 On A Mission #2: Baylee's Cookieshttps://www.facebook.com/PrayersForBaylee There’s a link above for beautiful Baylee. I hope people are inspired to stop by and pray for this precious little girl. I haven’t met her but that doesn’t matter. She’s important and precious, beautiful and worth every effort we can all give to pray or act on her behalf. This week I didn’t have a cutter for the design she’d like… so I downloaded a few pictures of Hello Kitty and chose a few. I drew ... On A Mission #1: Prayers for BayleeThis “Series” of blogs has to do with giving. Giving to others seems to be a “thing” for me :) I decided when I started baking that it couldn’t always be about money. Money tends to take the fun out of things anyway. We worry about prices and what we should charge and how much our “time” is worth and on and on. Pretty soon I feel indignant about those who don’t want to pay and discover that gem that rises up in me. I always come back to &#...  Bodice TutorialI have had some interest in “how to” on this cake, so here is a tutorial to help along the way. Carved and ganache chocolate cake (apologies I do not have photos of the smoothing process) I then covered it with flesh coloured fondant. Then I covered with blue fondant that I previously had cut a pattern and did the same for the burgundy coloured fondant too. To save time, I used a floral patchwork cutter to indent a pattern so I have an outline to follow fo...  Base Ball Cap CakeThis is my husband’s Birthday cake. Yes, he is a big fan of the New York Yankees. As always I took progress pictures for my blog and then decided that it would be best to make a video…So here’s the video. Here’s the cut cake. ThanksVeena’s Art of CakesUnforgettable cakes for memorable occsionsEnglish Website- http://www.veenaartofcakes.com/Hebrew Website – http://www.wix.com/veenaartofcakes/veenaartofcakesFood Blog – http://veenaartofcakes.b...  New Era Cap Cake Tutorial1. Start with a Cake that has been baked in a ball tin or in this cake a 2 litre pyrex bowl. 2. Layer, fill and coat the cake with buttercream as normal. 3. Roll out red sugarpaste. 4, over the cake with the sugarpaste and smooth starting from the top and working your way down a little at a time. 5. Trim away the excess sugarpaste. 6. I then covered my cake board in sugarpaste and added some grains etc to make it look like wood and then painted with brown paste ... Vintage Chinese Fan by Sweet Blossom Cakes1.Here is a picture with all the materials needed. 2. Roll out your pink fondant on a non stick surface. 3. Cut out a large fluted round with a fluted round cutter. 4. Now cut out atleast 1/3 of the round leaving a fan shape. 5. Now indent the fan with a smaller plain edge round cutter. 6. Now using a knife or craft knife, indent lines with equal gaps like show in the picture. 7. Now using the “smiley tool” create indents like in the pic. ...  New beginnings #4: RKT omg fab :-)Well what a productive day :-) I’ve managed to get my 4 tier baked 2 vanilla Madeiras a 2 chocolate Madeiras and they all turned out fab. The best was yet to come. For the cake idea I have in mind I needed a light weight cake as a topper but the while surfing Facebook a fab site Shereen’s cakes & bakes put a post up about having used something called RKT for modelling some large penguins on a cake. Not having a clue what this was I started googling and found out it was butter ... New beginnings #2: SugarveilI had started gathering all my cake essentials and came across a brilliant web site www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk and OMG I must be a rated customer now :-) its like toysrus for cake lovers. The product I took to straight away was the sugarveil it just looked fab and how right I was. While I eagerly waited for it to arrive I research the Internet for how to do it, what goes wrong which was good as the first time I used it, it turned out perfect. I now make sugarveil everyday. The start u... New beginnings #1: New beginningsHi and if your reading this or looking at my cakes you will realise I’m not a pro and just starting out. So far I’m loving baking and creating cakes. The only problem I’m having at the moment is too many ideas lol I just want to make everything. I get an idea in my head of how I want it to look then put pencil to is per to design it and figure out what to use. So far it’s been hard everything doesn’t pan out smoothly but I see it as learning as I go along. I have...  How to make Camouflage CupcakesIs someone having a camo party and want to make their party complete with a camo cake or cupcakes well here is the perfect tutorial to show you how. http://thecraftymamablog.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/camouflage-cupcakes-tutorial/ I started out with 2 box mixes, one chocolate, one white. Divide the batter into 4 bowls. 1: White batter. 2: White batter with green food coloring and a dash of chocolate batter. 3: Equal parts chocolate and white batter. 4: Chocolate batter. ...  
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