Cake Techniques

Happy New Year! This is my first post of 2022, so I want to start by wishing you all a very happy and safe 2022. What a start to the year it has been. This week the Cakes by Lynz YouTube channel hit 500k subscribers. I am honestly blown away ...

A few weeks on my Instagram and the community page on my YouTube channel, I asked what people wanted to see on the channel and so many people said wafer paper (also known as rice paper). There was a technique I've been seeing for a while on Pinterest that I ...

It's officially Autumn in the UK so I thought it would be really fun to create an Autumn / Fall themed cake for this weeks tutorial. I love the colours of Autumn and all the fallen leaves so thought it would be fun to add these onto a cake. In ...

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 ...