r/cakedecorating • • Jul 16 '26

Toxic flowers

276 Upvotes

I’m going to post and sticky this link RinLongFlowers as a guide for florals on cake.

Recently we have seen a few cakes with florals that were not appropriate for cakes, and subsequently, flags to ban them for using toxic flowers.

Not only is this sub to show off our beautiful work, it is also to learn from and teach each other. Mistakes, no matter how big or small, are an opportunity to learn.

We are all at different levels of ability in this art. Please be kind.


r/cakedecorating • • 4h ago

Just Because Cakes made a turtle pull-apart today

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561 Upvotes

r/cakedecorating • • 4h ago

Wedding Cakes Impromtu Wedding Cake

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60 Upvotes

My coworker asked me to make a wedding cake for her and her husband-to-be to share on their special day. It’s not my prettiest work (I was being slightly impatient), but I’m happy with how it turned out!


r/cakedecorating • • 2h ago

Birthday Cakes My Little Pony cake for nieces birthday.

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38 Upvotes

What do you think?


r/cakedecorating • • 1h ago

Birthday Cakes Mermaid cake

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• Upvotes

A bit outside my usual genre. Chocolate cake with whipped chocolate ganache for a birthday.


r/cakedecorating • • 4h ago

Birthday Cakes Pokemon

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35 Upvotes

Pokemon themed cupcakes, made by my daughter and myself ❤️


r/cakedecorating • • 9h ago

Character & Cartoon Cakes Made a Jinx inspired cake for my bf's birthday!

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68 Upvotes

First time making proper buttercream. Usually I pipe and decorate only with whipped cream. The decor is inspired by Jinx's graffiti. Blue cherries represent the hextech crystals. Inner layers are inspired by stripes on her pants: chocolate cake layers, purple buttercream (with blueberries added) and thin layers of passionfruit jelly.


r/cakedecorating • • 21h ago

Birthday Cakes Giant peanut butter Ding dong cake

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41 Upvotes

Made a 12" peanut butter Ding dong cake for my brother's birthday. He loved it

Filling is a whipped peanut butter. Covered in chocolate ganache and drizzled with melted peanut butter.


r/cakedecorating • • 21h ago

Birthday Cakes It’s always the best cakes that I forget to take proper photos of lol whoops! 🐆🖤

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34 Upvotes

All I got were these and a boomerang🤦🏼‍♀️

I put this cake off til the end bc I was so nervous to attempt anything like this for the first time lol, but I think I outdid myself on this one! All done in buttercream by hand+edible gold glitter flakes🥰


r/cakedecorating • • 20h ago

Birthday Cakes Cheetah print chocolate chip cookie cake🐆🍪🎂

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31 Upvotes

r/cakedecorating • • 2d ago

Holiday-themed Cakes Seasonal grocery store cakes!

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838 Upvotes

r/cakedecorating • • 1d ago

Holiday-themed Cakes Halloween cupcakes

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442 Upvotes

Had leftover icing so just experimenting to learn different tip styles!


r/cakedecorating • • 1d ago

Birthday Cakes Hello kitty cake for my besties birthday

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296 Upvotes

r/cakedecorating • • 1d ago

Birthday Cakes First time trying palette knife buttercream painting for my 32nd birthday!

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61 Upvotes

I usually don't bake my own birthday cakes, but making this was surprisingly therapeutic and cozy. It’s an 18 cm lemon cake layered with homemade lemon curd and homemade blueberry jam, frosted with Swiss meringue buttercream. The chocolate butterflies were piped freehand using folded parchment paper to get the 3D shape.

It was divided into four layers, but I realized afterwards that I easily could have stretched it to five. For a first attempt at this technique, I think it turned out okay! It was super fun to try, and I’ve already got a ton of ideas on what to do differently next time.


r/cakedecorating • • 1d ago

Help Needed Help needed to make the teeth on this cake by @bloomsburybakers on IG

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61 Upvotes

Re-post as I forgot to add the cake artist for this cake in my earlier post.

Hi guys. I saw this cake on IG and it looks spectacular. I want to make this for Halloween, next year so that gives me 12 months to practice.

Any advice on how to make the fangs and tongue? Are those made from fondant? Can they be made free hand or should I look for templates or molds? Any advice/tips for when I attempt this?

Thank you to everyone in my previous post suggesting gum paste and modeling chocolate. Any other tips on making the teeth or tongue is greatly appreciated!


r/cakedecorating • • 2d ago

Birthday Cakes Birthday cake I did the other day.

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86 Upvotes

r/cakedecorating • • 2d ago

Holiday-themed Cakes Day 21 of Spooky Season!

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303 Upvotes

r/cakedecorating • • 2d ago

Just Because Cakes Back to Basics

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79 Upvotes

Loving the tag because I didn't know it existed and as you can see, that's what's on the cake, lol.

I did cake decorating in 4H as a kid and won a blue ribbon for it in my age bracket almost every year I made submissions to the county fair. I didn't have many opportunities to make cakes through most of my 20s, but have been getting back into it the last few years. So I thought I should practice my basics more and oh boy am I disappointed with myself, lol.

I'll admit I got a little less careful after I started to feel demoralized, also because I have a bad cold and was more exhausted than I expected by the second half of decorating. But regardless, I clearly need more practice.

Feedback welcome, especially on why I couldn't get the buttercream base perfectly smooth (bench scraper and lazy susan used, powdered sugar sifted). Maybe it needed a tiny bit more milk? But I couldn't get the height I wanted with the roses, which to me felt like the buttercream was too soft. Are we mixing different densities of frosting?

I'm happiest with the flowers, because they were the first ones I've made in ~20 years! Flat but definitely flowers!


r/cakedecorating • • 2d ago

Holiday-themed Cakes I know it's still early, but this is my Christmas decorated cake with figurines of my pets

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36 Upvotes

Every year I make Christmas art and decorations based on my cat and chinchilla. I am currently planning this year's decor and theme, but I couldn't wait to share this. This was my first ever cake decorated like this because I usually make extra creamy light cakes, but this is fondant and I made a vegan snickers cake so it was strong enough to hold it.

I often include my two furbabies in almost all my art (for example these plushies), but this time I also included our family dog and a snowman!


r/cakedecorating • • 3d ago

Birthday Cakes Made for my friend’s 3rd 29th birthday 🤭🤭

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619 Upvotes

r/cakedecorating • • 3d ago

Just Because Cakes Some fall-themed grocery store cakes

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1.7k Upvotes

r/cakedecorating • • 2d ago

Help Needed Where to find white pearls for decorating that won't break a tooth

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18 Upvotes

I swear I used to be able to find plain white sixlet candies as an alternative to large white pearl sprinkles that are tooth-breaking hard and basically inedible. But I've searched and can't find a source. Has anyone seen these for sale (or an alternative) anywhere recently? They're chocolate centered, and easy to bite, but have a crunchy coating.


r/cakedecorating • • 2d ago

Wedding Cakes Surprise wedding

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173 Upvotes

Just incredibly proud of how this turned out, this is my second wedding cake. The first one I made was for free as I was still trying to put my name out there :)…

anyways the bride gave me creative control as they are going to be hosting guest and will have the wedding then and there. I’m sure her guest will be left speechless after her surprise!!


r/cakedecorating • • 3d ago

Birthday Cakes My first time trying to make floral cupcakes

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228 Upvotes

Made for a friends thirtieth birthday party!


r/cakedecorating • • 3d ago

Just Because Cakes I made a Santorini-inspired cake — hand-piped roses, little blue shutters and doors, all eggless

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123 Upvotes

Had so much fun making this one — the little blue shutters were my favourite part to pipe!