Who can resist these cute turtle cake toppers? They are very easy to make and you can even scale the size down if you want to use them as a cupcake topper. You can mix the color combination as you like. Cant wait to get started? Here is my tutorial on how to make a…
Cake stand photos wanted
So many have loved and used the tutorial on how to make this cake stand and some of you have even send me fantastic photos so that I could see how it looked when it was finished. So I thought it would be a great idea to make a gallery with the cake stands that…
The Cupcake Fairy Topper
First let me say congratulation to Sandra (socake) who won the Fairy theme Throw Down at the flickr Bake-off group. Sandra made a fantastic fairy who crashed in the frosting. Love it! I made this little sweet fairy and yes she is very small just over 2″ high. I made her out of modelling paste…
Flawless Fondant DVD review
It was with excitement that I received the three dvd’s (Perfecting the art of buttercream, Successful Stacking and Flawless Fondant) from the talented cake designer Sharon Zambito. I decided to start off with the Flawless Fondant DVD as I decorate most of my cakes with fondant.
Cookie templates
If you like, you can download your own copy of the cookie templates, from me to you. They are easy to cut out with a small sharp knife on cold cookie dough. Note: It is a good idea to transfer the templates to cardboard paper or laminate them so that they last longer. You can…
Happy Birthday CakeJournal
A whole year has gone by and a lot has happend since I started writing on CakeJournal. A new fantastic design for the site and loads of emails in my mail box every day with all kinds of cake decorating questions and great comments on my gallery pages. I have also been so lucky to…
How to Line a Cake Tin (Tutorial)
Are you tired of using lots of time cleaning up your cake tins after you are done baking? I know I am, so I like to line my cake tins when I bake my cakes because it prevents the cake to stick to the cake tin and makes the cleaning a lot easier. Here is…
Gift Box Cake
This gift box cake was made for the annual danish cake competition held by a danish cake craft store. It is quite small and cosy, but I meet with a lot of my danish cake friends for a nice “cake chat”.
Cake bites
I had some cake scraps from the wedding cake so I decided to make some pretty cake bites to indulge with my afternoon tea. Cake bites is made out of cake scraps (I used chocolate cake) and is mixed with either buttercream, cream cheese frosting or chocolate ganache until it looks likes a sticky “dough”…