cake decorating

Cake decorating is a hugely popular activity. Professionals and home bakers alike enjoy decorating cakes. The Internet has become a great (and sometimes overwhelming) resource for those who like to decorate cakes.

You can decorate cakes with just about anything that strikes your fancy. Like M&Ms? Stick them on! Like Peeps? Pile them on, too! Want to decorate a boy's birthday cake with Hot Wheels cars? Then go right ahead!

One online favorite destination for cake decorators is Wilton's website. They offer tons of suggestions, tips, and advice. They also have pictures of beautifully decorated cakes. Their pictures will help inspire any cake decorator looking for ideas.

There are lots of other blogs that offer visitors cake decorating pictures and 'How To' videos, such as Cake Decorating Ideas and Just Cake Decorating.

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• Diy,Sewing… #Free #Patterns & Cake Decorating #Recipes

  
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  Dear Creatives, Did you know that Craftsy has several free patterns? Yes, I said free! I am sharing links to help provide you to free pattern pages for Embroidery, Knitting, Sewing, and Quilting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Pinterest Inferiority Complex.

  
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  Is this a medically recognised disorder? Because it really should be. Backing up a bit, over the long weekend, we loaded the car with children and headed south to meet up with the rest of my husband’s family (or most of), in honour of a couple of big birthdays happening this year. Plus you know, it’s nice to see ...
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• Sugar Paste Full Blown Rose Spray

  
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  Sydney has been asking me if we could create a sugarpaste full blown rose spray for a cake for sometime now. I figured with Roses being June’s flower now would be perfect. I based the roses for this cake after the Glowing Peace Rose, named after its grandparent Peace, the world’s most renowned rose. The Glowing ...
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• Betty Crocker’s Gift Guide for Father’s Day

  
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  Go Betty Crocker ! I’m fully impressed by their Father’s Day gift guide. Inspired by different Father’s Day-themed sweets, they collect gift ideas for Dad. A campfire cupcake leads to camping gear, a football cake to football finds, a shirt and tie cake to the biz dad, and my favorite, the handy cake and cool ...
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• Edible Fantasy Flower How-To

  
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  Not every edible flower creation need be realistic, especially when making a birthday cake for a young girl. A fun way to dress up a cake is by incorporating flowers made with funky prints. Here I’ve created 2 flowers by alternating print and solid petal cut-outs from icing sheets.  Little talent is required and ...
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• How to Make Fondant Strawberries

  
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  Learn how to make fondant strawberries and strawberry blossoms for cakes and cupcakes.
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• Cake decorating at Stiletto Studio

  
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  Following on from our fondant flower making course , we have once again spent the last three weeks in the company of Becs at Stiletto Studio . This time, the work involved practising different piping techniques to decorate cakes . I discovered that slapping basic buttercream frosting onto a dummy cake speeds ...
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• How to Create Sugar Paste Tuberoses

  
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  About two weeks past, I posted a tutorial on how to create an open sugar paste Peony, since then I have had serval requests asking how to create the Tuberose in the peony spray. I chose Tuberoses for their dainty appearance, and the Tuberose is a flower that is both mythical and magical, its nectar  is said [...] ...
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• Rose Buttercream Cake Tutorial by Coco Cake Land

  
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  Guest post by Lyndsay Sung of Coco Cake Land How lovely is a rosette buttercream covered cake? Ive always loved the look of buttercream cakes - they have such a sweet and vintage feel about them. I wanted to try making a rosette covered cake, similar to the one I Am Baker helped catapult into cakey ...
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• Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes

  
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  Fresh blueberry cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting. So hard to resist!
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• How to Create Sugar Paste Pansy

  
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  Pansies are vibrant, breathe taking, fragrant, edible, bloom and the flower most people take for granite. The pansy is linked forever to the viola, its ancestor, violas includes both pansies and violets, violets most loved for their perkiness and the their pretty perfume aroma. Pansy flowers are single with five ...
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• 88 Cakes on a theme of Motherhood (I only had to make one....phew!)

  
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  Im not one to turn down the chance to make a cake. Having said that, childrens birthday parties are one thing, being part of a cake based art exhibition is quite another. The theme for 88 Cakes, part of the Southbank Bristol Arts trail 2013 was "Motherhood", what on earth could I make out of cake that ...
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• Painting on a Cake

  
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  This cake makes me want to fly to Paris immediately. (Does anyone do that? Fly to Paris immediately?) The hand-painted scene, the beautiful blue flowers… Find fantastic tips on making this cake and hand-painting on fondant HERE at Make me my Cake .…
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• The Rapunzel 4th birthday cake

  
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  I had a tough challenge on my hands when it came to making Little I’s 4th birthday cake. For months she had been adamant that she wanted a Rapunzel cake. I desperately wanted it to live up to her high expectations and I’d spent quite a lot of time researching online for ideas…but all seemed [...]
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• Just £50.00 for Cupcake Decorating With Cake Boy – Experiences

  
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  Cupcake Decorating With Cake Boy £50.00 Cupcake Decorating With Cake Boy Red Letter Days Product Information Industry renowned Eric Lanlard, who has baked cakes for the likes of Madonna, Claudia ...
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• Top 12 Most Original Cake Designs(Photo Gallery)

  
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  The most difficult part of making a cake is its decoration. Mostly the cake makers use cream for this purpose and embellish it with candies etc. However, nothing in terms of creativity matches the cakes presented here.  These cakes have been shaped liked octopus, human baby, potted plants, chicken or cameras. Also ...
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• Memorial Day Weekend: Enjoy Up To 60% Off Craftsy Classes #ad #crafts

  
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  The post appeared first on Saving More Than Me . This Memorial Day weekend, join  Craftsy  in honoring the brave men and women who have served in the US Armed Forces. For every class sold this weekend,  Craftsy  will donate a portion of the proceeds to benefit a veterans’ organization. Select classes ...
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• Hello Kitty Cake

  
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  Without so much as a taste, we kissed Hello Kitty goodbye. Sure, the cute cartoon cat is adored around the globe and frequently requested on my YouTube channel, but in our boy-filled home this lovely cake was never going to … Continue reading →
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• cookies, silicone baking mats & you (win a baking mat!)

  
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  I bake a lot of cookies. No joke. I probably made like … oh… 12 dozen + recently for the SD Food Bloggers Bake Sale. I used two kinds of cookie sheets – big ones and small ones. I used silicone baking mats for some… and not for others. And it sure does make a difference! You’ve probably seen my typical ...
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• Flamboyant Mayflower Petal Cake

  
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  While Sydney was home  this past weekend, for a VERY short time, we visited the Botanical gardens. As we walked around the flowers and greenery I saw a Flamboyant Mayflower and  became mesmerized by it’s beauty! The Flamboyant Mayflower is known for its flamboyant display of flowers. In many tropical parts of the ...
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