Dot cakes

6. Whimsical Dot Delight Indulge in the playful charm of this delightful round cake adorned with buttercream piping in tiny, colourful dots. Against a

This fall, you can be a bake sale hero without breaking a sweat. This polka dot confection from the charming baking book Simply Sweet ColorCakes is

This cake was created by simply piping small star dots in a wavy line pattern.Pro tip: Whenever you’re piping star dots like this, you want to hold the tip in once place while you squeeze, then stop squeezing before you pull away. If you keep squeezing as you pull away, you’ll end up up with sort of pointy looking blobs instead of nice neat little stars.

Siân-Amy Pettit, from Columbus, Ohio in the US, is a self-taught baker who never stops learning and experimenting. One of the new techniques that Siân-Amy is implementing on her amazing cakes is dotting, or pointillism, as the artist calls it. The cakes decorated in this way remind us of beads or little crystals, and their texture looks so exotic that it’s hard to fight the temptation to stroke them with our fingers.