cake art

Painted Vintage Paper Doll Cookies

For this week’s tutorial, I wanted to push my painting techniques and paint Dolly Dingle paper dolls on 4.5 x3-inch royal icing covered cookies. To my delight, I discovered paper dolls are not...

Buttercream Yule Log cake & Tree stump cake tutorials

Hi all, here’s my take on the famous Yule log, complete with piped pine cones, mini mushrooms, pine branches & festive red berries. Enjoy! The design is based on the most popular...

Vintage Provençal Key Cookies

I was looking through some of my Grandmother’s “treasures”and came across several antique Provençal keys (she left to me prior to passing). Then I remember my grandmother always proclaimed my...

Royal Icing Antique Marbled Cookies with a Piped Roses Spray

These cookies were made for a client who wanted cookies favors that matched her invitations colours! I created these inspired antique marbled cookies using a wet on wet technique and a flower...

Buttercream Peony Bas Relief Wedding Cake for ACD Magazine

Hi all, This is my latest – a blue peony buttercream 3 tier number for ACD Magazine’s buttercream issue (April 2017 – out now). There’s a free video tutorial and peony piping pictorial up, I...

How to Create Vintage Sarah Kay Easter Cookies

I am excited to share this week’s tutorial, I love dimensional pressure piping on cookies. Sarah Kay designs are a favorite of mine, and cookies are a wonderful canvas for this method. ...

How to Decorate a Hand Painted Rose Plaque Cookie

I love painting on royal icing (and fondant as well). Therefore, I created these hand-painted rose plaque cookies. In this video, I will show how to pipe the mini plaque royal icing transfers,...

Beautiful Bouquets #5: Red berry, ranunculus & rose buttercream wreath cake

Hi all, The final cake of this series and my personal favourite, a red berry, ranunculus, “snow white” dahlia and rosebud crescent wreath cake tutorial. More details are in the blog post,...

Inspired Vintage Dimensional Peter Rabbit Cookie Cards

For this week’s video tutorial I am going to take you through, step by step, dimensional pressure piping a bunny for these cookie cards. An exciting revelation happened when I was decorating...

Inspired Pierre Joeüt New Year’s Eve Cookies

Last year I decorated inspired Pierre Joeüt Belle Epoque Rose cutout New Year’s Champagne Cookies. This year I decided to create a similar design, without using special cookie cutters, I...