Woodland Wedding Cake Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Deborah starts off this tutorial by explaining the design and then moves on to adding the woodgrain effect to the top of each tier and also covers the cake drum in a woodgrain effect. Be sure to watch the start of the next lesson before leaving the tops of the tiers and cake drum to firm up as Deborah adds a little more detail.

In this lesson Deborah adds colour to the woodgrain to give it that realistic look. Then attaches the bottom tier to the cake drum ready to start covering it in the wood bark effect.

Here, Deborah explains how to work out how much sugarpaste you need to cover your cakes if using the Karen Davies Rustic Woodland Bark mould. Deborah then uses the mould to create the wood bark and uses dusts to create depth and tone to the bark. She then attaches it to the cake and blends the joins.

Don’t worry if you don’t have the Rustic Woodland Bark mould, in this lesson Deborah creates the wood bark without using a mould.

In this lesson Deborah adds the heart and initials to the wood bark for the middle tier. Deborah then paints them and attaches it to the middle tier.

Deborah starts the decorations – mixing the colour for the leaves and makes both wired and un-wired leaves.

In this lesson Deborah makes mushrooms of differing sizes and adds tone to them.

Deborah makes the acorns in this lesson, mixing the colours for the different parts, adding texture and finishes them by adding stalks and some colour dust.

In this lesson Deborah makes the cute deer cake topper and explains how she mixed the colour.

Deborah makes the squirrel cake topper in this lesson, showing all the steps to create this cute topper.

Now it’s time to make the last cake topper, the fox. Deborah explains how to create the colour for the fox and shows all the steps needs to model this cute cake topper.

In this lesson Deborah dusts the leaves, tapes them together and adds some glaze to them to give them a realistic look. Deborah then glazes the cake to give it an even more realistic look and attaches the leaves to the cake.

It’s now time to see it all come together. Deborah explains where she plans to place everything on the cake and then attaches everything in place and finishes it with a champagne ribbon trim.

Deborah shares some other ideas to use on your own design.

In this lesson, Deborah talks about pricing and selling a cake like this.