covering a cake

How to Prepare & Cover a Cake with Icing / Fondant

Hi and welcome back to my kitchen. For me one of the most important things when it comes to making cakes is making sure you have a well covered cake as a base to add your design. Now I...

Marble Effect Fondant / Sugarpaste Cake Decorating Techniques Tutorial

Hi and welcome back to my kitchen. So a trend which is really popular at the moment, especially on wedding cakes is making part or all of your cake look like its made from marble. So...

How to COAT Square or Rectangle Shaped Cakes with Fondant

This is a continuation of a previous tutorial which Serdar made demonstrating how to mask a square or rectangular cake with ganache (link below). In this tutorial, Serdar shows how to coat a...

Covering a cake in fondant

And here’s the earlier ganached cake getting its fondant covering, specifically ‘Tropic’ from Massa Ticino, sharpened nicely with Shereens Cakes flexi smoothers....

How to Prepare and Cover a Polystyrene Cake Dummy Tutorial

Hi and welcome back to my kitchen. Polystyrene cake dummies come in so many shapes and sizes. They are a great way to add height to a tiered cake without adding more cake, create...

Covering Cakes with Buttercream using Acrylic Discs / Ganache Plates

Hi and welcome back to my kitchen. Do you ever struggle to get smooth sides on your buttercream frosting or ganache covered cakes. Do you find that they sometimes taper in at the...