Here we go: as promised, here is the second of three cakes I made last weekend! This vintage-inspired pink wedding shower cake has piped buttercream ruffles and a gumpaste peony. The top tier is smooth-iced buttercream. It’s a bit hard to see in the photos, but I dusted the flower with some edible gold lustre dust… Read More
In continuing the theme of buttercream cakes, here is another I did recently! This technique is called petal effect, and the term for the graduated colour is “ombre”. Sounds fancy, huh? 🙂 What do you think? Do you prefer this petal effect, or the piped rosette cake I posted last week? They were both fun… Read More
I made this pretty rosette cake for a recent birthday. The piped buttercream rosettes were actually quite quick to do, but I love how they turned out. So did the birthday girl, actually – so much so that her mom ordered another exactly the same a week later! (Not that you need an excuse to… Read More
I didn’t make any New Year’s Resolutions this year. Who wants to resolve to lose weight when there’s still all that Christmas chocolate around to be eaten? Not me!! Anyway, I did make a couple of February resolutions, one of which was to take better photos of my cakes. You’d think that since I do… Read More
For this post, I decided to take two mini-posts and smush them together, because more is always better when it comes to cake. The first cake I’ll feature here is a pink polka-dot birthday cake I made for a friend of mine. She was turning 25, and sadly I was unable to make her birthday… Read More
