If you are looking for realism and depth, you gotta add some texture. Its not as hard as it sounds, and it doesn't even require expensive tools! Have a look around your kitchen or cake room, you probably have most of these already! Silicone Basting Brush Silicone basting brushes are food safe, easy to clean, and come in a variety of bristle styles. They are perfect for fur, grass, woodgrain, concrete, and a host of other strand like textures....
Hands down, the question I get asked more than any other, is "How do you get your flowers to stick to the SIDE of the cake?!" Is it sorcery? Ah, no. Toothpicks? Nope. Glue? Eww, no. Its much, much simpler. Drop the Base One of the critical elements of attaching flowers, is keeping the weight down. Large, heavy flowers just will NOT stay stuck! That being said though, you can still use oversize flowers, but they work best on the ledge between...
When it comes to creating an edible work of Art, it doesn't have to be fancy to be fabulous. Basic Buttercream is not only delicious, its highly versatile. Its a crusting Buttercream, meaning it will firm up at room temperature, giving you the perfect canvas for painting, embossing, carving, sculpting, you name it! It's simple to make too! But just in case you are having trouble, I have put together this handy guide to help you out! Getting...
Colouring Buttercream is not quite as straight forward as you might think. For a start, butter is yellow. Yellow! Which means if you add blue, you don't get blue, you get Green! Sorcery! So how do you colour buttercream? What types of colours should you use? And how do I get White Buttercream? Whiter Shade of Pale There are a few ways to lighten Buttercream, and there are upsides and downsides to most. Option one is adding purple...
For such a long time, I've wanted to make a Sugar Shoe. The main hitch was, I'm not really a high heel kinda fan. If I HAVE to wear shoes, they're usually sand shoes, and not really the sort of thing you want to create in sugar! I am however, a massive lover of all things nature and fantasy, so I thought "ooh! Pixie Shoe! Next problem, I have never made a sugar shoe. No worries! Since when has that stopped me?! Join me on my journey to create a...
True beauty starts from the inside, whether it's a person or a cake, and my aim at Viva La Buttercream, is to inspire a little of both. Any cake made with love is perfect on it's own, but if you want to take your cake to the next level, the inside is the place to start. Even layers, and straight sides practically SCREAM professional cake, at least they would if cakes could scream, which would be weird.... I digress. Just what is involved...
