Tutorials

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to make this birdcage Christmas cake, with a cute little robin, poinsettia flowers and Christmas roses. It is a really lovely Christmas cake idea, which is simple yet really effective. It would look beautiful as part of a Christmas celebration or even a Christmas wedding.

You will need

-A 6” round fruit cake
-6” semi sphere fruit cake
-8” iced cake drum
-Red, white, green and brown gum paste -Petunia cutter and veiner set (Petal craft) -Paintbrush
-Edible glue
-Small piping bag and nozzle
-Royal icing
-Circle cutter
-Holly plunge cutter and veiner
-Small blossom plunge cutter
-Foam flower former
-Beadmaker
-Sharp kinife
-Rose silicone mould
-gold edible paint
-gold dragees
-yellow nonpareils
-Rose leaf plunge cutter and veiner -Robin silicone mould
-Red orange and black edible food colouring dusts -gold sparkle edible shimmer dust

Preparation

Cover each of the cakes with marzipan and white sugarpaste. Stack the cakes on an 8” iced cake drum.

I hope you enjoyed this Christmas Cake Idea- A Birdcage Cake Tutorial. Check out some more of our tutorials below.

P.S I love seeing the cakes that you’re making, so if you use one of my tutorials please tag @sugarruffles in your Instagram photos and stories so I can take a look! 

Today I am sharing one of my most popular tutorials. My wisteria sugar flower tutorial. Click on the link above to download your free copy now!

Are you looking for a new flower to add to your sugar flower skill set?

With my wisteria sugar flower tutorial you will learn something new and different that you can add to your sugar flower and wedding cake portfolio.

In this step by step tutorial you will learn how to create beautiful wisteria sugar flowers and how to use petal dusts to give a life-like look to your wisteria.

You will also learn how to create a lustre effect on your cake and use a mould to create pretty floral swags.

Hanging flowers are a huge trend for weddings and wisteria adds a really elegant touch to a wedding cake.

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Please let me know in the comments below any tutorials you would love to see on the Sugar Ruffles blog. I’d love to hear from you. 

P.S I love seeing the cakes that you’re making, so if you use one of my tutorials please tag @sugarruffles in your Instagram photos and stories so I can take a look! 

Did you notice the pretty edible jewels on the wedding cake that I shared last week in my Sugar Sequin Tutorial? Well this week I am sharing exactly how I made them, and the best part is that they are made with white modelling chocolate so they are really delicious as well as looking pretty. I am going to take you through step by step, including how to make your own jewel cake decorating mould.

How to make your own jewel cake decorating mould

You will need:

–Silicone Plastique Putty Mould Making Kit

–Small jewels

–White modelling chocolate 

–Snowflake lustre dust

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P.S I love seeing the cakes that you’re making, so if you use one of my tutorials please tag @sugarruffles in your Instagram photos and stories so I can take a look! 

Sugar sequins look so pretty on wedding cakes, they add such a lovely delicate sparkle.  I love to use sequins on wedding cakes to embellish sugar lace and to add some extra sparkle to designs. Today I’m going to show you how to make sugar sequins using cake lace. In this sugar sequin tutorial I used the sequins cake lace mat and white original cake lace by Claire Bowman. 

I have added a list of everything you will need to complete this sugar sequin tutorial on my amazon storefront here, so everything is in one place for you.

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Pin this sugar sequin tutorial to Pinterest for later.

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Today I am sharing a petal ruffles cake tutorial with step by step instructions. I have also included my cherry blossom sugar flower tutorial as a free download so that you can create our entire cherry blossom and petal ruffle wedding cake design.

Petal ruffles are one of the most popular design elements amongst my brides. If you take a look at my Instagram you can see just how many brides choose to incorporate them into their wedding cake design. I can definitely see why, they are pretty and delicate and add such lovely texture to a cake. They also pair beautifully with sugar flowers.

But I will warn you, petal ruffles are very time consuming to make! So I have included a few tips which will help you to speed up the process. Keep reading to find out more.

Petal Ruffles Cake Tutorial

Tips

-My favourite tool to speed up any cake design is my electronic sheeter . It is the best investment I have made for my wedding cake business yet and you can find the same one I use here. I highly recommend it!

-Usually a little brush of edible glue is enough to to stick the soft ruffles to the cake, but if your ruffles have set a bit more and they will not stay attached to the cake you can use royal icing.

-Cut out lots of hydrangea shapes at once and store in a plastic zip lock bag until you are ready to thin and scrunch them.

-To create on ombre effect with your petal ruffles start by creating petals in your colour of choice e.g pink and then add a little white flower paste after every two layers of petals. This will gradually lighten the colour and create an ombre colour gradient.

Would you like to learn how to make our cherry blossom and petal ruffle wedding cake? 

Click on the image above to sign up for our newsletter and download your FREE cherry blossom sugar flower tutorial. You can use this along with the petal ruffles cake tutorial to create one of our most popular designs.

Save this tutorial for later and pin it to Pinterest

More Wedding cake and sugar flower tutorials

Watercolour wedding cake tutorial

Wisteria wedding cake tutorial

Autumn wedding cake tutorial

Please let me know in the comments below any tutorials you would love to see on the Sugar Ruffles blog. I’d love to hear from you. 

P.S I love seeing the cakes that you’re making, so if you use one of my tutorials please tag @sugarruffles in your Instagram photos and stories so I can take a look! 

Please note this post contains affiliate links. If you click the links and purchase any item I will receive a small commission but this does NOT add any additional costs to you. Thank you so much for supporting Sugar Ruffles Blog.