This cake is pure romance. Lillian and her niece Tracey wanted to surprise Tracey’s parents who were renewing their wedding vows after 30 years of marriage. They had sent me a photo of a cake they liked, a two-tiered square cake with red ribbon roses running up one corner of the cakes. Lillian and her […] Read more…
Sarah and Rod were married in beautiful setting: New York City’s Central Park! They chose to have a non-traditional wedding, with a picnic lunch after the ceremony, organized by wedding planner A Central Park Wedding. The weather was fabulous, albeit a little bit warm by cake standards – a sunny 90 degrees. But there was […] Read more…
I just got back from a fabulous gum paste flower class given by the extremely talented Jacqueline Butler of Petalsweet Cakes in San Francisco. I’ve been admiring her work for a couple of years since I first saw it online. She makes the most fabulous sugar peonies, hydrangeas and a variety of other flowers – […] Read more…
We certainly are having an amazing March, with spring-like weather even though the calendar still says “Winter” for a few more days. Influenced by this nice weather and thoughts of my yard bursting into bloom in the coming weeks, I was inspired to make another display cake full of flowers. This cake is covered with […] Read more…
This lacy decoration is technically very demanding, and extremely time consuming – but the effect is dramatic. It is also extremely fragile, and adding one element to the cake can cause others to break! It is a type of cake decoration that was developed in Australia, and is formally known as the “Lambeth” method. Read more…
These roses, peonies, carnations, and hydrangeas are made out of a sugar dough called gum paste! Read more…