Prop Options Blog - News and Features
Cake International Display Ideas: The Trends, Shapes and Finishes We’re Taking Into 2027
Cake International display ideas for 2027, from hand-piped royal icing to visible support, living flowers at the base, dark gilded tiers and floating tiers, with the structural checks each one needs.
Single-Tier Wedding Cakes: How to Make a Smaller Cake Feel Like a Showstopper
A single tier wedding cake can carry a whole reception when the cake centrepiece is designed around it. Here is how height, proportion and support do the work that extra tiers usually do.
Winter Wedding Cake Inspiration: Centrepiece Ideas for the Coldest Months
Winter wedding cake inspiration for the coldest months: the colours, textures and cake centrepiece structures that suit candlelit, heated winter venues, and what decorators should check first.
Black Wedding Cakes and Halloween Displays That Still Feel Luxury
Black wedding cakes and Halloween cake displays look expensive when surface, contrast and the stand beneath the tiers are planned together. A design guide for couples and decorators.
How to Install Your Procreate Cake Stamps on iPad and iPhone
A step-by-step guide to installing your Cake Design by Savanna Procreate cake stamps on iPad or iPhone, whether your set arrives as a .brushset file or a .zip, plus how to place your first stamp.
Two Tone Wedding Cakes: A Design Method for Building Statement Centrepieces
Two tone wedding cakes succeed or fail on where the colour changes. A practical design method covering the split line, structural separators, blended washes, texture and the display beneath the cake centrepiece.
Geometric Wedding Cakes: Clean Lines, Sharp Styling and Contemporary Cake Displays
Geometric wedding cakes now carry their clean lines through the structure of the centrepiece. How pentagon and diamond separators, geometric cake stands and square plinths shape a contemporary cake display.
PropStar Insights: How Featured Cake Designers Are Styling Autumn Wedding Centrepieces
How our October '26 PropStar, Pretty Petal Cake Co, built an autumn wedding cake centrepiece around colour, pattern and structure, and what decorators should settle before styling warm-toned designs.
Getting a bespoke build through procurement, venue and brand approval
What procurement, the venue and the brand team each need before a bespoke build can be approved, and the sequence that saves two to three weeks.
Acrylic, timber, metal or composite: choosing the right material for display
Material choice is a load, handling and lifespan decision, not an aesthetic one. How the four main families actually behave, and the four questions that decide it.
How to specify a bespoke afternoon tea stand for a hotel
Menu first, then carrying, then cleaning, then storage, and only then design. The decisions that make a signature tea stand work in service.
What bespoke fabrication costs, and what drives the price
Nobody in this industry publishes prices. Here is the honest version of what actually drives the cost of a bespoke build, in rough order of impact.
