Tiered Cakes

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  • Valentine Bears Cake (& wrapping a buttercream cake with edible fabric designs!)

    The following tools/supplies are discounted 15% off to Cakeheads members via evilcakegenius.com: Edible Glitter Jumbo Jars, PME Premium Rolled Fondant White - 5lb, Paramount Crystals, Petal Dust Palette Set A, Hot Hands Modeling Chocolate, Acrylic Frosting Guide Discs by Cakeheads, and Edible Fab...

  • Cherry Blossom Tree Cake: Part Two

    Using Karen Portaleo's Edible Artists Oil Paints and some buttercream to create this cherry blossom tree.

    Link to the Google document with the cherry tree inspiration painting by WOW art: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1auq2Mqq-Mm0VcayLc83KAuIWWVrJtroTEcRYoKlJVdw/edit?usp=sharing

    Prepping t...

  • Cherry Blossom Tree Cake; Part One

    Using Karen Portaleo's Edible Artists Oil Paints and some buttercream to create this cherry blossom tree.

    Link to the Google document with the cherry tree inspiration painting by WOW art: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1auq2Mqq-Mm0VcayLc83KAuIWWVrJtroTEcRYoKlJVdw/edit?usp=sharing

    Prepping t...

  • Vintage Buttercream Piped Cake PLUS White Almond Sour Cream Cake Recipe

    White Almond Sour Cream Cake Recipe (WASC)
    The only white (vanilla) cake recipe I’ll use, now, as it’s moist, dense, carves well, and is RIDICULOUSLY delicious! (Works great for cupcakes, too!) Just leave out the almond extract and substitute it for more vanilla if you want this to be a delicious...

  • Turquoise/Teal Painted Buttercream with Palette Knife Leaves & Red Accents

    How I created this painted buttercream finish and floral design with palette knife leaves.

    Note: I used equal parts of Roxy & Rich Apple Green Edible Hybrid Luster Dust and Roxy & Rich Neon Green Fondust for the green version of this finish.

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    LINKS & SUPPLIES

    Related tutorial: How to Make a...

  • Sun and Clouds Cake with Rainbow & Daisy Field

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Attention!! In the video, at around 22:15, a mistake was made and a 4" cake card was completely forgotten on top of the sphere cake before adding the second sphere half. Because ganache was used to ice the cake, it held up fine, but using the supports and cake card as intended is st...

  • sweet peas flower

    For my cold porcelain mixture, I use:

    40% Nicron Flex
    40% Mama Dora
    20% Nicron Soft (which adds a little white into the mix so the end result isn't translucent)

    Watch the live that Deborah Green did with us on attaching flowers to cake as she also discusses using cold porcelain and the benefits...

  • Live! Cold Porcelain Flower Making 101 with Deborah Green!

    All you need to know (and the reasons why you'll love) to start using cold porcelain for your flower making!

    Check out more of Deborah's gorgeous work on Instagram: @deborahgreen_designs (she's making mostly flowers these days for her son @happytierskc and her daughter @meredithwithhands). Her s...

  • Live! Attaching Flowers to Cake, With Deborah Green

    Check out more of Deborah's gorgeous work on her Instagram account, @deborahgreen_designs
    and she's making mostly flowers these days for her son @happytierskc
    and her daughter @meredithwithhands
    Her son also has a Facebook page, Happy Tiers!
    Check out Jacqueline Butler's live tutorial recording o...

  • Sunflower; Using Edible Fabric

    Related tutorial: edible fabric anemone and leaves, Anemone Flower & Leaves; Using Edible Fabric: https://cakeheads.vhx.tv/videos/anemone-flower-leaves-using-edible-fabric
    Related tutorial: full Fuzzy Bunny Holding Flowers cake, Bunny Holding Flowers Cake; With A Fuzzy Finish: https://cakeheads.v...

  • Watercoloring Fondant & creating a Simple Edible Picture

    Tutorial on how to make these wafer anemones, water coloring fondant and creating a simple picture.

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    LINKS & SUPPLIES

    Related tutorial: Modeling Chocolate video tutorial and live session recording (no separate video available)

    RECIPES
    - Modeling Chocolate

    SUPPLIES
    - 100 Count Edible Rectan...

  • Making Wafer Anemones!

    Tutorial on how to make these wafer anemones, water coloring fondant and creating a simple picture.

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    LINKS & SUPPLIES

    Related tutorial: Modeling Chocolate video tutorial and live session recording (no separate video available)

    RECIPES
    - Modeling Chocolate

    SUPPLIES
    - 100 Count Edible Rectan...

  • Making Buttercream Anemones

    How to make quick, cute and easy buttercream anemones to add to any cake project.

    I used petal tip Wilton 104 to make these anemones!

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    LINKS & SUPPLIES

    RECIPES
    - SUPER Easy Meringue Buttercream (Vanilla or Chocolate!)

    SUPPLIES
    - Wilton 402-104 Petal Decorating Tip: https://www.amazon.com/W...

  • Buttercream hydrangea, roses, anemones, pine cones

    Special tip on how to get yellowish buttercream, white: Add just the TEENSIEST bit of violet gel paste to your yellow-tinged buttercream! You'll usually need less than you think. Add, mix, and then compare a bit of the original yellowish buttercream (so make sure to save a spoonful of it beforeha...

  • Bunny Holding Flowers Cake; With A Fuzzy Finish

    In my cake:

    The bunny's body was about 8" tall
    The bunny's head portion (half sphere) was about 2.5" tall
    for a total height of about 10"-11"

    I used (@3) 6" round cake tins (in 3" deep pans) to bake the body cake layers and a 6" Wilton Sports Ball half sphere pan to bake the head cake layer.

    L...

  • Bunny Girl Figure, Part 2

    Video tutorial on how to create this bunny girl figure using the McGreevy Cakes Face Mold.

    Note: You can now use the Cakeheads Body Mold Set to help model your figure's body! We've since created this set to work with the Cakeheads Face Mold. Also, there's a video on the Cakeheads website showing...

  • Bunny Figure Girl, Part 1

    Video tutorial on how to create this bunny girl figure using the McGreevy Cakes Face Mold.

    Note: You can now use the Cakeheads Body Mold Set to help model your figure's body! We've since created this set to work with the Cakeheads Face Mold. Also, there's a video on the Cakeheads website showing...

  • Fire Extinguisher Cake: Part 1

    The link to the Google document with the exact size of the inspiration photo that Shawna printed out is here...
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gAwFAhPd7xWNXkprwFzpZscen_Ct0n6v4pqlKWl9QTo/edit?usp=sharing
    When you want to change the size of the inspiration photo on one of my shared documents
    ...

  • Fire Extinguisher Cake: Part 2

    The link to the Google document with the exact size of the inspiration photo that Shawna printed out is here...
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gAwFAhPd7xWNXkprwFzpZscen_Ct0n6v4pqlKWl9QTo/edit?usp=sharing
    When you want to change the size of the inspiration photo on one of my shared documents
    ...

  • Bearly Wait Cake

    SHINY AS HELL EDIBLE LUSTER DUSTS
    IMPRESSION MAT RIB & CABLE KNIT
    EDIBLE GLUE BY PME

    Click HERE to view and print the inspiration photo/digital design Shawna used for this project.

    Shawna used a 104 petal tip to create the pink mini roses
    Shawna created a 6" round, 10" high double barrel cake ...

  • spongy edible moss

    Recipe:

    1 egg at room temperature
    25g (3 TAB) flour
    5g (1 and 1/4 teaspoon) baking powder
    12g (1 TAB) sugar
    30g honey

    Combine egg and sugar and beat until fluffy.
    Add honey and any food gel color needed. Mix well.
    Sift in flour and baking powder and fold in gently until mixed.
    Add batter to p...

  • Round Book Tier

    Notes:

    make each book spine height 1/4" taller than the height of the cake tier
    cut the little strips for the book covers 1/4" thick
    make the width of the book spines different- I made mine 3/4", 1" and 1 & 1/4" thick
    I needed about 25 total book spines to cover a 10" round cake covered in fond...

  • Live! Buttercream Stripes with Shawna

    Top tips:

    Ice cake tier as normal and then chill it in the freezer (20 min) or fridge (30 min) before using the stripes comb (when using the easy meringue recipe that I did)
    heat comb in hot water (and wipe clean) to do a final round of combing
    put cake back into freezer (30 min) or fridge (45 m...

  • Books in Head Cake: Part 2

    Here's a link to the actual size inspiration photo I used and printed out for recreating her...
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wX8n-wVjqYg61EQNyk0S5eahRCWCHAnujyu481yhfAg/edit?usp=sharing
    I baked three separate 8" round cake layers for this project, with the leveled, torted and filled layers...