Centerpieces – Yeners Way

Fountain Fairytale Wedding Cake Story

Yeners Way — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 12:29:47 +0000

Join me on another wedding cake adventure as I make a fairytale themed wedding cake for a couple on the Gold Coast, Australia.

Up Wedding Cake Story

Yeners Way — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 12:00:06 +0000

Join me on cake journey as I create an Up themed wedding cake for my wife’s niece Joelle. This cake was created partially in Australia and then completed in Singapore as we attended the wedding ceremony. Hope you enjoy the video!

Trishaw Centrepiece

Yeners Way — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:41:30 +0000

Join me in this cake tutorial as I explore the incredible versatility of pastillage, a medium that I have mastered over time. Pastillage may seem intimidating, but I’m here to show you that it’s not as difficult as it looks. I’ve been invited to participate in a collaboration by Raquel Garcia, focusing on all things Thailand. I see this as the perfect opportunity to put pastillage to the test in an extreme way.

For this tutorial, I’ve chosen an iconic symbol that reminds us of the Far East, particularly Thailand – the trishaw. What makes this challenge even more exciting is that I’ve decided to create this centerpiece without using any internal construction. That means absolutely no wires or skewers! Just like the delicate spokes of a bicycle wheel, we’ll explore how to support these fragile sugar wheels to bear the weight.

So, if you’ve ever wondered how to work with pastillage, how to craft intricate and gravity-defying structures, or simply love the art of cake decorating, join me as we start from the planning stage and dive into this incredible cake project.

Indian Snake Charmer Centerpiece

Yeners Way — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:17:55 +0000

In this tutorial, Serdar teaches you how to use Pastillage to make an Indian snake charmer charming a snake in a basket.

Making sugar figurines is a very important part of a cake decorating business. This Indian Snake Charmer Centerpiece was made for the Incredible India Collaboration hosted by my good friend Tina Scott Parachar. It is about 25cm tall and created using Pastillage for reasons that you will see in the tutorial. When making this kind of centerpiece, we need to make hundreds of decisions along the way and each decision is selected from multiple other possibilities. The final outcome will always depend on these choices. Join me in this tutorial so that I can hopefully help you make better decisions with your own cake decorating processes.

Samurai Warrior Centrepiece

Yeners Way — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 01:23:47 +0000

In this tutorial, I am going to make a Samurai Warrior sculpture as a centrepiece out of my favourite sugar paste, pastillage. It will have an internal skeleton support. This tutorial contains loads of different techniques that will help you create a pastillage centrepiece of your own.

What you’ll learn…

Copper pipe soldering for construction
Referring to a skeleton to build construction
Clothing on body to achieve realistic creases
Making a sword held strongly by the hand
Traditional Samurai clothing

Yeners Pastillage is available at YenersPastillage.com

Genie in a Lamp Centrepiece

Yeners Way — Wed, 22 May 2019 03:45:54 +0000

I regularly receive invitations to participate in cake collaborations and I only accept those that would be beneficial for you to witness and those that I can make tutorials for. I also try to choose ideas that contain a variety of methods that can be used for other cakes. Today’s subject is for The Arabian Nights Cake Collaboration and I decided to make a classic genie in a lamp. Although it’s a very common idea, I think it has a lot of learning points for you to witness.

What you’ll learn…

Gravity defying construction
Making the lamp
Special filler
Making the smoke
Muscle work
Face sculpting
Metallic armor
Isomalt jewels
Floating long ponytale
New paste (mixture of chocolate modelling paste & Gumpaste)

DISCLAIMER: There is no cake involved in this tutorial which is why this piece is considered a centrepiece.

Taj Mahal Cake

Yeners Way — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:55:00 +0000

Making replicas of the well-known buildings and landmarks from around the world can often be part of our cake decorating business. I’ve received many requests from people to make a tutorial of the Taj Mahal and the opportunity has finally come. This Taj Mahal Cake was made for Tina Scott Parashar’s second Incredible India cake collaboration. I am very honoured and humbled to be amongst many other cake artists who I admire and follow with great respect. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and learn something valuable from it.

What you’ll learn…

Self-made rubber stamping techniques
Light marbling
Blade marking for brick work
Marker pen drawing for ornamental work
Pin point template cutting
Fork marking
Using pastillage moulds
Using a plan for accurate measurements

DISCLAIMER: The majority of this tutorial covers how to make a Taj Mahal centerpiece from pastillage. Although there is no actual cake involved in this tutorial, Serdar explains how it can be incorporated with a cake.

SUGAR SURF BOARD Tutorial

Yeners Way — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:34:48 +0000

In this weeks tip, I will show how to make a sugar palm tree. This is a continuation of last weeks beach texture tutorial and will be a nice addition to any beach or tropical themed cake.

SUGAR PALM TREE Tutorial

EASY BEACH TEXTURE Tutorial

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How to Make a SUGAR AIRPLANE

Yeners Way — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:42:35 +0000

There are some decorations that we don’t do often but once they are needed, it is important to know what to do. This week’s tip will be an object like that. A sugar airplane. A sugar airplane can be used for just about any travel related theme, like a holiday, farewell, welcoming, a birthday cake for a pilot, or for my particular reason, an airport cake.

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Monument Cake

Yeners Way — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:27:47 +0000

Beside wedding cakes and birthday cakes, there are many other reasons or occasions that we may make cakes for. One of them is to celebrate someone’s great success in the past. I have a request to design a cake to feature a woman who has made a change in the world. For this collaboration I chose the mother of the great Turkish leader Ataturk who liberated Turkey right after the end of the First World War. This great mother who brought up that great man is Zubeyde Hanim. This cake is a tribute to them both.

This tutorial will cover the following topics…

How to make a monument inpired cake
The white cut out method
Grouting technique
Making a sugar chain with 2 different shape rings in one
Making practical column heads
Making mini lilies
Light box effect