The Vintage Cake Piping Guide (Digital Download)

Learn to pipe the trending vintage (Lambeth-style) cake at home. This printable guide from Party Mix takes you from your first shell border to a fully piped, cherry-topped vintage cake, step by step.

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What's inside (22-page A4 PDF)

• Tool kit and buttercream: what you need, plus a stable piping buttercream recipe with stiff, medium and soft consistencies (and tips for Perth summer heat)
• Vintage tip chart: the 10 tips that matter (1M, 2D, 6B, 32, 21, 18, 104, 3, 2 and 352) and what each one pipes
• 12 techniques, step by step: shell and reverse shell borders, rosettes, stars and drop flowers, garland swags, drop strings, C-scrolls, dangles and pearls, ruffles, bows, leaves and pearl borders
• 4 full cake designs: Cherry on Top, Pretty in Pink heart cake, Sage Garden and Baby Blue Bows, each with a tip list, palette and order of work
• 6 vintage colour palettes with gel-mixing tips
• Planning page and troubleshooting table for the most common piping problems
• 3 printable practice sheets: slip them under baking paper and pipe over the guides
• True-size cake-top marking templates for 6" and 7" cakes (8 and 12 sections)

Shop as you learn

Every tip in the guide has a QR code and clickable link to that tip on partymixperth.com, and you can watch the matching 15-second video tutorials on our tip product pages.

Good to know

• Format: PDF, A4, prints on standard home printers. Print templates at 100% / actual size.
• Suitable for beginners to intermediate decorators.
• For personal use. Please don't share or resell the file. You're welcome to sell cakes you make using these techniques.