CakesDecor Gazette: Issue 4.01 / January 2015

Welcome to the Issue 4.01 / January 2015 of the CakesDecor Gazette  Click here to view the CD Gazette archives...

My new cake studio!

You lovelies have been with me from the very beginning so I wanted to share these photo’s with you. My hubby has been working very hard on converting our garage into a wonderful...

Wafer Paper LOTUS Tutorial by The Violet Cake Shop™

Merry Christmas Everyone!! I made a tutorial for how to recreate the wafer paper lotuses that I had on my Festival of Lights cake from October, for everyone as my Christmas gift. Hope you all...

CakesDecor Flashback 2014 #2: Member Voices

Cakesdecor has been a great source of information & inspiration, whether your a beginner or a pro, there is always some one to help you, or teach you some thing new, it’s a great source of...

Christmas Tree Ornament Cookies

Every year I try to do something different with my Christmas tree. I must admit I do have a bit of an addiction when it comes to decorating for Christmas. I’m not really sure why or how it...

New tagging system with autocomplete!

After implementing new search we noticed that lot of cakes, blogs, tutorials and forum topics don’t contain relevant tags. As a result of this, it is not possible to find these posts using our...

Cake with owls tutorial

I made this tutorial at the request of “Cake Courier” a blog of the newspaper “Corriere della Sera”, of course for me it was a great honor and it is with pleasure that I share it with you! I...

Sharks!

This shark was made with 4 … 10 inch rounds .. the only carving you do is in the snout and eye area… then ice and cover with fondant you can airbrush , but I always like to paint them :D ….....

New Search Fully Implemented Now!

I’m pretty sure that most of you already noticed the large Search Bar on the top of all pages. As Martin mentioned in the forum topic at the beginning of this week, he was working on it for a...

Dog tutorial

1. Preparation – I always use several pieces of polystyrene. This is how I achieve that the model has inside’s wooden stick long enough to be stable on a cake and also I do not...

Simple ANEMONE with Simple Tools (Gumpaste or Fondant)

I was asked by quite a few how I made the simple anemone featured on my Simple Black & White Polka Dot cake (see last photo) and realized I could not find any picture tutorials for anything...

Boeing 787 Dreamliner cake construction

My constructed cake board and my templates, I added extra height to the sides to allow room for the steel rods to come through underneath the board. I then cut out the aircraft template from...