Tips on making basic facial features

Here’s our weekly serving of tips, and today we offer you our method that we call skinning.

Pictorial Step-by Step party bulldog

We want to share a tip every Sunday, so here’s this Sunday’s share! This is a pictorial step-by-step of a party bulldog carved cake. I hope it is useful xxx

How to make a nest - picture tutorial

This summer is making us a bit lazy hehe we´ve got lots of photos to post oh my :0 But as we promised…… Here´s this Sunday´s tutorial ;) Estamos un poco vagonetas este verano jeje tenemos muchas...

Tip on how to make the Golden Snitch Wings

For today´s step by step we need: - CARVING TOOLS - FLEXI-CARVE SILICONE CARVING PLATES - PENCIL - EXACTO CUTTER - MODELLING FONDANT - GOLD PIGMENT as you see easy peasy ;)...

A Bite of Buttercream #15: Buttercream Wreath Class - April 17th 2016

After months of planning (and stressing!), the day finally arrived for my first ever Buttercream Class! How exciting!! My beautiful students, Robyn, Angel, Sophia, Kat, Ronya, and Grace, were...

A Bite of Buttercream #13: Prepping and Crumb Coating a Cake

True beauty starts from the inside, whether it’s a person or a cake, and my aim at Viva La Buttercream, is to inspire a little of both. Any cake made with love is perfect on it’s own, but if...

Making Modelling Chocolate

One of the beauties of Modelling Chocolate (I find) is it allows you more time to detail your work, and spend more time modelling in contrast to fondant and the other sugar-pastes which (for me) ...

Interview #41: Isabel Tamargo from Tartas Imposibles

Isabel’s: CakesDecor Profile | Website | Facebook | Pinterest Interview 1. Tell us a little about yourself, family, where do you live and what did you do for a living before making cakes if...

A Bite of Buttercream #11: Perfect Layers

Perfect, even layers. They look good huh? But just how do you get them? Sorcery? Well possibly, but let’s stick to the easy way! There are numerous ways you can layer (Torte) your cake, but...

A Bite of Buttercream #10: Using a Silicone Mold with Buttercream

Using Buttercream in a mold?? Sorcery!! Well no actually, it’s easier than you might think, and opens up a whole world of design and decoration opportunities. As well as...

Best Cupcake ever

My famous FTMB, thats right, French Toast Maple Bacon. First and foremost you need bacon!!! For the love of Pete NOT bacon bits, you need bacon, from a pig not a turkey either….. Anyways, moving...