I love making gumpaste flowers. Yes, it does take patience, but it’s really satisfying when you can make something that looks like a real flower out of basically a piece of sugar paste. I’ve searched the ‘interwebs’ and here are the 17 best gumpaste flower tutorials (in my opinion) that I’ve found. You’ll learn gumpaste…
12 Simple and Easy Buttercream Cake Borders
Learn cake decorating piping techniques with these 12 simple and easy buttercream cake borders. Piping cake borders can actually be easy with these simple icing designs. Learn how to pipe a cake using twelve unique buttercream borders with this step-by-step, easy to follow tutorial. Plus there’s even a free printable cheat sheet for reference. Today…
Should I Refrigerate My Cake Before Frosting and Decorating?
If you’re new to cake decorating, you may be asking if you should refrigerate a cake before icing it. Here I’ve put together my best advice on when and when not to chill cakes in the decorating process. Over the years, I found what works and what doesn’t work for me and I’m happy to…
Tips for Carving Cakes
I don’t do a ton of cake carving, but I have done enough to know what really helps and what actually makes it more difficult. Today I’m sharing my best tips for carving cakes. This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. You can see my policies linked in…
How to Attach Gumpaste Flowers to Cakes
So you’ve made some pretty gumpaste flowers, but now you’re not sure how to actually attach them to your cake. You can’t just stick them directly into the cake, that wouldn’t be food safe…so what do you do? Well that’s what we’re talking about today. How to attach gumpaste flowers to cakes. I’ve been asked…