In this tutorial I used pink diamond lustre dust mixed with dipping solution to create a metallic edible paint (If you haven't seen it you can click here to watch that ...

I have been so excited to test out making rice paper sails and adding them onto a cake. They look so pretty and a little abstract. In this weeks video tutorial I'm showing you how I made these transparent rice paper sails and different ways you can colour them to ...