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This rainbow heart cake is one of my all-time favorite cakes! The original design (above) was created by the fabulous cake designer, Erin of Wild Orchid Baking and you may remember, Kate’s birthday cake last year was totally inspired by it! My local baker, Bonnie from Inspired Sugar did a beautiful job replicating Erin’s design (below).
I am so excited to report that Erin just published a book because she has so many amazing cake designs (be sure to check out her super popular Facebook page!) Her book, Great Cake Decorating is filled with instructions and ideas for fabulous cakes. I have never tried using fondant but with her book, I definitely feel much more equipped to give it a go! Erin starts with the basics and explains all of the best tools to have on hand for making beautiful cakes. She then gets into more specific designs, tips and tricks!
Here are a few of my favorite cakes from the book…
…and one that isn’t in the book, but is part of one her cake decorating classes on Craftsy!
Darling, right?
What do you think? Are you ready to give cake decorating a try? This book will definitely help you get started!
Lucky you, we are giving away THREE copies of Erin’s Great Cake Decorating Book, along with a set of her rainbow fondant hearts and fondant lowercase alphabet from her Etsy shop!
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THIS IS A SPONSORED POST. THE TOMKAT STUDIO HAS RECEIVED A COPY OF THE BOOK IN EXCHANGE FOR PROMOTING, HOWEVER ALL OPINIONS STATED ARE MY OWN. THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH OR SPONSORED BY FACEBOOK. OPEN TO US RESIDENTS ONLY. WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN AND POSTED ON THIS ORIGINAL POST WITHIN ONE WEEK OF CONTEST END.
May 13, 2014
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What a fantastic giveaway!!!!
I would love to thumb thru these books and make each one. than you for the opportunity to win them.
What a great prize!
Love this!
Awesome book! Would definitely inspire more cakes for me to make 🙂
I’m dreaming of making a rainbow cake!
I’m dreaming of making a princess-y cake for my daughter! Thanks for the chance. Blessings!
I would love to win this. Wonderful prize.
I loved the rainbow cake, planning on doing that one for my birthday too <3
I would love to win this book. I’m working on becoming a better decorator and this would bean amazing tool
So cute! Love the designs and would love a copy of her book!!!
Cute cakes!
i’m so horrible at cakes, they always fall apart on me! i’d love to learn!
Love the letters!
I LOVE cake decorating for DIYers! This would be perfect and give me so many ideas! 🙂
Precious! Love those cakes!
Beautiful! I would love this book!!
I’ve been wanting to make the rainbow cake ever since I first saw it on your blog.
I was looking at Craftsy Cake Classes the other day! So excited to try some of these ideas.
So exciting! Just in time for my little ones birthdays!
I dream of making my kids next birthday cake instead of relying on store bought!
I’m getting much better at baking and this would be perfect to have because my son will be turning 2years old in July and I’d have some ideas to make him a fancy cake 😉 a great giveaway! Good luck everyone!!!
would love to win…..
Always wanted to know how they make those gorgeous cakes!!! Would love to win!
Totally inspired by the few cakes you put up. Going to buy the book to see what the book will help me out with. Still learning!!!
Awesome giveaway!!!
Fantastic prize!!! I’m dreaming of making a rainbow cake.
I really want a blue ombre layer cake!!
I want to make a monsters birthday cake
I would love to make a bold eye catching amazing cake by using some of WOBC techniques.
What a fun giveaway!!
I would love to make amazing wedding cakes!
I can’t choose just one!
Wow. What gorgeous images!!
I love the one with hearts
Fabulous!
I would love to make a gold and mint cake for my son’s first communion
Love your cakes!
awesome giveaway
I really want this
Brilliant giveaway…lovely blog 🙂
I have taken her Craftsy Class and loved it!! I would love to have the cookbook as well!!
Great giveaway, love it!
Great giveaway
Any cake! I need to learn to do better at decorating!
I dream of making an actual wedding cake one day, at least 4-5 tiers!
I would love to make the rainbow and hearts cake. Thanks for the giveaway. Good luck everyone.
I need this book!!! I have 4 children and am always looking for something different from everything being done. These are fantastic!
Love
I would love to be the winner of this book!! Been an admirer of her work. Will have to check her out on Craftsy, too!!
I want to develop the skills to match my imagination for beautiful wedding cakes.
I love to win , and can’t choose just one cake , all are fabulous and amazing Stay blessed 🙂
Love your designs!
Love your designs
I would love to make learn how to make the cake from her craftsy lessons.
Too hard to pick one!
Omg I love cake decorating. Thank you for sharing with all of us!
These are fabulous!
I would love to flawlessly decorate a square cake. I’m getting close on round cakes but I’m afraid to try fondant on a square cake.
My daughter is 4 months old and I want to make her a cute cake for her 1st birthday! I know it’s still a while before her birthday but I’m a planner!
Love the cakes!
They are all great!!
Just one cake? Oh man, I have so many in my head!
My dream making cake would be to make every time a Wow cake, for every person who trust me they birthday cakes for special occasion cake
I want to make the most beautiful wedding cake for my sister! I make cakes everyday, but I am so nervous about this one!
Lovely. I hope to create a cake similar.
I would love love to win your book.
First of all I love books and always open to learn more that I can.
It has been over 6 months that ive moved back to where I was born. And I miss a lot of new stuff and the cake decorating scene is moving fast. I would be happy as a kid to just win a prize.
I guess whoever wins this, would be so lucky!!! So best of luck to everyone.
Keep up the good work.
I love the heart cake rainbow.. So girly yet elegant looking..
You have such talent. I’d love to take a peek at that book and develope myself more!
Totally amazing designs…LOVE!!
I dream of making a John deer cake for my son’s first birthday.
I would love to make them all but my favorite I would love to make is the ocean theme cake !!
i really dream on have some classes and learn decorate cakes im staring and really need help..
So many to choose from, but I like elegant.
Would love to make the gold sequin, black and whit striped cake. It looks absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for this give away.
I need to try the rainbow cake!
cake is love..
hope to win! *crossfinger*
I would love to make those amazing flowers!!!
I would love to make a cake that is incredibly tall like a tower & completely airbrushed
Wow!! I love all the cake design especially the square cake, simple and stunning. As a new cake decorator, I would love, love, love to win the book. Erin’s cake designs always inspired me to decorate more cakes.
Thank you for this giveaway.
I love the colorful heart cake and the fridge alphabet one. I’d love to attempt either. They are both great, creative designs!
I am getting into all things fondant right now and Erin’s cakes are all fabulous. This would be amazing to win!
I am getting into all things fondant right now. I love all of Erin’s cakes and took her craftsy class too. This would be amazing to win!
I love the heart cake. Looks simple and stunning but I know it took a lot of work.
Love your designs. They are so clean
Beautiful cakes!! Thanks for an awesome giveaway.
Simply Beautiful 🙂
I’m the Queen of Hearts so definitely a heart cake!!
Great giveaway! Thanks for giving us the opportunity. There are soooo many techniques and designs I’d like to try. I’m digging the alphabet magnet cake. It’s super cute!!
OO fab, would love this book, fingers crossed designs look amazing …
What an awesome giveaway!
I would love to make an entirely different cake! With no flaws!
Thanks for the give away! Love Wild Orchid’s cakes!
I haven’t tried a topsy turvy yet.
I Dream of making breathtaking wedding cakes! Thanks for the contest 🙂
I love cake decorating, I want to try a fondant ruffle cake!
Her cakes are so gorgeous. Would love to have her book!
I would love to enhance my baking skills and hopefully one day teach baking as home economics in high schools.
I have seen her class on Craftsy, it is next on my list to buy, so I’m really excited to see what she has in her book. All of her cakes are so beautiful.
I need to make a beautiful, original princess cake for my daughter and I am pretty clueless as to how to pull it off
I would love to win these. Would help inspire me to be better
I want to learn how to decorate cakes!
Very talented persons!!!
I would love to learn how to make the one from her Craftsy class but really any of hers would make me just as happy!
I would love to do a topsy turvy cake
me encantaría saber si puedo conseguir el libro o revista de estas publicaciones y cuanto cuestan soy de México del estado de Veracruz y me interesa. felicidades todo esta estupendo, me encanta.
i’d love to try doing a shaped cake kinda like what you see on cake boss!
I dream of making an Art Deco cake!
I want to learn how to work with fondant and make stacked cakes.
I would love to be able to make something with fondant!
I would love to win one.
I am a hotel management student. I hav great interest in bakery and patisserie. Please guide me how to pursue my future career.
LOVE these cakes! So gorgeous! Planning on gifting this to my SIL cuz she is so much more talented at this than I am!
would love to add this beautiful book to my collection. Besides I LOVE making cakes – kind of love making new creations when I can & this would be a blast to have! Thanks
I want to do all
I want to make something like the rainbow heart cake
Wow you’re so amazing I would love to win to take my cake making to the next level
I would love to create a princess cake for my baby girl and a different Star Wars cake for my son. (Made him one last year and he loved it!)
I enjoy working with fondant but find it challenging to cover a cake neatly with it. I would love to have this book to help me master the art of fondant.
So great! And my daughter’s 1st birthday is next month!!
The cake I would love to make is a pink glitter basket weave on one tier and silver glitter dots on top tier
I would love to have this book, I think it would be a great source of inspiration and ideas for making beautiful cakes. I would love to try a 3D sculpted cake as I’ve never attempted it before
Please! Id love to win especially for the book! Its great 😀
Such a great-looking book! I would love to get my hands on one. 🙂
LOVE THE CAKES WOULD LOVE THE BOOK
Pretty please 🙂
It’s my birthday soon & winning would be the most special present xx
I would love to have this book! 🙂
me encantaria poder esos grandes trabajos espectaculares, amo la reposteria.
Love love the heart cake. Would love to make something like this. Stunning to look at with a matching hidden surprise x
need more decorating cake books, thank you
What an amazing giveaway! I’ve been wanting to explore cake decorating and this is PERFECT!
I am an amature cake decorator and desire to improve my skills with these awesome books!
I love the “fridge” cake with alphabet magnets!!
Would love to win for my sister!!!
This book looks amazing!!!! I would absolutely love to have a copy. Just might have to buy one if I don’t win!!
I would love to win this
I would absolutely love to win this!! Cake decorating has become a hobby of mine and this looks like it is packed with awesome ideas!!
Great stuff! Would love to win!!:)
So wonderful – far too fabulous to eat! Love the rainbow cake!
WOW!
The rainbow cake is inspiring… 🙂
I have 3 kids and I got tired to pay a lot of money for their birthday cakes so I’m trying to learn how to do it myself. I think this is an awesome opportunity to do it with the help of this amazing people. Really talented!!!
Totally need this right now, planning BD parties for 3 girls!!
My favorite design is the rainbow hearts!!! LOVE!!
Fabulous, Adorable, and Elegant Cakes. I love your ideas!!!
This is so awesome! I’m a mother of two and being able to make my boys beautiful cakes for birthdays would be a dream. I’m a lover of vanilla and I’m so inspired to make an elephant theme or nautical cake. Thank you xo
I haven’t worked much with fondant so this would be fun!
my son’s first birthday cake!
Love this! I’ve mostly made and decorated cupcakes in the past but have been wanting to start doing cakes.
Darling cakes! Hope I win 🙂
Wedding cakes
Romantic decoration cakes
I hope I win. Amazing!
OOH, my daughter would LOVE this book!
ultimately I would love to make my wedding cake and cupcakes. So scared I’ll mess it up though.
I would love to make the wave cake for my sons nautical themed second birthday!
thats really awesome! hope I win!
Love these super cute cakes! Makes me want to hop on over into my kitchen and whip up a cake!
These cakes are beautiful! I hope to one day, be able to create such works of art!
Love the heart cake. Thanks for the give away.
With 8 grandchildren, I am always in the lookout for new, fun cake designs! These are so amazing!! What an artist you are, Erin!!! I would love to be able to make the “abc” magnetic letter/number cake!!! Thanks so much!! 🙂
Pick me! 🙂
I love these cakes!
Beautiful cakes! Hope I get picked!
Would love this book! Ready to learn to use fondant and make a baby cake for our little mans arrival!
I love these ideas!!!!! I just made a Lalaloopsy cake for my daughter’s 7th birthday!
So much fun! Wonder how my teens would react to the fridge magnet cake – adorable!! Perhaps I’d better stick with the rainbow cake!
I’ll take the black and white striped cake, please! Matches my website 😉
love the letters one!
Love, love, love! <3
So pretty ! Love the one with the hearts !
Wishing I were as talented as you! Gorgeous!
my best friend is getting married in march, so it would be my dream to make her wedding cake!
I would love to make a beautiful wedding cake that looks like lace the way the icing is done. Thanks for the giveaway!
Yum! Inspiring designs.
Always looking for new and creative inspiration – looks like this book more than delivers. Would love to own a copy 🙂
My daughter is on mat leave and has taken up cake decoration as a “me” time activity. She would love this for her birthday.
I need something pink and girly. Everyone else at my house is a boy. Too much testosterone.
I would love to learn to create a fun and beautiful new birthday cake each year for my daughters.
I would love to make a sweet birthday cake for my kids!
I would love to make a beautiful chocolate cake with frosting and caramel and pretty swirls on top!
I would love to look at all the pictures in the book!
I am so into cake decor these days and these are super adorbs! 😉
Book looks great!
Wedding cake for my son & DILIT (daughter-in-law-in-training)!
I would love to make a tiered cake with glitter and leopard prints!
This book sounds like a great start…
YUMMIE & BEAUTIFUL!! Would love to win this book. Would sure come in handy with my parents 45th anniversary coming up…
Would love one.
Great ideas! Looking forward to going through this wonderful book 😛
~ With Love
Looks like an awesome book!
Lovely designs, simple but elegant!
All of them!! Looks like a book I would love!
My daughter had a birthday party this weekend, man do I wish I’d had this book!! I just winged it!!! Looks like an awesome book!!!!
I would make a carnival themed cake!
Oh my goodness! These are some of the prettiest cakes I’ve ever seen, seriously. I especially love the gold, with black and white stripes.
Love the rainbow layers and the letters remind me of the magnets in the Fisher Price school set I played with as a kid. Hope i win.
Check out my mum’s cakes, http://www.judyayrecakes.com. I’m so proud of her, she does some amazing cakes!
I love decorating for any type of occasions!
Such beautiful cakes!!
My 4 year old girl loves the rainbow cake. It just might be her cake for her 5th!
Thanks.
I’d like to make a flag cake for the 4th of July.
Love, love, love these designs. So cute!
Hello Kim!
I really enjoy your work!!
God bless you!
What a wonderful gift. Thank you for the opportunity 🙂
super cute, inspirational book I would love that since I make cakes for my kids and friends
I would love to learn how to make a nautical cake for my daughter’s baby shower!!
A sprinkle cake!
Love the alphabet one
These cakes are so pretty!
I would LOVE to make an ombre frill cake.
I would love to win!
I’m in love with the abc fondant cake!!
Stunning!
I never knew about this site…. I am sure glad I do now! Such a wealth of information!!!
I would love to recreate the alphabet cake.
I want to make the birthday birthday cake for my toddler – I love the alphabet idea. I am just learning the cake thing – I love making cupcakes 🙂
They are all adorable, but my grandkids would enjoy the alphabet cake.
I’ve been dreaming of a decadent multi layer chocolate cake…yum! Maybe some fluffy white chocolate frosting to go on top 🙂
This is breathtaking. Such a wonderful experience to look at the pictures.
That book looks so awesome! I would love to have a copy.
I love erins work. Her craftsy class is on my wishlist
Love it :)!!!!
I love your designs, and this book would be a great help to me! I struggle with fondant, so making any of these would be a dream 🙂
I absolutely love this book and if I win, I’m giving it to my friend who is making my wedding cake next year!!
I love the simplicity to the look of these cakes. I’m sure it takes a lot of work to make them look so beautiful.
Love the two tier black & white striped cake with the peony on top……breathtakingly beautiful & sophisticated ….LUV LUV LUV !
I thought this disappeared …I commented twice …just spectacular !
Oops Forgot to say which one I’d love to make. I would love to make the hearts with rainbow filled cake or the alphabet one. I love the contrast of the white with all of the colors. Fun!
The kind of cake I dream of making is sonething that incorporates peacock feathers and lots of blues and purples.
Love the two tier black and white striped cake with the peony on top…breathtakingly beautiful & sophisticated ! All of your cakes are so clever and perfect looking ….!
A beautiful vintage girly cake for my little princess
I would love to make a striped rainbow cake or a surprise inside cake
I so want this book! It really has all of my style of cakes!
Hello! I love cake decorating and I love the book! Wonderful giveaway, thanks!
I would like to make the rainbow one
Erin makes amazing cakes! Would love to have her book!
I love making cakes for family events. This gives me some great ideas.
Love it!
I’d make them all I love the designs!
I would love to win the great cake decorating contest. I have a dream of decorating cakes for a living once I graduate school. I’ve already decorated plenty of cakes, but would love to know more ! it would be fantastic to win the great cake decorating book, and it would surely help out a ton with my dream career.
Ooo I would love to win Erin’s new book. I’m a student in her craftsy class already but I’d love to make the alphabet cake show here. It’s an utterly genius design. Thank you for the opportunity. Xxx
I love all your happy, fun ideas!
I love these simple yet effective designs!
looking forward to learning the sequin technique!
Wow, the book looks amazing. Beautiful cakes 🙂 x
I am dreaming of making a cake with edible cake lace and beautiful gum paste flowers.
The perfect Opera cake!
I would loved to make a beach cake
I love the look on the gold tier cake.. it is astounding!
wow, would love to win this, but good luck to everyone.
I hope I get lucky tonight !!!
Awesome!
Love the heart cake
Omg I love this!! Book looks amazing!
Love the rainbow heart cake
Love the look of this cookbook…I would love to make an ancient egyptian inspired cake 🙂
Love the rainbow cake!
love these! so cute and fun!
These are fabulous! I would love the make something like the magnetic letters cake. I love the clean & simple, but fun look!
A cake covered in roses!
These are such fun and cakes! Too beautiful to eat.
I wanna win ..plzzzzz
I would love to create cake like these. Simply breathtaking!
Love it!
would like to win!!!!!!
I would like to create something whimsical.
What a fun blog!! I think my dream cake to make would be like a Willy Wonka or Candyland type theme. Where anything goes and the colors can be amazing and you would have free reign to use every decorating technique you’ve ever learned or been wanting to try! 🙂
The heart cake rocks!!
I would loooove to win… And use it to inspire my wedding cake!
Love it!
i love all bout ur cake decoration…i would love to decorate something beautiful and amazing like yours <3<3<3
Would love to make something so beautiful and colourful
Awesome cakes!