Hello pretty stripes and ruffles!!
I love this cake! It's so sassy and graphic! - my style to a "T"! Carrie with The Cake Blog did a fabulous write up on this cake!! Thanks Carrie!! You can see it here!!
This is the second cake I created for my Craftsy Class!! This cake
showcases how to create a horizontal design on a cake using the wax
paper transfer method. You can use this method to do horizontal
straight stripes or chevron stripes! You can do wavy stripes, stacked
stripes, bold thick stripes or bands. It's an incredible way to keep
your horizontal designs NICE and straight!
The striped cake might look familiar (seen here). Although this cute striped cake works great on it's own, I've been playing with other designs that work with it too in case you have a larger party! I love this look! Bold, yet feminine!
And, then there are these beautiful ruffles! A stylized look to ruffles. I wanted something bold to go with the stripes. A frilly ruffle wouldn't look quite right unless the color of the top stripes was more subtle and neutral.
I decided to alternate the ruffles with a lighter and darker shade of pink. It's very subtle, which I love because it looks like the light is reflecting it differently...but, it's different shades of color. Something you can play with!
In the class I give you the templates and techniques to create these ruffles and the graphic bow that's up on the top tier. If you haven't checked out my Craftsy class, click here and head on over! :)
Thanks for looking!! I can't wait to see what you all create!!
Such a lovely cake! Didn't notice the subtle variation in the pink of the ruffles till you mentioned it. Sweet touch!
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I love this cake!! I spent five minutes staring at the alternating pinks, just to be sure I was seeing it right.
ReplyDeleteI adore the precision of your cakes, Jess!
We were looking for a pink design for a customer of ours...this is to die for. Great cake...
ReplyDeletePINK is sooooo MY colour! lol This cake is just gorgeous. I'm planning on making the top tier striped cake for my birthday next month (all depends when baby #4 arrives).
ReplyDeleteBEautiful this is!
ReplyDeleteI really love pink specially in terms of designing! I'm glad that I've found your site because I'm looking for cake designs for my little baby's birthday next week.
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What sort of food coloring do you use? I'm having such trouble finding shades that turn out well in my mod choc. My "grey" mod choc ended up a horrible violet!
ReplyDeletePS: Took your class and I really love it. I made my birthday cake this year and I was stopped on the street on the way into the restaurant by people admiring it! The techniques are very versatile.
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
DeleteI use Wilton or Americolor Black...the Americolor is better...less purple but it still needs a bit of tweaking. If you add a TINY bit of green to the purply-gray it helps to tone down the purple and neutralize it. Just be careful to not add too much.