Moist & Durable Cake for 3-D and Carved Cakes

This cake can be made in many flavor combinations, but I used vanilla as the example. Chocolate cake/pudding can be used as well as White cake/coconut or banana pudding, Vanilla cake/white...

Just simply 'hello'...................

I’ve been wanting to blog for a while. Cakes are my passion or my ‘cake porn’ as the other half would say. I’m working on some cakes I’ve done before this week. One for an engagement, the other...

20 000 Cakes? When? Take a guess and win!

I posted an announcement of the Cake Decorator of the Week yesterday and ConceptualConfection added a comment that inspired me to do a competition. Rules: Post a comment to this thread with...

Cupcake Bouquet Step-by-step

As this is a question I get asked quite a bit, I decided to photo my latest cupcake bouquet every step of the way to show exactly how it’s done. It’s fairly easy to do and by using different...

New CakesDecor Features #2: Cake Decorator of the Week

10 000 cakes! Are you kidding?? If you told me 5 months ago, when we were launching this website, that there will be 10 000 cakes posted in March I would think you are insane. And now…here it is!...

"Lots of questions"

I need some ideas on how to make a pirite ship cake for my Grandsons 10th BD party. Is it easier to use fondent or gumpaste to make fiagures?

CakesDecor.com Cake Themes #3: Ruffle Cakes

homemade silicone mold #2: BORDER tutorial

The previous silicone mold tutorial dealt with creating silicone impression of buttons, cameo and other decorative ornaments you can put on the side of a cake. In this series, we will be talking...

CakesDecor Tutorials Contest #6: And the Winner is ...

First I would like to thank all of you who decided to enter our Tutorials Contest by posting a tutorial. Also I would like to thank to our sponsors, who donated the prizes and make the contest...

Isomalt Coral

I am not an expert at this by any means. I have just done a ton of trial and lots of errors so I wanted to share what I learned so far. If anyone has anymore tips please let me know and I will...

Interview #2: Way Beyond Cakes by Mayen

1. How did you first get started with cake decorating? I got into cake decorating by accident… It was not something I went to school for, not something I willingly sought out. I ordered a...

How to Make Tiki Heads

Last week I needed a luau-themed sweet treat to feed a crowd, so I decided to make mini cupcakes with tiki head toppers made out of chocolate rolled fondant. This is a lot of fun and very...