 Fondant grass using a sieveI just posted this on facebook today and thought I’d share with all of you here. It was a trick I learned in College and still use today. It’s my first tutorial and quite simple; but, it is useful if you’ve just run out of royal icing or buttercream, lost that grass tip, want your grass a bit finer than from a garlic press or don’t yet have an extruder. Hopefully it will be helpful to a few of you. Thanks for looking. :) You only need 5 tools:■a mesh sieve■a thi...  3D Cakes #2: Making Simon's Mountaineering BootsThese have been my most popular cake and CakesDecor very kindly selected them as Editor’s Choice last year. I have been promising for ages to put together a guide to making these for those of you who have said ‘I can’t do that’. I hope you will be able to see that, yes you can. All you need is a cake, a pair of real boots as ‘models’ on a stool. Paper. Ruler and cake decorating edibles 1. Cut out the shape of a shoe sole. I did this by placing my ...  Christmas placehouse :)Hi everybody!! I made this tutorial a few days ago thinking about what I could put on my Christmas table for my guests and this is the result… sorry if I couldn’t write the text ( I had to translate from Italian :P ) but I think these are very busy weeks for all of us I hope you can do it!!! Merry Christmas to all ♫ ♪ ♫ Karla ps…. Snow effect it’s made with icing sugar   Tangled Rapunzel Tower cake tutorialThis tutorial covers setting up the support structure and decoration of a “Tangled” Rapunzel Tower Cake as can be seen on https://www.facebook.com/CustomCakeDesigns .... This support structure was made for a cake that needed to cater for 70 desert size portions of cake. As it was a rather large cake, a strong ‘tower’ was needed to support the weight and hence plumbers plastic tubing / piping was selected as the main core of the tower. (This plastic tubing and ca...  How to make modeling chocolateMODELING CHOCOLATE. That’s what has been consuming me lately. I’ve always been fascinated by it ever since I started decorating cakes for a hobby but I’ve never been brave enough to want to try making it myself until I saw Choccywoccydoodah creations on Cake Masters page. Several failed attempt later using 4 recipes I found online calling to use GOOD quality chocolate and the Bain-Marie technique, desperation consuming my will, I went through my cupboard and found sev...  Caymancake's Basic Vanilla Cupcake (with variations) RecipeCaymancake’s Basic Cupcake Recipe 2 C self rising flour1 C milk3 large eggs2 C granulated (white) sugar1 C butter2 tsp vanilla 1. Cream butter and sugar together.2. Beat in eggs, one at a time.3. Beat in vanilla.4. Alternatively add flour and milk, starting and ending with the flour.5. Bake at 350 degrees – start checking after 15 minutes. When it bounces back to the touch, they are ready! Variations: Honey Lavender – swap out 1/4-1/2 of the sugar with honey (de...  Half-Covered StripesJust a quick note (hopefully) with a few hints on how to create a seamless join when you want to have more than one colour of fondant covering your cake, with no overlaps. 1. Start by calculating the size fondant you need to cover the top half of the cake (in my case, the blue). I wanted the blue to come halfway down the sides of the cake so my fondant needed to be 7” (the top of the cake) + 2.25” (the cake was 4.5” high) x 2 (for each side) = 11.5” diameter. ... Easter Bunnies Cake Topper TutorialAnother cute tutorial for Easter TimeText in english on my page in facebook: www.facebook.co,/sweetk.cakedesign Happy Easter!! :)   
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