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Friday Faves: Strawberries, syrup and superb flowers

Posted by Andi Satterlund on May 24, 2013 in Friday Faves | 1 comment

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!

Jackie’s Faves

AZCouture created a beautiful wedding cake to mimic the design of the bride’s dress. I love the execution of the isomalt beads in the piping design.

Have you ever seen gumpaste flowers so lifelike?  Not likely! If you are lucky enough to live in Germany, you can take a class on how to create this amazing flowers with Evgenia Maslova (EugenieS).

Leanne’s Faves

BakerzDad’s circus cake is so fun! This cake screams “this is going to be a great party!”

HappyCake10609 has done her cupcakes justice with this stunning cupcake display; it might just convert me to a cupcake lover. What a lovely and elegant way to show off the pretty clematis she made.

Mmmm…. pancakes!  Seriously, this is a cake?  Well done JanDunlevy.

Andi’s Faves

Is there anything as delightful as tea, biscuits and strawberry jam? Gigi1929’s cookies would make a wonderful addition to any tea party.

Orange is one of my favorite colors, and LePastryDiva’s cheerful cake puts it to work perfectly. I love how the brighter shades on the flowers pop off of the main color.

Sketch to Cake: Kathy Zyduck’s Bollywood Cake

Posted by Andi Satterlund on May 20, 2013 in Sketch to Cake | 3 comments

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.

Friday Faves: Fondant, Flowers and Forests

Posted by Andi Satterlund on May 17, 2013 in Friday Faves | 1 comment

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!

Jackie’s Faves

My eyes were first drawn to DesireeA’s lovely purple flowers, and after taking in the fondant ribbon technique used to cover the cake, it went straight into my favorites!

Who wouldn’t love this amazing sugar replica of the Leaky Cauldron from Harry Potter? Aggy Cotswolds won the gold award at Cake International at London Excel last month for this cake.

Leanne’s Faves

I love everything about stevinix’s Chanel inspired cake, the height, subtle robin’s egg blue, texture, the airy feel and of course the flowers!

MayBakesCakes’s beautiful hand painting speaks for itself. This is the cake I wish I could have made for my mom on Mother’s Day. I know whoever was lucky enough to receive this cake, loved it as much as I do.

Andi’s Faves

I love the bold, blue ruffles on this cake made by marie-coccinelle. The simple lily really stands out against the bright color of the bottom tier.

Edalina’s nature themed cake reminds me so much of the Pacific Northwest! The flowing river and trees are just beautiful.

Write for Cake Central Magazine’s Diary of a Decorator!

Posted by Andi Satterlund on May 13, 2013 in Write For Cake Central Magazine | 0 comments

Everyone has those decorating moments that seem dramatic at the time, but in retrospect, they make for wonderful stories.

We’re in need of writers to share entertaining, real-life stories about decorating cake or living with a decorator.

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.

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?

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Cake Decorator Highlight: Monica de Rumbea

Posted by Andi Satterlund on May 13, 2013 in Cake Decorator Highlight | 1 comment

Cake decorator Monica de Rumbea went above and beyond for our Bollywood photo spread in the May issue of Cake Central Magazine and created a whole dessert table with three cakes, cookies and mini cakes. Monica, whose business is based out of Guayaquil, Ecuador, took the time to tells us about her decorating background.

“I am fourth generation cake decorator, my great grandmother started her own business at home baking cakes,” says Monica. “She used bake cakes and petite sweets with french recipes [like] her french husband, my great grandfather, used to eat in France.” Cake decorating skills were passed down through her family, and Monica later expanded her knowledge at San Francisco University in Quito.

She began decorating wedding cakes and enjoyed the creativity involved, especially as nontraditional colors and flavors started to grow in popularity. “Hotels in town started to order my special cakes, not only for weddings but for birthdays, company meetings and even… for a divorce party,” says Monica. “I had the idea [for] a place where the brides could find their wedding dress, the wedding cakes and the petite sweets in one place, [and] that is how I started my shop Novia Express.”

Monica has been running her business and decorating wedding cakes for 15 years, but she never gets tired of it. “Usually I end the day exhausted, but believe me, when I see a… all of the petite sweets on a table surrounding a cake with a new theme on it, the satisfaction always worth it,” she says.