Our contributor, Erica OBrien, owner of Erica OBrien Cake Design, is back for her second post in our new series called Trending. Erica is helping us translate today's top trends in fashion, design, art and everyday life into fabulous cake designs. Watch each month as she goes from inspiration on pinterest to cake concept, sketch and then the final cake design. With this insider look into her creative process, we hope you'll start to see inspiration everywhere in world around you. Today we're ... Continue Reading
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Lemon and Lavender Buttermilk Cake
Our contributor, Tessa Huff, is sharing a bright new cake recipe…. You don't always need a reason to eat a slice of cake. Sometimes a delightful, simple cake is all you need to turn an ordinary afternoon into a little celebration. While many cake recipes are dripping with sprinkles and drowning in caramel and chocolate, sometimes less really is more. With fresh, clean flavors, this cake is the kind of cake to enjoy any day. Now that we are in full-fledge Spring mode, I've been so ... Continue Reading
DIY: Vintage Butterfly Cake
Plain and simple, today's cake is an absolute stunner. It captures the beauty of spring with a elegant vintage vibe. An antiqued ecru-colored fondant is accented with black and white striped ribbons. While fondant appliques resemble the pages of an old Entomology book, filled with beautiful drawings of insects, paired with their Latin names. Only to be outdone by the amazing 3-d butterflies, in shades of pale blue and black, fluttering about. It's one of those cakes that you just have to ... Continue Reading
DIY : Easter Bunny Garden
Easter is just a few days away but there's still plenty of time for today's DIY. Who can resist an adorable bunny tail, all fluffy and white? Especially when it's ridiculously cute like today's featured tutorial! This little cupcake garden is filled with whimsical fondant bunnies, frilly cabbage and carrots. And dare I say, it's hoppin' with fun. It all comes to us from the fabulous new book, Sweet and Unique Cupcake Toppers by Lynlee Beckett of Lynlee's Petite Cakes. Lynlee is a ... Continue Reading
Rose Water and Pistachio Pavlova
Light. Airy. Elegant. Today's post is all about taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary. Calling upon the goodness of nature to create healthier cakes, bakes and desserts, full of fruit and flavor. Today's featured recipe takes free-range egg whites and whips them into a fluffy cloud of meringue. Infused with rose water and swirled into a nest-like bowl, the meringue is baked until crispy on the outside and heavenly on the inside. Then topped with whipped cream, fresh strawberries ... Continue Reading
Chocolate Easter Bunny Cake
Chocolate Easter Bunny Cake - how to decorate this easy cake for Easter dessert, using edible grass, a chocolate Easter bunny and candy eggs. Spring is officially here and little signs of growth and renewal are sprouting up everywhere. Easter is just three weeks away and the white ceramic bunnies in my living room have been ready for weeks. If you haven't noticed by now, I love holidays. I love the planning, the decorating, the celebrating, and of course, the baking. Last year we ... Continue Reading
TRENDING : Stripes & Florals
We're excited to welcome our newest contributor to The Cake Blog! Erica O’Brien, owner of Erica O’Brien Cake Design, will be joining us each month for a new series called Trending. Erica is helping us translate today's top trends in fashion, design, art and everyday life into fabulous cake designs. Watch each month as she goes from inspiration on pinterest to cake concept, sketch and then the final cake design. With this insider look into her creative process, we hope you'll start to see ... Continue Reading
DIY: Surprise-Inside Ring Cake
Around here, we're kinda obsessed with pretty cakes. Straight sides and smooth icing makes our heart jump a few beats, because from first glance you know that sweetness is just a slice away. Your knife glides down through the frosting and a wedge of pure bliss is pulled out, destined for your plate. It doesn't get much better than this. Except, of course, when the inside of the cake is just as gorgeous, or perhaps even more gorgeous, than the exterior. A little something extra on the ... Continue Reading
Coconut Cake
Our contributor, Tessa Huff, is back today with a lovely new cake recipe…. Coconut usually reminds us white-sand beaches and flavor combinations boosting pineapple and mango. With such beautiful textures and versatile flavors, I vow not to limit coconut to only tropical palettes ever again. Old-fashion coconut cake is a quintessential Southern treat. There is something nostalgic about a big slice of velvety butter cake and rich cream cheese frosting. The fluffy flakes and creamy ... Continue Reading
Coffee Walnut Loaf Cake
If your day typically starts with a fresh cup of coffee, then boy, do I have a cake for you. Today's featured recipe is a rustic cake that's simple enough for everyday baking yet perfectly lovely for special occasions. Rich notes of coffee are baked into every last crumb, starting with the loaf cake itself and then building in the mascarpone cream filling and coffee glaze icing. Walnuts add both flavor and texture to the cake while taking on a second role of elegant garnish. Creating a ... Continue Reading
Pink & Gold Cake Table
I hope you have a few moments to spare, because today's feature is worthy of your full attention. It's one of those cakes that's almost too pretty for words. Gorgeous shades of blush pink are mixed with subtle hints of gold and tall slender tiers covered in pristine white fondant. Flirty, frilly wafer paper flowers cascade down the front, growing in size and abundance on the way down. While the surrounding table is overflowing with amazing cupcakes and statement-making flowers. The entire ... Continue Reading
Grey Ombre Ruffles
Today's feature is pretty spectacular. Yeah, spectacular is truly the only word that can describe this cake. Or maybe phenomenal is more appropriate? All I know is that I was in love from the moment I first spotted it on Instagram. (Yeah, I finally took the plunge. I'm on Instagram now! Come join me here.) So needless to say, I was completely elated when these images landed in my inbox. Because I have a feeling that you're going to love it too! Shades of grey fade to white, creating a ... Continue Reading
Golden Honeycomb Cake
You know it's going to be a good week when Monday starts off with a pretty new cake to love. Especially one as gorgeous as today's feature. With a soft color palette of ivory, peach and gold, today's cake will certainly charm you with its natural beauty. And then you'll spot the honeycomb pattern and all will be lost. Oh how we love a pretty take on honeycomb. Let alone a textured honeycomb pattern with delicate accents of gold and a subtle shimmer. And then there's the sugar roses, ... Continue Reading
Ivory & Champagne Ruffles
Happy Monday! We're kick starting your day with some beautiful wedding cake inspiration. Scratch that. Today's cake isn't just beautiful. It's more like a breathtaking! And it will definitely have you dreaming of pretty cakes all week long. Tall, slender tiers are stacked ever so gracefully. While shades of champagne fade to ivory in rows upon rows of fondant frills. Two and a half tiers of frilly frills, to be exact. And then there's the flowers. Oh my goodness, these flowers! Big, ... Continue Reading
Wafer Paper Flower Cake
LOVE. It's funny how one word can say so much. And when it comes to today's featured cake, this one word says it all. From its simplistic beauty to the modern color scheme, there is just so much to love about this cake. Crisp, extra tall tiers are covered in pristine white fondant, creating a canvas for the gorgeous details to come. LOVE, written in black script letters, conveys a sweet message appropriate for weddings, bridal showers, anniversaries or Valentine's Day. Really, any day is a ... Continue Reading
Black & Gold Owl Birthday
Over the years, we've featured numerous owl cakes. Because, really, whooo doesn't love a cute little owl cake with big smiling eyes? Around here, owl cakes always give us something to hoot about! (Okay, I promise to tone down all of the owl-related puns, it's just hard to resist.) Well today's owl cake is perfectly suited for 2014. With a black and gold color scheme and a modern mix of bold prints, this is not your traditional owl cake. Gold and white stripes are paired with a playful ... Continue Reading
Dove Grey Wedding Cake
We're wrapping up the week with a yummy new cake design that's delicate and delightful as can be. With a bottom tier completely ruffled-out with oodles of dainty white petals, all snuggled together. Dove grey fondant is accented with a cluster of sugar flowers including white hydrangeas, brunia berries and dusty miller leaves. A single white rose makes a statement while complementing the texture of all those amazing petals. It comes to us from Charlotte Tyson of Sugar Ruffles and it's ... Continue Reading
Rose Buttercream Cake
Our contributor, Tessa Huff, is back today with a lovely new cake recipe…. I'm usually much more of a night owl, but I find that there is just something about a crisp, quiet winter morning that is so romantic. I can get lost in the stillness before the city wakes up or the calm of a beautiful winter wonderland. Add in a bit of sun, and I'm smitten. With the occasional peak of sun shinning in my neck of the woods and Valentine's Day just around the corner, love is definitely in the air. ... Continue Reading
Stepford Wives Dessert Table
Today's feature just might be too cute for words. We're stepping back in time to a retro style kitchen, filled with freshly baked desserts and cheery dose of suburbia. A frilly-apron-clad housewife is whipping up her best batch of cookies and offering you one straight from the oven. It's a little scene of domestic bliss, with a 3D cake as the centerpiece. It comes to us from Jacki Fanto, owner of Blissfully Sweet Cakes located in Sydney, Australia. Created for a kitchen tea, this display ... Continue Reading
Hello Kitty Birthday
Today's feature is so ridiculously adorable that the cuteness factor is simply off the charts. Everything about this party says happy. Happy, Happy Birthday! To be exact. Rainbow neon is mixed with small pops of black and white to create a cheerful color scheme that's vivid and so right now. A tissue paper bow backdrop sets the stage for a dessert table filled with brilliant sweets and a cake that will knock your socks off. And the star of the show is that iconic white cat we all know and ... Continue Reading
Art Nouveau Cake
When we talk about statement making cakes, today's feature is sure to be on the list. It's romantic, sophisticated and seriously spectacular. Inspired by the Art Nouveau period, this cake celebrates the architecture and designs of Charles Mackintosh. Tall dramatic tiers of white are accented with small touches of geometric shapes and a delicate band of lace. While strings of grass encircle the top and hold small berries in orbit. But the best part has to be gorgeous stems of roses created ... Continue Reading
Chanel Meets Brooklyn
It's Friday and we're ready for some new cakes to love. We've spent this week recapping the fabulous cake inspiration of 2013. After highlighting the Top Recipes of 2013, the Top Cake Designs and the Top Cake Projects... I think we're officially recapped out. We're ready to come around the bend and head straight into 2014. And I can't think of a better way to start off the year than with a gorgeous dessert table filled with impeccable style and two incredible cakes! Today's feature comes ... Continue Reading
Top Cake Designs of 2013
Happy New Year! We're excited to kick off another fabulous year of cake inspiration here on the blog! But before we jump right in to new posts for 2014, we're taking a second look at the best of the best from 2013. I’ve sifted through the 200+ posts from the last twelve months to find the ones that you loved the most. Based on your pageviews, Facebook likes and Pinterest pins.... we're taking a look back at the most popular posts from the last year. Yesterday, we highlighted the Top Recipe ... Continue Reading
Top Recipes of 2013
Happy New Year! I can hardly believe what I'm about to type... but 2014 is here! It's time to kick off another new year of cake inspiration and, as always, the months ahead are full of fabulous things to come. While I'm anxious to see everything that 2014 has in store, I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to last year. The past twelve months were filled to the brim with new recipes, DIY's and tutorials, new cake designs and dessert tables. And we simply can't let an incredible year like 2013 ... Continue Reading
The 12th Cake of Christmas
It's our third annual holiday series.... The 12 Cakes of Christmas!! We're oohing and aahing over twelve marvelous cake designs, created especially for this series! All brand new, never seen before, and created by some of your favorite bakers! For our theme this year, we're taking a moment to reflect on our favorite Christmas memories and traditions. It's a feel good month, celebrating the little things that make this season shine bright. Each of our featured bakers was asked to create a ... Continue Reading
Recipe: Blackberry Jam Cupcakes
Our contributor, Lauren Kapeluck of Crave. Indulge. Satisfy., is sharing a traditional family recipe with us today... December is one of my favorite months of the year...full of family traditions, creating lots of memories and enjoying special recipes that have been passed down for many generations. This month I'm excited to share with you a a family recipe that my "granga" (my grandmother on my dad's side) has been making every Christmas since I can remember - Blackberry Jam ... Continue Reading
The 10th Cake of Christmas
It's our third annual holiday series.... The 12 Cakes of Christmas!! We're oohing and aahing over twelve marvelous cake designs, created especially for this series! All brand new, never seen before, and created by some of your favorite bakers! For our theme this year, we're taking a moment to reflect on our favorite Christmas memories and traditions. It's a feel good month, celebrating the little things that make this season shine bright. Each of our featured bakers was asked to create a ... Continue Reading
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