I've partnered up with Cakes.com to bring you inspiration for a fairytale Cinderella birthday plus a new buttercream ruffle cake tutorial. Today's cake is fit for a princess. Specifically speaking - a little princess who loves fairytales, super frilly ruffles and all things magical! I know a Cinderella lover or two and I'm guessing you do too. This cake takes me back to when I sold custom cakes professionally, long before The Cake Blog even existed. Summertime was the season of ... Continue Reading
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Bakery Tour : Butter Bakery
Join us today for a Bakery Tour! We're hanging out with one of our favorite bakers and taking an inside peek at bakery life! Bakery Name: Butter Bakery & Cafe Location: 4907 Mackenzie Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Years in Business: 8 years Meet The Owner: Rosie Daykin Butter Bakery has been a neighborhood favorite in a charmingly quaint neighborhood of Vancouver, BC for nearly a decade. Not only does Butter Bakery itself invite you in with its instantly nostalgic pastel ... Continue Reading
Raspberry Earl Grey Cake
Our contributor, Tessa Huff, is sharing a new cake recipe today... Have you ever been to a proper high tea? The kind with mini sandwiches, bite-sized desserts, and of course - tea? I finally had the chance to go with my mom over the holidays and it was magical. We were presented with an array of premium teas in a gorgeous wooden box upon arrival, followed by a tower of treats placed on our table. We chatted while we slowly savored each perfectly prepared bite and sipped our tea. ... Continue Reading
Cookie Moss Cake
Cookie Moss Cake - how to make edible moss from cookie dough. Top spring and Easter cakes, woodland cakes or a birthday cake for your favorite gardener! I absolutely love the look of real moss and find myself adding touches of green to every corner of my home. Maybe it's because green is a symbol of life and renewal, commonly associated with spring and Easter. Maybe it's because I'm obsessed with the modern farmhouse look right now, dreaming of a super white kitchen with calming grey ... Continue Reading
Lemon Meringue Cake
This Lemon Meringue Cake is bright, fresh and sure to impress! Lemon poppy seed cake with lemon curd and toasted meringue frosting. A new layer cake recipe by our contributor, Tessa Huff. While some of us are enjoying an early spring, others may still be in the middle of one of the worst winters in decades. Either way, we can all find happiness in this sunny cake. Fortunately for everyone, winter citrus are in abundance this time of year, with bright, lively lemons everywhere. I ... Continue Reading
Candy Flower Cake
Our contributor, Erin Gardner of Erin Bakes, is back with a new tutorial today! Join along as she shares a new cake project with a step-by-step tutorial. Spring is coming! Or at least that’s what I keep telling myself as I stare out of my window at mounds of snow. Until the real blossoms start popping, I’ll settle for the next best thing - bright, bold, and tasty candy flowers. Today we're decorating a cake with chewy candy flowers made from Airheads and Laffy Taffy! Airheads and ... Continue Reading
Valentine’s Heart Candy Box Cake
Valentine's Heart Candy Box Cake! Learn how to make this romantic Valentine's Day cake that looks just like a heart-shaped box of chocolates with a simple step-by-step tutorial by our contributors, Mary and Brenda Maher of Cakegirls. Okay, there is just no way around stating that this cake is a kind of a show stopper. People will assume it's a real box of chocolates (well, it kind of is) but at least they won't know that the box is actually made out of cake. By separating the ... Continue Reading
2015 Wedding Cake Trends : Hand-Painted Details
It's day five of our brand new cake series - The 2015 Wedding Cake Preview! We're spending two weeks oohing and aahing over marvelous cake designs and getting the scoop on 2015 cake trends from the ladies who know. Top cake designers were asked to predict which cake trends will be hot in 2015. Based on their insights, this talented group got busy creating innovative new cakes, exclusively for this cake series and especially for you! I hope you'll join us as we debut a new trend-inspired ... Continue Reading
2015 Wedding Cake Trends : Organic Patterns
Yesterday we started a brand new cake series - The 2015 Wedding Cake Preview! We're spending the next two weeks oohing and aahing over marvelous cake designs and getting the scoop on 2015 cake trends from the ladies who know. Top cake designers were asked to predict which cake trends will be hot in 2015. Based on their insights, this talented group got busy creating innovative new cakes, exclusively for this cake series and especially for you! I hope you'll join us as we debut a new ... Continue Reading
2015 Wedding Cake Trends
We're kicking off 2015 with a brand new cake series - and it's all about trends for the upcoming year! What better way to spend our January than oohing and aahing over marvelous cake designs while we get the scoop on trends from the ladies who know. Here's how it all came together: Top cake designers were asked to predict what cake trends will be hot in 2015. Based on their insights, this talented group got busy creating innovative new cakes, exclusively for this cake series and especially ... Continue Reading
Sprinkle New Years Eve Cake
Sprinkle New Years Eve Cake - how to make a sparkly NYE cake using a free stencil template and sprinkles. Updated with a 2019 template! Hello friends! I hope you're enjoying the holiday season so far and that your Christmas was a merry one! I'm popping in for one last cake tutorial for the year, just in time for your New Years Eve celebration. I know, I know! Talk about last minute planning! But surely I'm not the only one who looks up and realizes that NYE is a day away. Anyone ... Continue Reading
Pie Crust Cookies
Pie Crust Cookies! Pie crust coated in cinnamon sugar and rolled into pinwheel cookies for the holidays. A Christmas cookie tradition. We all have those family recipes - the ones that are made year after year, lovingly passed from one generation to the next - and scarfed down in about 3 seconds flat. The ones that you'd throw down with your own sister for, if she tried to snatch the last one. This is one of those recipes. We affectionately call these little babies Pie Crust ... Continue Reading
Bakery Tour : Jenna Rae Cakes
Today is the first post our brand new series : Bakery Tours! We're hanging out with some of our favorite bakers and cake designers, taking an inside peek at bakery life! Bakery Name: Jenna Rae Cakes Location: 580 Academy Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Years in Business: 4 years - storefront opened in 2014 Meet The Team: Jenna : Founder | Co-Owner | Cake Designer | Twin Sister Ashley : Co-Owner | Head Baker | Graphic Designer and Photo Stylist | Twin Sister Chelsea : ... Continue Reading
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Lyndsay Sung : Contributor
Lyndsay Sung grew up with a love of cakes, pastries and all things buttercream rose-covered. She first discovered the wonders of baking herself after receiving a pink Kitchen Aid stand mixer as a wedding present from her grandma. Once that motor started running, the obsession with baking and subsequently cake decorating began! Starting off in the gentle world of cupcakes, Lyndsay started her tiny cake business back in 2008 and documented all of her cakes and projects on her blog Coco Cake ... Continue Reading
What’s Happening!
Hello sweet friends! I just wanted to pop in tonight and give you a little insight on everything happening around here lately! It's been weeks since our last post and that is just waaay too long, isn't it?! But I'm happy to say that new posts will be coming at you again, starting tomorrow, and the lineup over the next several weeks is looking pretty amazing! We have a ton of exciting things on the horizon and the view from here is filled in rainbow sprinkles. Our ever growing team is ... Continue Reading
Banana Choco Hazelnut Cake
Our contributor, Tessa Huff, is sharing a chocolate hazelnut cake recipe. Banana cake with chocolate ganache filling and chocolate hazelnut buttercream. It's the peak of summer, and I am sure we are all starting to feel the heat. You are most likely reaching for all your favorite frozen treats every afternoon. One of my favorites is a frozen chocolate-dipped banana. Yumm! I've been seeing recipes for bite-sized varieties pop up on several of the desserts blogs lately, so I was ... Continue Reading
Black & White Polka Dot Cake
Happy Monday! We're starting off the week on a bright note with a feature that is all about patterns and pop. Black and white is such a bold color scheme, full of contrast and oh-so-crisp. It is a classic combo that can stand on its own or can easily mingle with softer hues. While we often see black and white paired with pinks and corals, today's cake proves that black and white is up for anything. Even an eye catching pop of yellow! Now add in some stripes, polka dots and an abundance of ... Continue Reading
TRENDING : Geometric Patterns
Our contributor, Erica OBrien, owner of Erica OBrien Cake Design, is back for her next post in our new series called Trending. Erica is helping us translate today's top trends in fashion, design, art and everyday life into fabulous cake designs. Watch each month as she goes from inspiration on pinterest to cake concept and then the final cake design. With this insider look into her creative process, we hope you'll start to see inspiration everywhere in world around you. Today we're talking ... Continue Reading
DIY : Easter Bunny Garden
Easter is just a few days away but there's still plenty of time for today's DIY. Who can resist an adorable bunny tail, all fluffy and white? Especially when it's ridiculously cute like today's featured tutorial! This little cupcake garden is filled with whimsical fondant bunnies, frilly cabbage and carrots. And dare I say, it's hoppin' with fun. It all comes to us from the fabulous new book, Sweet and Unique Cupcake Toppers by Lynlee Beckett of Lynlee's Petite Cakes. Lynlee is a ... Continue Reading
How To Build a Cake Like a Pro
Decorating a cake is sort of like solving a puzzle. There are numerous pieces that have to come together, just so, for everything to align beautifully. The process itself can be exciting, challenging and even a little exasperating at times. But when the last piece is finally placed, you can step back and smile at what you've accomplished. So today we're taking a look at some of the basic fundamentals of a gorgeous cake. These building blocks apply to cakes of all shapes and sizes and will ... Continue Reading
Easter Basket Cake
Okay friends, are you ready for new cake tutorial? I'm starting to think I have a thing for Easter cakes. You may have caught my Chocolate Bunny Cake from last week or my Speckled Egg Cake from last year. Well, today I have another new springtime cake for you. This time we're taking old-school basketweave and giving it a sleek and modern update. Inspired by the beautiful grapevine baskets that I keep seeing in my favorite stores. You know the baskets I'm talking about, right? Thin spindly ... Continue Reading
Petite Apple Desserts
It's a beautiful day! We're starting off another fabulous week of cake inspiration with a dessert table that is filled to the brim with natural charm... and apples! Today's feature comes to us from Emily Lael Aumiller of Lael Cakes in Brooklyn. We're still swooning over Emily's gorgeous Chanel Meets Brooklyn table from last week (catch it here), so we're definitely excited to welcome this talented baker back to the blog again today. This time the look is rustic yet elegant in tones of soft ... Continue Reading
Top Recipes of 2013
Happy New Year! I can hardly believe what I'm about to type... but 2014 is here! It's time to kick off another new year of cake inspiration and, as always, the months ahead are full of fabulous things to come. While I'm anxious to see everything that 2014 has in store, I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to last year. The past twelve months were filled to the brim with new recipes, DIY's and tutorials, new cake designs and dessert tables. And we simply can't let an incredible year like 2013 ... Continue Reading
The 10th Cake of Christmas
It's our third annual holiday series.... The 12 Cakes of Christmas!! We're oohing and aahing over twelve marvelous cake designs, created especially for this series! All brand new, never seen before, and created by some of your favorite bakers! For our theme this year, we're taking a moment to reflect on our favorite Christmas memories and traditions. It's a feel good month, celebrating the little things that make this season shine bright. Each of our featured bakers was asked to create a ... Continue Reading
Recipe: Marshmallow Snowflakes
Happy Monday! It's December 16th and Christmas is less than 10 days away. I'm not sure why I felt the need to announce that... I know we all have calendars and can count. But for real! Christmas is less than 10 days away!! Today, we're jumping right back in to the holiday inspiration with a round up of creative projects that will have you ready for Christmas in no time flat. From cookies and candy to crafts and entertaining, we've got you covered. I've teamed up with a few of my friends ... Continue Reading
The 5th Cake of Christmas
It's our third annual holiday series.... The 12 Cakes of Christmas!! We're oohing and aahing over twelve marvelous cake designs, created especially for this series! All brand new, never seen before, and created by some of your favorite bakers! For our theme this year, we're taking a moment to reflect on our favorite Christmas memories and traditions. It's a feel good month, celebrating the little things that make this season shine bright. Each of our featured bakers was asked to create a ... Continue Reading