The single thing that separates a home-made-looking cake from a professional-looking cake is most often not the decoration — it's the surface beneath it. A beautifully piped border around a lumpy, fingerprinted sugarpaste finish still looks amateurish. A simple ribbon around a flawlessly smooth, sharp-edged cake looks expensive and deliberate.
Covering a cake with sugarpaste is the skill that unlocks everything else in cake decoration. Once you can do it — and do it smoothly — every other technique becomes possible. Sugar flowers, painted designs, textured panels, tiered wedding cakes: they all start with this.
By Kay Bourke, Founder of Beau Products Kay has been handmaking flowerpaste in Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire since 2005. Beau's 50+ colour flowerpaste range is colour-matched to our sugarpaste collection and made in a certified nut-free facility. Over 20 years, Kay...
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