Pumpkin Cupcakes 8 Ways - Eight ways to decorate a pumpkin cupcake with buttercream frosting. Learn how to pipe rosette pumpkins, short pumpkins, tall pumpkins, easy pumpkins and frilly pumpkins! Even though Halloween has come and gone, there's no reason to end our relationship with everything pumpkin. Especially when Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away. We have a vast selection of pumpkin recipes here on the blog and more than a few delicious pumpkin cupcakes (like this classic ... Continue Reading
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Animal Skeleton Cake
Animal Skeleton Cake - a carousel cake full of spooky animal cracker skeletons, with a playful sugar skull vibe. A new Halloween / Day of the Dead tutorial by our contributor Erin Gardner. Halloween is my favorite holiday, because it’s all about having fun. I love cutesie-spooky things and tend to shy away from the more realistic and gory side of the day. This is why I’m going to ask you to come along with me and take some artistic liberties when it comes to skeletal accuracy. I ... Continue Reading
Caramel Apple Decorated Cookies
Caramel Apple Cookies - how to decorate caramel apple cookies. A fall sugar cookie tutorial created by our contributors, ellenJAY. Once the air turns crisp we know fall is on our doorstep and apple season is finally here! And when we think of apples we can't help but dream of apple pie, homemade apple donuts, comforting warm apple cakes straight out of the oven with a huge scoop of ice cream and of course, caramel apples! Our caramel apple cookies are the perfect treat for fall ... Continue Reading
Spiderweb Cake
Spiderweb Cake - how to carve buttercream icing to make a spooky spiderweb cake design. So easy and no need to pipe! A new Halloween tutorial by our contributor Erin Gardner. As I’ve stated a number of times in many other cake decorating tutorials, I’m not a fan of piping. I envy those with a steady hand and firm resolve to pipe, but I am not one of them. So when I had the idea for a simple but spooky Halloween cake involving a sparkly candy spider, I had to figure out how to make a web ... Continue Reading
Buttercream Palette Knife Painted Cake
Buttercream Palette Knife Painted Cake - learn how to paint a cake using buttercream frosting, a spatula and an oil painting technique. A new cake tutorial by our contributor Erin Gardner. Palette knife painting is traditionally done by smearing dabs of oil based paint on canvas or wood using the blade of a palette knife. The result is a painting that is textured, dimensional, and kind of looks like buttercream! Superstar cake makers like Sweet Bloom Cakes and Queen of Hearts Couture ... Continue Reading
10 Football Party Desserts
Football season is officially here! And I, for one, could not be more excited! In my house, we're big fans of college football and everything that goes with it. The rivalries, the tailgating, the fanatical superstitions that seem crazy (unless of course, they work) and the general excitement that comes when your team dominates. It's one of the best parts of fall and this past weekend we dove right back in. Now, I know not everyone is a fan of football. But you have to admit that any ... Continue Reading
Hamburger & Hot Dog Cookies
Hamburger & Hot Dog Cookies - how to make adorable hamburger and hot dog cookies. So fun for parties and BBQs! A sugar cookie decorating tutorial created by our contributors, ellenJAY. With the holiday weekend approaching, it's time to fire up the grill! There’s nothing better than having an outdoor BBQ on a hot summer night with friends and family in the back yard. And of course our go to favorites to throw on the grill are hamburgers for the adults and hot dogs for the kiddos! ... Continue Reading
Sunflower Cake
Sunflower Cake - how to make gorgeous sunflower cake decorations using melted chocolate and a knife. A new tutorial by our contributor Erin Gardner. I love chocolate flowers (newsflash) and I love sunflowers. However, I’ve never really loved making chocolate sunflowers or using them to decorate cakes. The flat flower shape always felt limiting. My options were either stick the flower directly onto the side of the cake or perch it flat on top looking like some sort of futuristic ... Continue Reading
Pinwheel Cookies
Pinwheel Cookies -- red, white and blue pinwheel cookies on a stick. A fun Fourth of July dessert, created by our contributors, ellenJAY. Cue the Red, White and Blue because we’ve got the perfect Fourth of July cookies for you! Our playful polka dotted and striped Pinwheel Cookie Pops are a sweet addition to your Independence Day celebrations. Inspired by pinwheel yard spinners and these pinwheel cupcakes, these whimsical cookies are perfectly patriotic with a modern twist on the ... Continue Reading
TV Dinner Sheet Cake
TV Dinner Sheet Cake! Learn how to make this old school, frozen TV dinner sheet cake -- perfect for Father's Day and/or April Fool's Day -- with a simple step-by-step tutorial by our contributors, Mary and Brenda Maher of Cakegirls. It's Father's Day and when it comes to making a cake, we think we can do a whole lot better than that generic shirt and tie cake for our Dad ...ugh. In fact, our Dad never even wore a tie to work. Our Dad is warm and funny and not at all generic, so we thought ... Continue Reading
Chocolate Lily of the Valley
Chocolate Lilies - how to make Lily of the Valley cake decorations with chocolate. A new tutorial by our contributor Erin Gardner. After months of snow falling outside my window, the first day of spring came and went. While it still does not feel like spring, these delicate chocolate lily of the valley are helping to make me a believer. They would certainly warm up a spring birthday, shower or Mother's Day brunch. The technique for these tiny blooms was inspired by the ... Continue Reading
Bunny Face Cookies
Bunny Face Cookies - how to make sugar cookie pops decorated with adorable bunny faces, the perfect Easter treat for little kids and big kids alike. Hip, hop hooray spring is finally here! For some it might mean play dates at the park, picking wild flowers for mom, shorts and flip flops, or even allergy season. For us it means lots and lots of spring and Easter sugar cookies! And when we think of Easter of course a big white bunny comes to mind. Using one of our favorite cookie cutters ... Continue Reading
Spring Wreath Cake
Spring Wreath Cake - how to make a buttercream wreath cake with little decorative touches like a bird's nest, cherry blossoms, green berries and cookie moss. Beautiful for spring events like Easter, baby showers and Mother's Day. It seems as though I have a thing for Easter cakes. Over the last five years, I've made a new cake each spring specifically with the holiday in mind. It all started back in 2013 with my Speckled Egg Cake. That cake has definitely stood the test of time with ... Continue Reading
10 Cream Tart “Number Cakes”
Have you seen these trendy desserts floating all over social media? I'm not really sure what to call them exactly. Cream tart cakes? Cookie cakes? Number cakes? Letter cakes? I've seen them called everything and honestly I don't know if ANY of these names truly capture how incredible they are. I'm thinking 'amazing layered fruit cookie tart' comes close? Layers of pâte sablée, a French pastry dough that is crisp and cookie-like (aka tart crust) are filled with dollops of cream and topped with a ... Continue Reading
Watercolor Heart Cake
Watercolor Heart Cake - how to paint a watercolor heart cake using buttercream frosting and a parchment paper stencil. A fun and easy way to decorate a cake for Valentine's Day, birthdays or bridal showers. I'll be the first to say it - watercolor buttercream is not new. We first shared a tutorial with this technique back in 2013! But how can anyone tire of something so beautiful yet relatively easy to pull off? I thought we'd put a new spin on this tone-on-tone frosting with a little ... Continue Reading
Chocolate Tulip Cake
Chocolate Tulips - how to make gorgeous tulip cake decorations using melted chocolate and a plastic spoon! A new tutorial by our contributor Erin Gardner. The old chocolate-spoon-petal technique has lived in pastry chef’s tool boxes for years for a reason - it’s sooo good! Sculpting gum paste petals takes endless patience and practice. Piping buttercream blooms requires a steady hand, and you guess it, more practice. Making chocolate tulip petals requires none of that. This is a quick, ... Continue Reading
Sprinkle Ornament Cake
Sprinkle Ornament Cake – how to make sparkling ornaments for cakes and cupcakes using chocolate, cookie cutters and sprinkles. All that glitters is my sparkly sprinkle appliqué Christmas ornament cake! I’m giving this technique the fancy title of “sprinkle appliqués”, but it couldn’t be easier to make. I’ve used this layered sprinkle idea to create gorgeous cake flowers and other elegant shapes, like in the Lux Layers cake in my book, Erin Bakes Cake. With my sparkly ornament ... Continue Reading
Snow Globe Cookies
Snow Globe Cookies - Learn how to decorate sparkly, snow globe sugar cookies for the holidays with a simple step-by-step tutorial by our contributors, Mary and Brenda Maher of Cakegirls. When you're an enthusiast baker, like we all are, Christmas is game time and our time to shine. Occasional baking suddenly becomes daily baking and the idea of sharing our favorite recipes and honed skills brings joy to our hearts. In order to fit it all in, we made a better plan. Instead of making ... Continue Reading
Christmas Ornament Cakes
Christmas Ornament Cakes! Learn how to make these sparkly, mini ornament cakes with a simple step-by-step tutorial by our contributors, Mary and Brenda Maher of Cakegirls. We couldn't wait to get started on these sparkly Christmas Ornament Cakes. It's the time of year to kick things up a notch, be a little more thoughtful and pull out all the stops...even when you're making cakes. Individual cakes seem fitting because they're a bit more labor intensive, but feel really, really special. ... Continue Reading
Marbled Chocolate Leaves
Marbled Chocolate Leaves – how to make marbled leaf toppers for cakes and cupcakes using chocolate coating and cookie cutters. A new tutorial by our contributor Erin Gardner. I look forward to the arrival of fall colors every year. Living in northern New England means that somewhere around mid-September the leaves turn from shades of green to a rainbow of jewel tones. It’s spectacular, truly. Sometimes, though, I’m in the mood for something a little different. The addition of a little ... Continue Reading
Winter Buttercream Greenery
Winter Buttercream Greenery - how to pipe buttercream leaves, branches, pine and seasonal greenery fit for a wintry holiday cake. A new video tutorial! Today I'm showing you how to create the wintry buttercream decorations from this Eggnog Cake that I shared earlier in the week. Your response to the buttercream flowers on my Pumpkin Spice Cake inspired me to do something similar with this cake, only tweaked for the winter holidays. I love the look of fresh greenery mixed with wood toned ... Continue Reading
Eggnog Cake
Eggnog Cake - a rich eggnog cake with hints of cinnamon and nutmeg, paired with a creamy eggnog buttercream. A new holiday cake recipe, sponsored by Promised Land Dairy for their #FarFromOrdinaryMilk campaign. I realize it's only November but the weather is finally cooling down and my sweaters and tall boots are officially back in the wardrobe rotation. The chilly nights and frosty mornings only confirm that the holiday season will soon be upon us. And I could not help but to jump ... Continue Reading
Poison Apple Cake
Poison Apple Cake - a black mirror glaze cake with an edible "poison apple" for Halloween. Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? I don't know about you, but the evil witch in Snow White really gives me the creeps. And her poison apple with it's drippy monster face is like -- eesh! Which makes the whole eerie concept totally fitting for a Halloween cake, right?! I've had this idea floating around in my mind for two years now, so it's about time I finally make it. A ... Continue Reading
Chocolate Lollipop Ghosts
Chocolate Lollipop Ghosts - how to make edible lollipop ghosts for Halloween cakes and cupcakes using white chocolate and suckers. A new tutorial by our contributor Erin Gardner. Can you guess the source of inspiration for these hauntingly delicious lollipop ghosts? If you’ve ever trick-or-treated, odds are you’ve received a tissue or napkin-covered lollipop ghost at least once in your travels. Better odds, you probably got at least a few every year! This updated and completely edible ... Continue Reading
10 Halloween Cupcakes to Bake
Frightful, fun, fierce and.... fluffy? Halloween desserts come in all shapes, sizes and styles. Some are classic with traditional orange and black colors. Some are trendy and cool with lots of eyeballs! Some are too gruesome for words and some are purr-fectly cute! But to me, Halloween cupcakes are just about foolproof. Easy to transport, easy to serve, easy to clean up, perfectly portioned for kids of all ages. So I wanted to share some of my favorite ideas from my Halloween Pinterest Board. ... Continue Reading
Marbled Chocolate Cake
Marbled Chocolate Cake - how to wrap a cake with marbled chocolate. A tutorial from the new book, Erin Bakes Cake by our contributor, Erin Gardner! I have absolutely loved sharing fun, achievable, and delicious cake design projects with you here on The Cake Blog over the years. Now, I’m so excited to share with you two of the projects from my new book, Erin Bakes Cake! The chocolate wrap on this cake is part of my Potted Orchid Cake in the book. The fantasy chocolate flower is made ... Continue Reading
10 Fabulous Flamingo Treats
Flamingos, flamingos, everywhere. While this pretty pink bird enjoys an extended moment in the spotlight, first stealing our hearts two summers ago, it seems as though their staying power is almost as majestic as their whimsical legs and billowing feathers. And we simply can't help but bask in all the colorful summer vibes. Pink, tropical with a nod to retro, seriously what's not to love? So today we're taking a look at some of our favorite flamingo sweets. From flamingo cakes to flamingo ... Continue Reading
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