Season 5 - This season of lessons is filled with various projects to test and reinforce your basic skills while incorporating exciting challenges. We've included trendy cakes to keep you up-to-date with the latest styles, like our Origami Pleat design, alongside classic ones you may not have tried before, such as a stained glass cake. Our goal is to offer a fresh set of lessons to help you refine your skills and create beautiful designs. Each lesson has an information sheet with helpful details to get each project started. We've also provided printable templates for any essential design details required for projects.
- Origami Cake: This design is a fun twist on the pleat trend. Learn how to create your pleat form from cardstock and parchment paper, resulting in crisp, clean-looking folds on the sides of your cakes. We've also designed an origami crane to top your cake and complete the look.
- Comic Tattoo Heart Cake: A petite comic-style cake inspired by American Traditional Tattoos, featuring big, bold roses and a sweet message banner.
- Robin’s Egg Cake: Break out your grass tip to make this fun and easy design, topped with sprinkle-filled Robin’s eggs.
- Pink Wedding Cake: Focused on easy yet striking finishes to help you learn to stack cakes, this design combines easy-to-make rice paper sails with a simple textured buttercream finish.
- Stars and Rosettes Cake: A great design to reinforce your basic skills, covering the top of our cake completely for a vibrant yet easy look.
- Carved Raspberry Cake: For this beautiful design, we've created a unique effect by carving into layers of color and embellishing those elements with simple piped details. It's an art nouveau-inspired design in a nature-inspired color palette.
- Lambeth Cake: Lambeth cakes provide piping-intensive practice to hone and level up your skills. This monochromatic design includes ruffled swags and other unique details that give it a celebratory air.
- Floral Cascade Cake: A few types of piped flowers and leaves make for this elegant design. We've created a cascade effect with our Wisteria flowers and topped the arrangement with English Roses and buds for a soft romantic vibe.
- Stained Glass Iris: We've designed a lovely stained-glass cake using only buttercream and piping gel. A darling iris pattern makes for a stunning yet simple design.
- Spooky Tree Cake: Simple piped lines with a star tip are all you need to create this spooky tree cake for a fun and festive celebration.
- Palette Knife Dahlia Cake: A big, bold design featuring large Dahlia flowers and buds. We used both palette knife and piping techniques to create a stunning, realistic look.
- Sweater Cake: Great practice for piping! We are creating a chunky knit sweater design on the sides of our cake, using a mix of piping techniques to achieve an easy yet impressive effect. We finished ours with some piped holly leaves and berries to enhance the holiday cheer.
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- Information Sheet
- Materials and Equipment Used (4:19)
- Color Mixing Light Aqua Buttercream (2:37)
- Color Mixing Orange Fumpaste (2:18)
- Covering Cake in Blue buttercream (5:29)
- Preparing Pleat Form (9:07)
- Filling Pleats with Buttercream (4:39)
- Placing Pleats on Cake (2:55)
- Making Crane Part 1 (4:20)
- Making Crane Part 2 (5:39)
- Making Crane Part 3 (4:13)
- Making Crane Part 4 (5:32)
- Removing Pleat Form (3:32)
- Assembling Crane and Finished Cake (5:43)
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- Information Sheet
- Materials and Equipment Used (3:11)
- Color Mixing Light Blue (1:44)
- Color Mixing Green (1:24)
- Color Mixing Black (1:04)
- Color Mixing Red (1:37)
- Making Gumpaste Banner (6:23)
- Bags and Tips Used (0:47)
- Carving Heart Shape (8:04)
- Icing Cake in Blue (4:23)
- Getting a Clean finish on your Heart Shape Part 1 (5:38)
- Getting a Clean finish on your Heart Shape Part 2 (4:59)
- Piped Rose Technique Review Part 1 (2:45)
- Piped Rose Technique Review Part 2 (2:21)
- Piping Roses (3:04)
- Technique Review for Piping Lines and Writing (5:08)
- Writing on Your Scroll (6:07)
- Adding Flowers and Scroll to Cake (8:51)
- Piping Outlines on Cake and Details (7:47)
- Finished Cake Design (3:33)
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- Materials and Equipment Needed (4:39)
- Color Mixing Light Green (1:27)
- Color Mixing Medium Green (1:47)
- Color Mixing Brown (1:46)
- Coating Your cake in Green (4:45)
- Bags and Tips Used (0:51)
- Making Eggs - Preparing Molds (3:38)
- Making Eggs - Preparing Candy Melts (3:06)
- Eggs Pouring Candy Melts (3:43)
- Eggs removing from forms and Joining Together (2:48)
- Techniques Piping Practice (4:41)
- Piping On cake Nest and Grass Part 1 (3:59)
- Piping On cake Nest and Grass Part 2 (4:05)
- Adding Eggs to Cake and the Finished Design (3:13)
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- Color Mixing Light Pink (2:28)
- Materials and Equipment Needed (6:55)
- Adding Rice Paper Sail Decorations and Finished Cake (10:43)
- Getting Started and Covering Your Tiers in Pink (5:52)
- Adding Supports to Cake (11:58)
- Moving Bottom Tier to Cake Drum (2:32)
- Stacking Cake and Adding Texture Part 1 (5:44)
- Stacking Cake and Adding Texture Part 2 (6:30)
- Stacking Cake and Adding Texture Part 3 (6:59)
- Making Rice Paper Sails (11:46)
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- Materials and Equipment Used (1:44)
- Mixing Colors Light Purple (1:20)
- Mixing Colors Dark Purple (0:48)
- Mixing Colors Lilac (1:30)
- Mixing Colors Pink (1:02)
- Mixing Colors Teal (1:45)
- Coating Your Cake in Purple (4:34)
- Bags and Tips Used (0:52)
- Technique Review and Piping Practice (4:32)
- Piping on Cake and Finished Design (14:43)
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- Materials and Equipment Used (2:15)
- Color Mixing Ivory (2:22)
- Color Mixing Red (2:12)
- Color Mixing Moss Green (2:36)
- Covering cake in Green (4:51)
- Covering Cake in Ivory (4:22)
- Bags and Tips Used (0:44)
- Technique Review Piping Practice (4:47)
- Tracing Pattern and Carving Part 1 (7:58)
- Piping Details Part 1 (8:01)
- piping Details Part 2 and Finished Design (4:50)
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- Materials and Equipment Used (2:38)
- Information Sheet
- Color Mixing Light Slate Blue (2:24)
- Color Mixing Medium Slate Blue (3:32)
- Color Mixing Dark Slate Blue (2:24)
- Covering Cake Medium Slate Blue (4:17)
- Using Template to Mark Cake (3:59)
- Bags and Tips Used (1:21)
- Technique Review and Piping Practice (7:24)
- Piping on Cake Part 1 (1:20)
- Piping on Cake Part 2 (4:05)
- Piping on Cake Part 3 (4:33)
- Piping on Cake Part 4 (2:51)
- Piping on Cake Part 5 (3:24)
- Piping on Cake Part 6 (1:33)
- Finished Design (1:04)
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- Materials and Equipment Used (3:30)
- Mixing Colors Ivory (1:38)
- Color Mixing Light Pink (1:21)
- Color Mixing Purple (2:00)
- Color Mixing Medium Forest Green (1:59)
- Color Mixing Light Green (1:26)
- Covering Cake in Ivory (3:24)
- Bags and Tips Used (1:21)
- Technique Review and Piping Practice Leaves (4:10)
- Piping Leaves on Nail (1:34)
- Technique Review and Piping Practice English Roses (4:44)
- Piping English Roses (6:14)
- Technique Review and Piping Practice English Rose Buds (4:28)
- Piping English Rose Buds (3:15)
- Technique Review and Piping Practice Wisteria (1:33)
- Piping Wisteria Cascade (5:57)
- Arranging Flowers and Finished Design (11:39)
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- Information Sheet
- Materials and Equipment Used (3:20)
- Color Mixing Blue Buttercream (2:00)
- Color Mixing Purple Buttercream (0:54)
- Color Mixing Green Buttercream (1:03)
- Color Mixing Yellow Buttercream (0:45)
- Color Mixing Black Buttercream (1:31)
- Covering Cake with Blue Buttercream (4:47)
- tracing Template (3:11)
- Palette Knife Practice (2:47)
- Adding Color With Palette Knife (4:50)
- Bags and Tips Used (0:23)
- Piping Practice Lines (2:18)
- Piping Lines (6:53)
- Mixing Piping Gel Colors (4:31)
- Painting Piping Gel (13:27)
- Finishing Touches and Finished Cake Design (3:13)
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- Materials and Equipment Used (2:44)
- Color Mixing Gray (1:31)
- Color Mixing Green (1:55)
- Color Mixing Black (2:19)
- Covering Cake in Gray with Textured Top (5:00)
- Making Candy Melt Arms (1:59)
- Bags and Tips Used (0:26)
- Piping Practice (1:57)
- Tracing Template and Piping Black on Cake (7:13)
- Adding Finishing Touches and Final Design (4:21)
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- Materials and Equipment Used (2:45)
- Color Mixing Burgundy (3:39)
- Color Mixing Mauve (2:08)
- Color Mixing Light forest green (1:08)
- Color Mixing Yellow (1:08)
- covering Cake in Burgundy (4:56)
- Bags and Tips Used (0:41)
- Technique Review and Piping Practice (3:23)
- Palette Knife Technique Review and Practice part 1 (4:08)
- Palette Knife Technique Review and Practice part 2 (3:42)
- Working on cake with Palette Knife Part 1 (6:50)
- Working on cake with Palette Knife Part 2 (9:37)
- Working on cake with Palette Knife Part 3 (7:36)
- Working on cake with Palette Knife Part 4 (10:11)
- Piping Finishing Details and Finished Design (4:10)
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- Materials and Equipment Used (3:25)
- Color Mixing Mint Green (3:44)
- Color Mixing Dark Green (0:55)
- Color Mixing Red (1:40)
- Bags and Tips Used (1:03)
- Technique Review and Piping Practice for Sweater Pattern (6:14)
- Technique Review and Piping Practice Holly (3:29)
- Piping Holly on Flower Nail (1:20)
- Covering Cake in Mint Green (3:45)
- Using Template to Mark Sections (3:26)
- Piping on Cake Part 1 (3:59)
- Piping on Cake Part 2 (1:42)
- Piping on Cake Part 3 (3:25)
- Piping on Cake Part 4 (2:29)
- Placing Holly and Finished Design (3:54)