Flavoring buttercream is not hard to do; all it takes is a bit of patience, a good extract, and a great buttercream. Place the buttercream into a bowl and add the extract a bit at a time and taste as you go along to find your right formula. Where I work we add 1 ounce flavor to 3 pounds buttercream. Once you find that perfect combination, always remember to write it down so you have it for next time!
Non traditional cakes are the new trend! Most brides realize that they probably will only have one multi tiered cake ever, so why have it traditional? They have the cake personalized to their style, what ever that may be~ multi colored, topsy turvy, bottoms up. What ever you like is what you should get. Remember it is your day!
There seems to be a million of recipes out there. So how do you choose which one to use? I search a variety of websites and find about 5-7 different recipes. From here I look to see which ones are similar to each other, I usually choose one of those. I usually go with the ones that are the most healthy for me.
Cows milk can be substituted ounce per ounce with rice or soy milk
This recipe can use any type of milk, it does not have to be lactose free….
Add all the ingredients listed below into a bowl and place over a double boiler. Simmer the bowl over boiling water stirring occasionally for about an hour and a half or until it reaches a consistency you like. Remove from heat and add any extra ingredients such as nuts, raisins, or cinnamon. Enjoy!
1 cup rice
2 cups water
4 cups milk
1/4 cup splenda
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
I prefer to put the color tier that will stand out more on the bottom, that way the cake seem more appealing to the eye. On this cake, I would have put the yellow tier on the bottom and the white tier on the top. 
This is one of our under the sea cakes. It is sometime fun to make when the customer just gives you a theme. At other times, we need to follow a color pallette or drawing instructions.
For this cake I do I do see some 3D elements, yet there could be more. The sea weed could be higher and the color could be mixed better instead of just being striped. The coral could have had thicker lines to make it look more realistic and those fish a child could have drawn. Just by adding a little more detail can make a world of difference in your cakes! Also, if they chose a darker color bow for the topper it would have pulled this cake together better.
This seems to be a simple cake to do, but I am wondering where the white is at on the topper. I feel that if this cake had white squiggles instead of tan ones for the topper this cake would have popped more.
I like the simply white design on this cake against the dark background. However, as far as the flowers go that is where you can add color. I suggest either having a brown and white cake or going heavy on color flowers and forgetting the white all together. 
This cake has a few issues. First, I will mention the black and white things, what are they exactly and why are they there? They don’t seem to blend with the cake, so why not just leave them off.
Next, I will mention the combination painting and airbrushing on the butterflies and the leaves. I’m all for both, however if the leaves and butterflies have lines they should both either have painted lines or airbrush lines. Finally, the spots of icing that are not smooth. By doing this the decorator just made the cake look like it had areas of mess ups, either ice the cake smooth or leave it choppy.
This cake has a few different colors on it, yet the decorator decided to write in a color that blended with the cake. Always remember to write in a color that will stand out from your design!
Once again, I see a cake that has something not centered on it, this time it is the twin blocks. My suggest would be to put the middle to blocks down 1st than to add the 1st and last letter. By doing that, the middle letters will be in the center of the cake.
This cake looks nice being fondant covered, but the decorator made a mistake by not finishing the ribbon in gold. The bow has 2 stripes of gold on each piece, yet the ribbon only has 1. I think the cake looks a bit unfinished and would have looked better with 2 strips of gold on the bow.
I think that if you placed this cake next to a real Louis Vouittion hat it would look similar, however the work is a bit sloppy. The writing is not centered and you can see the cardboard that the hat was placed on. The cardboard could have easily been trimmed down to be the same size as the cake or a border could have been added to cover it up.
Well this is an interesting cake, retro flowers! I probably would not have known what they were if someone did not tell me though. I think this cake would have been much nicer if the leaves would have actually looked like leaves instead of triangles.