Cake! magazine by Australian Cake Decorating Network August 2015 | Page 80

as how to fill a piping bag and the
basic techniques you need.
Every flower shows step-by-step
photographic details on how to create
them and how to use your new found
skills to create stunning cake designs.
The flowers are presented through
the colour spectrum so when you look
through the book you’ll see the lovely
rainbow effect.

Have you had any buttercream
disasters?

What is best about this
book is that we have
narrowed down the piping
techniques to just 10 main
ones. These are all you
need to master and keep
practicing, and you will
be able to do all the 100
flowers in the book...and
even more!

Oh absolutely! When we were in
the learning stage, we had a cake
order and we covered a cake with
buttercream without crumb-coating it.
Then as the celebrant was about to
blow the candles on the cake, the back
part of the cake, the buttercream came What is your favourite buttercream
off. Good thing she was a good friend, project to date?
haha!
Our favourite so far is our 8ft tall Grand
Display Cake that we did for the Cake
International Show in