r/cakedecorating

any input appreciated :)

I was mostly excited to try piping lilies of the valley after seeing a short video of how to do them. I’m happy with how they turned out.

The cake is a 2-layer lemon cake with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream and rhubarb curd filling.

The top is a buttercream transfer that I did by piping out the art on a parchment paper. This was hard but I'm loving learning the technique

Soccer ball cake for my kiddos birthday. I'm happy with how the top turned out but still struggle with covering the sides properly. Any tips?

So, a coworker commissioned me to make a couple of cakes for some other coworkers (both of whom are also friends of mine). I charged him $40 for both, because I was really just charging for supplies. He then said “Hey, seriously, next time we do this, charge me more.” I do this as a hobby, not a business, so I have no concept of what a fair price would be. But now I have other people from their department asking about commissions… what do?

Made this vintage coquette-inspired cake for an 18th debut with pearl bows, and a pearl “18” accent 🤍
The colors are white with coral pink and red details, plus tiny buttercream roses all around for that soft girly vibe 🌹✨

This was actually a rush order 😭 I frosted, and piped everything in around an hour, so I was seriously racing against time the whole process. Definitely stressful, but I’m really happy with how elegant and delicate it turned out 🥹🎂

The pieces ended up a bit bigger than expected, around 11.5 x 5 cm and about 3.5 cm tall. From what I’ve read, the height is pretty normal for Opera cake (2.5 cm up to 4ish cm), but next time I’d probably cut the slices a little smaller for a cleaner, more elegant look 😅

I’d love any tips or recommendations for improving the next one!

A cherry blossom/sakura exploding golden heart cake, a birthday cake for a friend who is one of the best people I know. He's someone who knows how to truly look at you and see you, who isn’t afraid of intensity, and sometimes looking at him (as a person, I don’t mean physically) is like looking at the sun.

And this is the same feeling sometimes I get in Japan in cherry blossom season, which I often travel there for, and where I always most wish I was, if I could be anywhere. The beauty of sakura is so electric that it almost vibrates and is sometimes almost too much to bear and you need to look away from time to time to best appreciate it in peripheral vision, and then you look back again and it almost floors you speechless how lovely one thing in this desolate world can be, and you feel heartened by that, in the darkness, for a moment. (But also a little beauty-aggression, like you kinda want to punch it in the MFing face for making you feel that way??)

And that’s like him; if you cut his heart open, I think you’d find blossom (plus a lot of other shit, but also blossom.) So it’s sakura cake, with all sakura things, brought back from Japan - vanilla cake with sakura syrup, sakura pudding buttercream, sakura arare and yatsuhashi (Japanese puffed rice and biscuits) and sakura kohakutou (crystal candy) as filling. And piped buttercream sakura blossoms. Swipe to the end for the last photos I took of the electric sakura of Kyoto.

Hey y’all! My birthday is coming up, and nearly every year in the past I have had the same homemade cake (chocolate angel food my beloved). But this year I’m thinking about spicing things up, and I saw these gorgeous heart cakes at Walmart for only $25! This was the base cake I was looking at (image 1), but I’ve seen people online buying cakes like these and then customizing them a bit more at home (adding glitter, cherries, bows, pearls, etc). I’ve also heard people online say that you can get a heart-shaped cake fully customized if you order in-store. If that’s true I think it would be fun to try, and I’ve seen some really cute ideas from other people! But I’m totally new to this, so I don’t have a clear image in my head of what I would want the cake to look like (or even what’s appropriate to ask for). I’ll add a couple pictures of heart cake designs I like, but i’m not married to any one idea (and I know most designs I see online would have to be simplified quite a bit). So if any of you guys have ideas for how you would customize a cake like this, I would love to hear them!😊

P.S: does anyone know how many people this would actually serve? They say 16, but I’m sure most people in my family will want a decent sized piece.

Nothing too special compared to what is in this sub but just wanted to share this, my little cousin was very happy about it.

My three year old loves dinosaurs so I made her a dinosaur cake. ♥️

Hi guys! Can someone please help me, I want to make a numbered cake like the one in the photo for my sibling, but idk what frosting to make? I want to make one that will hold up and keep it’s shape like the one in the photo.

In the past I have made frostings, like cream cheese but they always melt or don’t hold its shape 😭 I don’t want to waste money and ingredients. So if someone could recommend a good one that would be awesome :)

Made this for my friends sister! It was a Neapolitan cake and everything is edible. I made the shoes out of modeling chocolate and the seashells/starfish out of white chocolate. I think this is one of my favorite cakes I’ve ever made