Vintage Cakes, Modern Methods: A Review

I watched the videos and thought I would put a little blurb together and be done with it. I started to draft a post and quickly realized that my heart just was not in it. I didn't feel completely comfortable speaking to the techniques, without actually trying them. So I did...and I am extremely pleased with the results.

I have purchased a number of Craftsy.com courses and have no problem recommending them - they are quality courses taught by industry professionals. What I enjoy most is the interactive nature in which they are delivered and the life-time access to purchased courses. And the cost is rather reasonable in my opinion, especially when they go on sale, which seems to be quite often. I mean, when will you ever get to take a course with Jaqueline Butler for less than $40? Her's was the first cake decorating course I purchased, by the way.

Vintage Cakes, Modern Methods teaches a number of techniques that are not only innovative, but with the instructions provided,  easy to execute. Look what I was able to create with a little royal icing and some lustre dust!!

In addition to the gilded filigree cage, Colette shares her techniques for creating 3-D gum paste flower petals and leaves with an embroidered effect, brush embroidery, hand-sculpted Victorian cameo jewelry and antiquing fondant to name a few. She also offers many tips - all useful in cake design in general. One of my favourite is the use of adding tape, you know the stuff from adding machines, to help create evenly spaced placeholders when adding stripes to a cake.

• A lovely single-tier cake with a brush-embroidery flower design;
• A conversation piece, three-tier cake complete with three-dimensional peonies and gilded cages; and
• A stunning three-tier antiqued cake with cameo embellishments.