I saw these demonstrated at one of the first Guild Meetings I ever went to. Great for a kids party, cupcake toppers, or just for fun if you don’t feel like getting the modelling fondant out.

This would also be something fun and easy to do with the kids, and really not too messy! They can eat any mess!

This tutorial on making a Run-out was created by our English cake friend Shenaz.

Photos courtesy of Shenaz

This tutorial is by our Canadian cake friend Fascination she says she learnt the procedure this through a demo by Geraldine of Creative Cutters) – The process is called TENTING.

I, myself attempted to use this with an Australian box, although the shape is slightly different, following the basic principles of this tutorial does work! In fact our end tabs are bigger, so when you get to step 7 taping them together would create more of a square shape than a triangle, handy dependant on the shape of the cake. In addition, even though some of our larger boxes are 2 pieces I don’t see why you couldn’t do this with the base of the box and some cardboard taped where the lid would be in a similar fashion!

Here’s the step by step!

1 ) You will need 2 boxes of the same size as the cake board under your cake. we will now refer to them as Box 1 and Box 2 (B1 and B2 in the images.)

2 ) Fold all flaps on both B1 and B2

3 ) Place B2 on top of B1 as shown in the image. The bottoms & sides are stacked, but the tops of the boxes are now on opposite sides.

4 ) Start to assemble the box; fold up on one side, & slide the flaps of both B1 and B2 together into the slots as shown. Now you can slide the cake into the box, over the opposite side, see cake board in photo.

5 ) Fold up & slide the stacked flaps in place on this second side.

6 ) Tape the top (what would normally be the flap (lip) that is tucked into the box, or folded over the front)

7 ) Tape the side flaps in place (if the cake is wide even at the top, you would not bring the sides together, & you would leave the top open or covered with foil)

8 ) For the purpopes of this demo, I used 2 small boxes (6 inches) , as you can see the final height of the closed box is 8 inches high. You can extrapolate for larger boxes.

Do you have a way of boxing up tall cakes that you’d like to share? We love hearing about different ways to do things, so feel free to comment or drop me a line through the contact page.

Pictures courtesy of Fascination

By our very sweet, lovely, flower extraordinaire cake friend Yana.

Cut a square of baking paper. Cut the square into 4 triangles.

On this pictures I used left hand due to the camera. Use your right hand to fold the right corner

to the middle of the triangle

For chocolate you do not use a tip, simply snip the end the size you want, for royal icing you can insert a tip.

Pictures courtesy of Yana

So I did promise a follow on from Pam’s Four Tier Wedding Cake post in which we spotlighted her daughter’s wedding cake which she made.

There is a tutorial a lot of cake friends recommend by a Cake Artist called Earlene of Earlene’s Cakes for making Edible Sugar Pearl’s, and Pam used this tutorial when making the pearls for her daughter’s wedding cake, we suggest you check out the links to Earlene’s tutorials, but we show you Pam’s pictures for something different! ;D In addition, there is now a chart to help you calculate how many pearls you would need on different sized cakes.

So it’s not very difficult to make your own pearls and can even be done in front of the TV, the upside is that you can do them in the colour of your choice, to match or compliment your cake.

Roll a piece of fondant out evenly, you can use a pasta machine or spacers, try to use something you can use again if you are trying to keep them uniform in size for a particular project. The thickness of the fondant, can be varied dependent on your needs and size of pearl, there is no hard and fast rule with this.

While you can use a small round cutter, the tips or ends of different shaped piping nozzles are perfect for this process. Simply cut out the shape, roll into a ball and if you want to put in a container with some shimmer dust and swirl, store till needed!

Viola!

Photos courtesy of Pam