Cake Journal

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Lindsay's Description:

Packed with fantastic tutorials, tips, news, product reviews and advice, recipes and giveaways, CakeJournal has to be at the top of any cake decorator's blog list.  Louise is the amazing and generous cake artist who shares her skills, wisdom, and beautiful cake designs.  Combined with her obvious passion for all things cake, Louise works hard to make CakeJournal such a wonderful place to visit.

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Louise is the founder and editor of CakeJournal.com. She is a passionate self taught cake artist who has been doing cake decorating for the last five years.


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Recent Updates at Cake Journal

Valentine chocolate cupcakes

30 January 2012

Today I have been in the kitchen baking chocolate cupcakes. Since Valentine’s Day is soon approaching, I thought that some pink fondant hearts and a little pink sprinkle on the cupcakes would be in place. I have frosted them with Angle Feather Icing, which is good together with the chocolate ...

Handcrafted Sugar Flowers with Jacqueline Butler

24 January 2012

You may know Jacqueline Butler as the artist behind beautiful handcrafted sugar flowers like Ranunculus, Peonies and Hydrangeas. She is a highly requested sugar craft teacher and have now started working together with Craftsy, where she is taking online video courses to a whole new level. With ...

Classic vanilla cupcake recipe

18 January 2012

There are tons of recipes for the most classic cupcake of them all. The vanilla cupcake! I have lost track on how many different recipes, that I have tried to myself. Some was good, some was bad and some failed to a disaster. There are many different opinions on what makes a good vanilla cupcake. ...

The gingerbread house

27 December 2011

It’s been some very busy days around Christmas but I still wanted to share my little gingerbread house with you. It is inspired by a gingerbread house that I saw in the Martha Stewart Holiday Sweets magazine from 2009. The roof is all glittered with lots of sugar. I have used gelatin sheets ...

How to make a gingerbread Christmas cookie tree

12 December 2011

This is a tutorial for the gingerbread Christmas cookie tree that I made last year. I used my Christmas cookie tree as a centerpiece on our buffet and there were such a wonderful smell of cinnamon, ginger and cloves during the Christmas days. You could also make a little forest with tree’s in ...

CakeJournals November favourites

24 November 2011

It’s time for another round of CakeJournals favourites. This month it’s about snowflakes and smart storage. Snowflake cookie cutters: My newest buy are these two snowflake cookie cutter sets. You...

How to make a gum paste peony (part 2)

18 November 2011

Here is the second part of my tutorial on how to make a gum paste peony. In this tutorial you will end up with a finished gum paste peony dusted...

How to make a gum paste peony (part 1)

09 November 2011

I know that a lot of you have asked if I could make a tutorial on how to make my gum paste peony flowers, so here’s a little treat for...

CakeJournals October favourites

31 October 2011

The last day of October is slowly running out together with ghosts and ghouls. So CakeJournals October Halloween favourites is comming your way. No doubt treats for Halloween have been...

Halloween poison cake recipe

28 October 2011

I know that many of you have seen vibrant coloured cakes for years. But back in the days when I was a kid, a cake with this colour was very...