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✨ Decorating Tube of the Week ✨

This week we’re featuring Ateco Tip #030 – Ruffle Tip!
This tip is great for creating ruffles, ribbon swags, scalloped borders, bows, flower petals, and vintage-style details.

It’s a fun tip to practice when you want to add movement, texture, and soft detail to your cakes, cupcakes, and cookies.

🎂 Practice tip: Keep steady pressure and use gentle movement for soft, even folds.

What would you use this tip for first?

🌊🏝️ These adorable beach donuts by are decorated with colorful underwater details that are beautifully crafted with Satin Ice fondant! 🐚🐠✨

Create fun desserts with premium fondant from SatinIce.com!

Our Cake Craft Shoppe Weekly Skills Series continues with Technique Tips & Tricks #007: Piping Dots – The Basics! 🎂✨

This week’s guide introduces one of the simplest—and most versatile—buttercream techniques. Piped dots can be used to create borders, accents, balloons, clouds and playful designs on cakes and cupcakes.

The printable sheet includes step-by-step photos, round-tip size examples, medium-consistency icing guidance, the proper 90-degree bag position, chef’s tips and a practice section at the bottom. Print it, laminate it and practice again and again as you work toward smooth, even dots!

Ready for hands-on instruction? Our Introduction to Cake Decorating class begins August 16.

🎂✨ 4TH YEAR YOUTH BAKING ACADEMY — BACK TO PIPING! ✨🎂

Our 4th Year Academy students jumped right back into piping during their weekend session—and it definitely did not take them long to find their rhythm again! ❤️

They spent the weekend refreshing their piping skills and working on 3D piping techniques that add incredible dimension, texture, and that extra WOW factor to a cake. Just take a look at some of the practice work from the weekend! 👀👏

This year, our 4th Year students will be diving deeper into:

🎂 Wedding Cake Piping & Advanced Techniques
🏗️ Cake Structure & Construction
✏️ Wedding Cake Design & Planning
💼 The Business of Baking — learning more about what it takes to operate, work within, and be part of a successful baking business.

📚 SPECIAL SHOUT-OUT — Ceri Griffiths!!!!!!

This year, our students will also be working from Ceri Griffiths’ Border Inspirations Book. We laminated the practice sheets from the book so our Academy students can pipe directly over the designs, practice them repeatedly, wipe them clean, and start again.

If you are interested in learning Vintage Piping, this is an AMAZING resource to learn from! Vintage piping is having such a moment in cake design right now, and these classic techniques give students a wonderful foundation for creating today's beautiful, elaborate designs.

And a very special THANK YOU to Satin Ice for continuing to support our Academy students by providing fondant and meringue powder for our Royal Icing. Your support allows our students to practice, experiment, and continue developing their skills. 🤎🩵

We are SO proud of this group for jumping right in and piping some amazing designs. And this is only the practice...

Next month, they start bringing these techniques to their cakes! 😍🎂

Stay tuned. We have a feeling Year 4 is going to be pretty spectacular!

Mad's and Aliyah had the great honor of being invited to Judge at the The Company OnStage, Inc. A Taste of the Season Cake Competition.

They had an amazing time seeing the beautiful cake designs, meet new colleges in the industry and being part of such a wonderful event

Thank you to the The Company OnStage, Inc. for the invitation - we are looking forward to next year.

Be sure to visit The Company OnStage, Inc. to check out their upcoming shows and support this amazing organization.

With Johnson Bros. Bakery Supply – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

🌻✨ Cake Inspiration Collection #008 ✨🌻

Sunflower Buttercream Cake

Bring a little sunshine to your dessert table! This elegant sunflower cake combines smooth buttercream, rich golden tones, delicate greenery, and a beautiful handcrafted sunflower for a design that's both timeless and cheerful.

Whether you're celebrating a birthday, bridal shower, baby shower, graduation, or simply gathering with friends, this cake captures the warmth and beauty of late summer and early fall. Pair it with coordinating cupcakes or mini pies for a stunning dessert display your guests won't forget!

🌻 Get the Look at Cake Craft Shoppe!

We have everything you need to create this beautiful design:
🧁 Buttercream Icing
🎨 Yellow, Brown & Green Gel Colors
🌻 Piping Tips & Decorating Bags
🍰 Palette Knives & Flower Nails
✨ Sugar Crystals & Decorating Accents
🎂 Turntables, Bench Scrapers & More!

💡 Baker's Tip: Build your sunflower one layer at a time. Pipe the center first, then add petals in overlapping rows, chilling the cake between layers to help each petal keep its shape and create a more realistic flower.

📌 Save this inspiration for your next celebration, and don't forget to tag when you create your own version—we love seeing your beautiful creations!

💙 Cake Craft Shoppe – Where Every Cake is Special, Every Time!

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