Realistic cake tutorial round up
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So without further ado...
1. Realistic apple cake
Whether someone is the apple of your eye, or you want to gift a teacher this sweet cake, Sweet Little Treat Cakes shows you how to create this perfect apple cake with step-by-step photos here:
2. Ribs and fries
Nope, not for this vegetarian baker who created a cake and cookie version of a rack of ribs.
3. Bowl of Salad cake
Does cake count as part of the nutritional five-a-day? We suspect not, but it's still another great food tease by Ann Reardon of How to Cake That. Learn to make this realistic salad cake with croutons, chocolate cake and wafer paper.
4. Realistic African Elephant
The cake queen of animals, aka Dot Klerck generously shares her elephant cake tutorial with detailed notes for scaling any cake plan you dream up. And she would know, after all she made this cake LIFE SIZED too!
5. Air Jordan Sneaker Cake
Nike endorses you JUST DO IT and make this cake. No? Well, here's the video to show you how to create Air Jorndon sneaker cake anyway...
6. Did you say BACON???
Lean back and relax with this bacon strip fondant tutorial. It certainly would make a better prank than my puns.
7. Glam handbag clutch
We bet if you placed this cake on the table at your next dinner party, you'd fool a lot of people. Jo Tan of Scrumptious cakes definitely fooled us.
8. Steak Cake
Lies. Lies! It's all lies. Or actually cake, in this instance. And we like ours well done like this tutorial.
9. Popcorn explosion
...is what happens when you get distracted in the kitchen checking Facebook. How clever is this cake by Ann Reardon of How to Cake That?
10. When life gives you lemons....
You turn it into cake! At least that's what Natalie Sideserf of Sideserf cakes did with this hyperreal lemon cake. We love her use of colour and shading and texture trick for the lemon skin. See it here:
11. Snapper cake
There's plenty of cake in the sea, err, it's a snap - no. Enough puns and just check out this realistic snapper cake tutorial by Nina Blackburn of Make Pretty Cakes
12. Knowledge is power.
Cake knowledge in the form of a realistic stacked book cake, that is. Karin Klenner of Sweet Little Treat Cakes shows us how she made this realistic NOVELty cake.
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