Tutorial #6: Candle Cake
Bauble Cakes #1: How to make a bauble cake
My friends, I am sharing with you all part 1 of my video tutorial on how I made some of the BAUBLE CAKES shown on the photos above. I’ve made BAUBLE CAKES using RKT, baked half sphere cakes and the “cake pop technique”. In this video, I will be showing you all how to make bauble cakes using the “cake pop technique” which in my opinion is the easiest way of making bauble cakes specially for beginners. Bauble cakes are great for Christmas themed individu...
Making a chocolate base for a Giant cupcake
You will need Silicone Spatula Giant cupcake mould (silicone) White Chocolate – 300gms A fridge LOL Colouring to your desired choice A little patience Firstly bake your Giant cupcake, allow to cool and set to one side. I use a silicone mould for my giant cupcakes, I find them much more versatile than the metal tins and much easier. I also dont use Candy melts because a few people say that they are far too sweet, I stick with White chocolate and providing tha...
create a sugar paste doll's face
I’m not very good with English so let talk about the pictures, I hope they are understandable. If you have any questions I will be happy to answer them as best I can
Elf on the Shelf cake topper tutorial
My household is obsessed with The Elf on the Shelf this time of year so I had to turn the little guy into a cake topper. I took some photos along the way! I have several homemade face molds from my daughter’s dolls. I thought this Lemon Meringue one was around the right size and shape. You simply make the face mold by impressing the doll face in gumpaste and allowing it to dry hard. You can then use it as a mold. Here I’ve pressed a flesh tone ball of fondant/gumpast...
CakesDecor.com Cake Themes #12: Christmas Cakes
Christmas is coming and we’re bringing you the list of some Christmas themed cakes posted on our website recently. I hope it will be a great source of inspiration for this years christmas cakes. If you know about any other Christmas cakes posted on CakesDecor that are not in the list, feel free to embed them in comments below. Check the short tutorial how to embed a cake here.
Modelling in sugar #1: Sleeping Santa Baby Tutorial
Here’s my video tutorial for making a sleeping baby in a Santa outfit. It can be made in sugarpaste/ modelling paste/ modelling chocolate/ marzipan. The sizes of the body parts relate to the size of the head, so it could be made small enough for cupcakes or larger for bigger cakes by simply adjusting the sizes of the head/ head mould. I hope you like the video!
How to make a Gumpaste carnation`
Please bare with me this is the first tutorial i have ever done (minus posting it on my own page) To start with you will need 1 egg cup or if you are better equipped then a flower former 1 flower leaf shaper tool 1 foam pad 1 sharp knife or scissors 1 paintbrush A little water Some greese proof paper And quite obviously the most important thing of all… Gumpaste Start with 4 pieces of gumpaste all around the same size. You can weigh these although i just estimate Make yo...
CakesDecor Cupcake Themes #2: Christmas Cupcakes
After successful Christmas themed Cakes, I thought we should show you some of the Christmas themed cupcakes posted on our website recently as well. I hope it will be a great source of inspiration for this years christmas cupcakes. I’m planning to show you Christmas Cookies next week, so feel free to post yours as well ;) If you know about any other Christmas cupcakes posted on CakesDecor that are not in the list, feel free to embed them in comments below.Check the short tutorial how ...
