Extravagant, over the top, mesmerizing, cake. The 1700s French style cake design has traveled its way through a few centuries and landed all over our social media timelines. This vintage cake design is the exact opposite of the minimalist movement, proving that sometimes more is just….more!
The vintage or lambeth cake design is trending on social media right now. I will never tire of how styles always circle back around. We look to the art, fashion and cake designs of past centuries and put our modern twist on them to create something new and beautiful. This is a cake design tutorial. I will give step by step instructions on how to make this exact vintage cake design so that you can impress them all, Marie Antionette-style at your next event!
Step 1: Bake up your favorite cake and make a double batch of frosting, you’re going to need a lot of frosting for all of that piping! I decided to make a two tier cake for this design to really make it pop!
If you’re looking for a delicious and straightforward cake recipe, try my Classic Vanilla Layer Cake, a favorite of many of my readers!
Step 2: Once the cakes have cooled completely (preferably chilled), crumb coat and then cover them in frosting.
Check out my full tutorial on How To Frost a Cake if you want to know how to get the best results every time!
Step 3: While the cakes are firming up in the fridge, color your frosting and fill your frosting bags fitted with various tips. I chose to make my cake monochrome using two shades of burnt orange.
To achieve this design I used 1 large star tip, 1 small star tip, 1 open circle (plain) tip size 3, and 1 (small) petal tip.
Step 4: If you choose to make your cake two tiered like mine, now is the time to stack your cake. Place your bottom layer of cake onto your final serving dish and then place four straw dowels evenly apart into the bottom tier of the cake. Since my cakes are 8” and 6” I want to make sure that all four dowels placed into the 8” cake will be underneath the 6” cake placed on top of it. To do this, I lightly trace a 6” circle on the top of the (cold) 8” cake.
Step 5: Finally, pipe various designs around the bottom borders of both cake layers. I start with a shell border using my large star tip. Then I use the small star tip to pipe a smaller shell border on top of the large shell border. I then use a circle cutter to make indents to indicate where you would like to pipe your ruffles. I pipe ruffles using a small petal tip. Repeat all steps on the top tier!
Depending on how much time you have it might be a good idea to pop the cake into the refrigerator between piping each new design so that what you pipe doesn’t get messed up by the next design.
There you have it! A very beautiful vintage cake design for your next event!
Happy Decorating!