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

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

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

Delicate wafer paper roses add a feminine touch to cakes. These flowers look like they were difficult to create, but they’re surprisingly simple to make if you follow this step-by-step tutorial. All you need is patience and practice! » read more

Delicate wafer paper is an under-appreciated decorating medium when it comes to cakes. Both inexpensive and versatile, wafer paper is the perfect choice for fluttering butterflies, soft feathers and dreamy blossoms. To help inspire you, here are some of the most popular cakes featuring wafer paper decorations! » read more

What’s the secret to making the coolest children’s cake around? Monsters and aliens, of course! Strike the right balance between gross and cute with gumpaste figures and hand piping, and you’re sure to delight the children in your life. » read more

With so many unique entries, choosing an Inspiration Challenge winner was especially difficult, but we’re happy to announce that the winner is KO-sCakes! Congratulations! » read more