As editors of Cake Central magazine, we come across so many awesome, inspiring things while working. From users to cake creations to wedding inspiration to cool new products, we want to share a few of our favorite finds with you every week. Here are this week’s Friday Faves! » read more

To celebrate graduating from school, a major life accomplishment, what could be better than cupcakes? We’re looking for stylish, travel-inspired cupcakes that are fit for a graduation party for our latest Inspiration Challenge! Entries aren’t due in the Cupcake Challenge 10 album until May 26th, so there’s still time to enter. How would you decorate a cupcake based on this Pinterest board? » read more

When making a royal icing tiara, it’s best to use a template so your finished tiara or crown is symmetrical and perfect for a princess. To help you find your favorite, here are some of the most popular tiara templates shared by Cake Central users. Which one will you use? » read more

Bright and bite sized or bold and big, cookies provide the perfect canvas for imaginative decorating. Featuring everything from royal icing to fondant, here are some of the most popular decorated cookies from the gallery! » read more

I love no-fail sugar cookies (NFSC); they taste great and are easy to work with. The original recipe is one of my staples, and when I came across the strawberry NFSC recipe posted by Lovelyladylibra, I was inspired to bake a batch. I made a raspberry version followingLovelyladylibra’s recipe with a few modifications, then topped them with Toba Garrett’s glace for a pretty, tasty and simple cookie treat. I just love how pink these are! » read more

Fluffy, quilted pillow cakes provide the perfect foundation for delicately made tiaras and crowns or gumpaste figures and flowers. Elaborately detailed stacks of cake pillows can even stand alone without a topper. Take a look at what these creative cakemakers did with their pillows cakes! » read more

Pillow cakes are such a neat design and are actually pretty simple to make. In this tutorial I’m going to show how to do a square pillow cake with curved sides, as opposed to the straight sides. If you would like to do a pillow with just straight sides, simply omit the steps that cut the curves out of the cake. Cutting curves into the cake does reduce the cake size a bit (but if your family likes cake scraps, then you are okay). Don’t restrict yourself to square cakes either! Pillow cakes can easily be made out of almost any shape cake. » read more

Petite and elegant, cupcakes make for a sweet, romantic dessert. Artfully arrange them on a tiered stand to take center stage at a modern wedding, or use them as accent pieces to complement a beautiful cake or dessert table. » read more

With so many deliberately crafted details on her cake, we had to ask Kathy Zyduck about creating her beautiful cake for the May issue of Cake Central Magazine. Her carefully decorated cake is covered in hand-piped royal icing motifs, and the more we study the cake, the more we notice. Here’s what Kathy had to say about her cake. » read more

These royal icing tiara’s look great on top of a pillow cake. It will make your princess cake or queen cake just perfect! » read more

If you like to write and you have some great cake stories, apply to write for Cake Central Magazine! What would you write in your diary? Are you a supermom balancing family and business? Are you a cake decorating instructor? Are you living with a decorator and seeing things from a different perspective? Are you a hobbyist hoping to become a professional? Are you working as a pastry chef? Tell us about the trials and tribulations of a day at work or developing your career. We’re looking for anecdotes and short essays about life in the cake industry, and we hope to inspire and show a variety of perspectives through these unique, relatable stories. » read more

As editors of Cake Central magazine, we come across so many awesome, inspiring things while working. From users to cake creations to wedding inspiration to cool new products, we want to share a few of our favorite finds with you every week. Here are this week’s Friday Faves! » read more