The Kumora notebook

The cake journal.

Recipes to keep. Details to try. Something beautiful to make.

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Original concept of a blue vanilla layer cake with pale blue filling, visible halved red cherries and a small cherry topping.

Decorating

5 min readA little practice

Blue Cherry Layer Cake: A Stable Filling Guide

Assemble blue-tinted vanilla layers with pale blue buttercream and pitted cherries.

Original concept of a single tall ivory round cake with burgundy ruffles, hanging swags, ivory shells and small bead chains.

Decorating

5 min readIntermediate

Ivory and Burgundy Lambeth Cake: Swags and Ruffles

Decorate one tall ivory cake with burgundy ruffles, layered swags, shells and bead chains.

Original concept of a small ivory bento cake with an affectionate original lion couple illustration and two pink buttercream hearts.

Decorating

5 min readIntermediate

Lion Couple Bento Cake with a Buttercream Transfer

Make an original lion-and-lioness illustration on a small ivory cake using a parchment transfer, warm brown colors and two tiny hearts.

Original concept of four square cheesecake bars with thin pink crumb bases, ivory middles, pink tops and fine biscuit crumbs.

Recipes

5 min readA little practice

Strawberry-Vanilla No-Bake Cheesecake Bars

An original, not kitchen-tested cheesecake-bar recipe with a pink crumb base, ivory vanilla middle, strawberry-pink top and cookie crumbs.

Original concept of a round powder-blue-to-ivory ombré cake with horizontal frosting bands and a small pale blue blossom cluster.

Decorating

5 min readA little practice

Blue Ombré Cake with Edible Five-Petal Blossoms

Blend powder-blue buttercream into ivory horizontal bands, then add edible five-petal blossoms.

Original concept of a deep chocolate-brown buttercream cake with scattered white daisies and yellow centers.

Decorating

5 min readA little practice

Chocolate Daisy Cake with Piped White Flowers

Decorate smooth cocoa buttercream with white daisies made on parchment.

Original concept of a tall ivory cake with fine vertical buttercream pleats and an edible pale pink blossom crown.

Decorating

5 min readIntermediate

Ivory Pleated Cake with an Edible Pink Floral Crown

Create fine vertical buttercream pleats on a tall ivory cake and finish the rim with small edible pink blossoms and piped leaves.

Original concept of three exposed chocolate cake layers with light cocoa frosting dollops and edible daisy decorations.

Decorating

5 min readA little practice

Naked Chocolate Cake with Edible Daisy Flowers

Stack exposed chocolate layers with cocoa buttercream dollops, then add rosettes and edible sugar daisies without unidentified fresh flowers.

Original concept of an ivory round cake with large sculpted purple buttercream flowers and sparse edible gold accents.

Decorating

5 min readA little practice

Ivory Cake with Purple Palette-Knife Flowers

Sculpt broad purple buttercream petals on an ivory cake.

AI-generated concept of a single black cylinder cake with burgundy buttercream roses along the rim and front side, fine gray-green vines and small lobed leaves.

Decorating

9 min readIntermediate

Black Rose Vine Cake: Burgundy Buttercream Flowers

Build a manageable black cylinder cake with burgundy buttercream roses and gray-green vines.

AI-generated concept of a round burgundy cake with three ivory palette-knife blossoms, muted green leaves and brown frosting stems on an ivory plate.

Decorating

7 min readIntermediate

Burgundy Magnolia Cake: Palette-Knife Buttercream Guide

Paint ivory magnolia-like buttercream blossoms on a burgundy cake.

AI-generated concept of a single forest-green cylinder cake with matching shell borders, two swag rows, gold sugar pearls and burgundy modeled bows.

Decorating

8 min readIntermediate

Forest-Green Vintage Cake with Edible Burgundy Bows

Decorate a forest-green cake with shell borders, two rows of swags, gold sugar pearls and edible burgundy bows.