Both piping styles. One bundle.
The historical Lambeth Series in royal icing, and the softer modern Buttercream Vintage version. Two piping languages, the same intricate borders, scrolls, drop strings, and lattice work, taught in both mediums, with the small but critical technique differences between the two called out as you go. The complete piping vocabulary for any wedding cake.
lambeth – royal icing
buttercream – vintage modern
drop string detail
Two mediums, same vocabulary.
Vintage piping is making a comeback in wedding cakes. Lambeth is the traditional style, using royal icing to create detailed borders, swags, and piping. Today, many cake artists are creating the same vintage look with buttercream for a softer finish. Cake artists who can work with both styles are in high demand.
The Lambeth Piping Series
Buttercream Vintage Piping
Buying separately vs the bundle.
Lambeth first. Buttercream second.
No rule, but the recommended order: master the precise royal-icing version first, then translate the same patterns to the softer buttercream medium. The vocabulary transfers cleanly when you learn it on the more demanding tip.
Start with The Lambeth Piping Series
The classical, precise, royal-icing technique. Ten foundational patterns taught individually, with the troubleshooting for when a line breaks or a drop string sags. Once your hands can pipe these cleanly in royal icing, buttercream feels easy.
Then Buttercream Vintage Piping
Similar patterns, softer medium. The buttercream consistency that holds a clean line, the slight edits in design to make piping easier, the timing adjustments, and the ombre tinting technique that turns one cake into a Style Me Pretty editorial. By the end, you’ve got both piping languages.
Three reasons it's the smarter buy.
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The patterns transfer
Pearls work the same way in both mediums, the pressure is what changes. Overpiping translates across both, but the technique shifts. Colouring is more common in buttercream, though it can be done carefully with royal icing too. Learning side-by-side compresses what would take a year of trial-and-error into one bundle.
Yours to keep, forever.
- ✦The Lambeth Piping Series · 15 lessons · ~3.5 hours
- ✦Buttercream Vintage Piping · 12 lessons · ~2.5 hours
- ✦All 10 Lambeth patterns plus 8 buttercream variations
- ✦Two project cakes (one per course)
- ✦Royal icing and piping-consistency buttercream recipes
- ✦Piping Practice Guide PDF with visual reference for all patterns
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- ✦30-day money-back guarantee