Why have palette knife cakes become so hugely popular? I think it’s for many reasons, but mainly because:

Palette knife white chocolate ganache wedding cake by Emma Page, Floral Cake Revolution.

Fondant cakes have massively fallen out of favour. For decades the finish of choice for wedding and luxury cakes, this plasticky sheet icing embellished with inedible hand-modelled flowers is no longer the fashionable option. Its immaculate polar white finish (in the right hands!) comes at a huge cost in terms of flavour and mouthfeel. Yuck.
Palette knife cakes can be decorated with a range of silky smooth and delicious buttercreams or, my favourite, white chocolate ganache. Not as sweet as fondant and incredibly moreish.
While rustic buttercream wedding cakes have definitely enjoyed a moment, the recent trend for dressing them with fresh flowers was short-lived. It’s incredibly difficult to keep fresh flowers looking immaculate without water for a number of hours. Also, more flowers than your would believe are extremely toxic or will have ben sprayed with harmful chemicals.
A popular alternative to the sugarpaste flowers that adorn fondant cakes is piping with buttercream. Hundreds of different flowers can be piped with buttercream using a variety of tips. Piping buttercream flowers was a huge craze that got me into cake decorating about 10 years ago. It’s fun, the flowers are gorgeous and it tastes delicious BUT piped flowers are heavy and when they get a bit warm they fall off. SO you can only really arrange them around the steps between tiers or on the top. Also, piping generates A LOT of mess. Once, after a flower piping class with only six students, it took three of us three hours to clear up all the bags and clean out the tips. That stuff can’t go down the drain remember!! Lots get wasted.
Palette knife cake decorating requires hardly any equipment - just a couple of palette knives and a smooth board - so the clearing up takes minutes. That’s one of the reasons the technique is so popular with cake makers.
Palette knife flowers stay put. The technique adheres the shapes to the cake with a sound footing, so they can be transported and left in position with ease.
Palette knife decorating is fun and addictive. Once you’ve mastered the basics, it’s easy to adapt the shapes you have learned to create hundreds of different flowers. As you mix the colours up as you go, there’s no waste.
All palette knife cakes are unique. It’s impossible to copy another design as the way we use our knives is as individual as handwriting. Whether you opt for a blowsy vintage rose cascade or contemporary abstract composition, one thing is for sure: it will truly be a one-off!
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