Pillars, walls, domes and brickwork - build sugar architecture from a simple topper to the Taj Mahal.
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Architecture in sugar is all about planning before you build. Across these ten tutorials you’ll learn to work from plans and templates, roll and dry pastillage panels that stay dead straight, cut windows and doorways cleanly, texture sand, stone and brickwork, pipe fine structural detail, and assemble tall pieces that stand straight and stay standing.
You’ll begin with quick, confidence-building work — easy Roman pillars, then a sand castle topper with wrap-around walls, and a fairytale castle with towers and spires. From there you’ll take on a full Halloween castle cake complete with rocks, sea and internal construction, a lattice-walled gazebo, a 3D building cake with facade and landscaping, and a finely piped Eiffel Tower. The final stretch is showpiece territory: an ornate gates cake with brickwork and working hinges, a monument rich in arches, pillars and airbrushed panels, and the Taj Mahal, where domes, minarets and repeating ornamentation all come together.
This pathway suits decorators who are comfortable coating a cake and ready to plan and construct rather than simply decorate. By the end you’ll be able to look at almost any building, break it down into panels, pillars, arches and domes, and rebuild it in sugar at the right scale.
