How cool is this? With a few simple ingredients, you can easily put together this cherry pie cake for a fun and surprising dessert. Just bake your favorite cake mix in a pie plate, top it with cherry pie filling, and pipe on some tinted frosting. Awesome! Check out the full instructions from Parenting here, [...]

Whether you make a simple boxed cake mix with canned frosting or bake a cake from scratch with elaborate decorations, the key to a beautiful, enticing cake is starting with smooth icing. But getting your icing smooth isn’t always easy, especially if you’ve never learned these simple cake icing techniques. When you follow these guidelines, [...]

Elegant cake designs don’t have to be complicated. With a little bit of style or artistic flair, even easy cake decorations can be used to make elegant cake designs. These ideas use simple and inexpensive embellishments to make even a simple boxed cake mix look sophisticated and special. One way to use edible cake decorations [...]

If you’re looking for an answer to “What is fondant icing?” this is a great video to watch. It gives you an overview of what fondant is made of, how you work with it, and what you can do with it in cake decorating. You can get step-by-step videos, illustrations, and instructions for the fondant [...]

A marshmallow fondant recipe is a great choice for a rolled homemade fondant cake covering. Learning how to make marshmallow fondant is easy, and it looks and tastes great. This homemade fondant recipe makes about two pounds, and it’s simple enough for anyone to do, even if you thought you’d never tackle the challenge of [...]

Even the most beautiful cake decorations aren’t so beautiful on a lopsided, messy cake. Before you decorate, you’ll need to level the cake layers and fill your layer cake neatly and evenly. The process is simple, and with a few tips and tricks your cakes will look perfect and ready for decorating. This video shows [...]

Yesterday, we went over some of the important decisions you need to make in the early stages of planning how to decorate a wedding cake. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the options to consider for wedding cake decorations, toppers, colors, and more. The decorations you choose may be determined by [...]

If you’re an amateur cake decorator thinking of making your first wedding cake, you may feel overwhelmed before you even begin. There are lots of things to consider and many decisions to make in the planning stages of how to decorate a wedding cake. Make the project more manageable by addressing all of these things [...]

The intimidating process of how to roll out fondant on a cake is really quite simple when you see it demonstrated. This video shows you how to knead and roll fondant and use it to cover a cake smoothly and evenly for a flawless finish. Learn more about how to work with fondant here.

Sleek and smooth fondant covering on a cake is the ultimate canvas for beautiful decoration. For many cake decorators, learning how to work with fondant frosting is intimidating. What they don’t know is that easy fondant decorating is possible for anyone with the right information and a little bit of practice. How To Work With [...]