Witch Cauldron Cake - how to make an amazing Halloween cauldron cake that looks like bubbling witches' brew with black buttercream, green ganache and gummy candies. A new tutorial by our contributor Whitney DePaoli. It’s the season of spooky desserts and I could not be more excited about it! I look forward to Halloween every year because it seems to bring about a wild sense of creativity and endless inspiration, especially when it comes to cake. This year I’m all about this Witch ... Continue Reading
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Chocolate Fireworks Cake
Chocolate Fireworks Cake - how to make red, white and blue fireworks out of chocolate for a patriotic 4th of July cake. A new cake tutorial by our contributor, Erin Gardner. I’m typically a believer that Independence Day cakes should be super easy, super delicious, and loads of fun to make. It is a day off for most, after all. The bursting, chocolate fireworks on this cake may look like they violate this rule, but trust me, they check all the boxes! If you’ve been sitting on ... Continue Reading
Candy Succulent Cake
Candy Succulent Cake - how to make a succulent cake with edible candy succulents. A new cake tutorial by our contributor, Erin Gardner. I must confess, I have a succulent problem. I really do! Every time I come across a new-to-me variety at the garden store, straight into the cart it goes. I can’t help myself. Don’t you just want to squeeze those juicy little petals!? The shapes, the colors, the easy care instructions of these pretty desert plants -- I love all things ... Continue Reading
Painted Buttercream Flower Cake
Painted Buttercream Flower Cake - how to paint buttercream flowers on a cake using a palette knife. A new tutorial by our contributor Whitney DePaoli. This time of year, I can’t help but be inspired by all the beautiful blooms. They make me want to incorporate flowers into all of my cake designs, and there’s no easier way than with this buttercream painted floral technique! All you need is a smooth frosted cake, a beautiful buttercream color scheme, and a few palette knives to get the ... Continue Reading
Rainbow Mosaic Cake
Rainbow Mosaic Cake - how to make a pastel rainbow M&M cake with an eye-catching geometric pattern. A new tutorial by our contributor Whitney DePaoli. In my humble opinion, Easter is the BEST time of year for candy. Not only is it tastier than ever (hello, Cadbury Mini Eggs!), but the pastel colors have me all starry-eyed and inspired! As I was recently browsing the Easter candy aisle, I couldn’t help but get all hung up on the seasonal color palette that M&Ms have got going on. ... Continue Reading
Easter Bunny Cupcakes
Easter Bunny Cupcakes - how to make adorable bunny cupcakes with easy chocolate ears. A new tutorial by our contributor Erin Gardner. With Easter just a hop, skip, and a jump away, I decided it was time to work my magic at updating a classic - bunny ear cupcakes! I’ve seen fondant ears, marshmallow ears, and piped chocolate ears, but never smeared ears like we have right here. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself.) If you’ve been following along with my chocolate adventures for any length of ... Continue Reading
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
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
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 St. Patrick’s Day Treats
It's finally March! And how can we NOT be excited about all the wonderful occasions this month brings? Soon we'll welcome the official first day of spring, the weather will turn, flowers will sprout, schools will be out for spring break and then Easter will arrive. Doesn't all of that just sound marvelous? But first things first. Saint Patrick's Day! Growing up with a red-headed Irish grandmother, we knew that green was mandatory on St. Patrick's Day... or you would pay the price in pinches. ... 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
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
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
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
Fourth of July
EATON MESS CAKE BERRIES AND CREAM CUPCAKES FIREWORKS CAKE RED WHITE & BLUE DESSERTS LEMON BLUEBERRY CAKE PATRIOTIC PINWHEELS STRAWBERRY SWIRL CAKE CHEESECAKE SHOTS STRAWBERRY PICKING VINTAGE PATRIOTIC CAKE LEMON BLUEBERRY CUPCAKES PINWHEEL COOKIES COOKIE DOUGH ICE CREAM SAMMY STRAWBERRY THYME CAKE AMERICANA QUILT CAKE RED WHITE & BLUE STRAWBERRY MATCHA CAKE ROASTED BLUEBERRY ... Continue Reading
White Chocolate Flower Cake
White Chocolate Flower Cake – how to make a side statement flower, using candy melts and everyday tools. A new tutorial by our contributor, Erin Gardner! Create a simple, but chic statement bloom for your next cake with just a few ingredients and no special tools! It’s no secret at this point that I love making chocolate flowers. They're gorgeous, easy to make, and delicious - what’s not to love? After I shared this chocolate flower cake last year, so many of you have topped cakes ... Continue Reading
Striped Buttercream Cake
How to Make a Striped Buttercream Cake. A new tutorial by our contributor, Erin Gardner! Supplies: 6” round cake, crumb coated 6 cups of buttercream Soft gel paste food color Piping bags Bench scraper or large icing spatula Revolving Cake Turntable Offset spatula Make a batch of your favorite buttercream frosting. Either a meringue based buttercream or a basic crusting buttercream will work. Divide frosting into three portions and tint to your desired colors. I chose dark pink, ... Continue Reading
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