This beautiful cake is made by one of my flickr friends Amanda from Littel Rock, AR, USA. Amanda has told me that the purse cake was based on a cake from one of cake designer Colette Peters books: Colette’s birthday cakes. As I have a thing with pink and brown put together on cakes this…
Daisy and sprinkle cupcakes
Today it has been raining all day here in Copenhagen. To brighten up things a bit I made some vanilla cupcakes decorated with blue buttercream icing, sugar paste daisies and sugar sprinkles. I have bought a new cake book: Fairy Cakes by Joanna Farrow and I tried out her buttercream recipe on these cupcakes. It…
New mini heart cake pan set
The Silverwood bakeware line have made a new multi mini 2″ heart cake pan. Perfekt for making individual cakes for weddings, engagement and other celebrations. You can now bake 16 mini hearts in one go. I have a few different Silverwood cake pans myself and I am very pleased with them. You can find more…
Mermaid cake
Today I have made this mermaid cake. The cakes is covered in sugar paste. I have sponge painted the “rock” with gel colors and clear alcohol. The mermaids tail is modelled in sugar paste with CMC/Tylo powder and the body is modelled in marcipan mixed with a little sugar paste and some CMC/Tylo powder to…
Corn starch duster
I have made this little duster filled with corn starch. I use it when I am rolling out my sugar paste, making sugar flowers ect. That way the sugar paste wont stick to the board or rolling pin. You just tap it lightly on the surface before starting rolling. It is very easy to make,…
How to make a corn starch dusting bag
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a corn starch dusting bag.
Cupcakes with buttercream icing
Today I have been making cupcakes with buttercream. I used a vanilla pound cake and buttercream icing for the top.
Wedding cakes A Design Source – magazine review
This is a wedding cake magazine from Squires Group and it is published every third month. It is full of inspiring pictures of amazing wedding cakes. You will find classic and simpel wedding cakes, mini cakes, cupcakes and divine chocolate wedding cakes with fresh fruites. You will also find readers projects on wedding cakes and…
Cakes & SugarCraft – magazine review
This is a magazine from Squires Group. It is published every third month. I like the fact that you can read and learn about different cake crafting projects like sugar flowers, figure modelling and celebration cakes by many well known Sugar crafters like Alan Dunn, Maisie Parrish and Tombi Peck to name a few. Squires…