Brush Embroidery

Brush embroidery is a fun way to add a lace look to a cake. The cake can be covered in fondant or crusted buttercream. I have used buttercream and royal icing for the embroidery, but prefer the royal icing.

Pipe frosting with a round tip onto the cake in the desired pattern. Take a paint brush and pull the inside half of the line inwards to fill in the gaps, leaves, petals, ect. Leave the outside half of the line raised to give it a 2D look.

After the icing hardens it is also fun to go over it with luster dust to give the embroidery some shimmer!

See Wilton's step by step pics! http://www.wilton.com/technique/Brush-embroidery

My Happy Place

I have always enjoyed making cakes and once I joined the online cake community my eyes were opened to vast possibilities. I went from making a few a year to at least one cake a week, then begging people to let me make them cake just to try a new technique. A girl's gotta fund the habit! Ü

I've decided to take the habit to the next step and take orders! If baking cakes is my "happy place" why wouldn't I want to do it all the time? So I say . . . let them eat cake !

This cake is a 10", 6" cake with cornflower blue rolled buttercream fondant. Brush embroidery flowers using royal icing. Bordered with ribbon.