Interview #24: Karla Chumpitaz of Sweet K

Short Bio My name is Karla Chumpitaz, I’m 30 years old. I’m from Peru but I live Brescia (Italy) since 2008 and Sweet K is my business at the moment I studied pastry in my country and after...

CakesDecor Gazette: Issue 3.05 / May 2014

Editorial Hello my Lovelies, It’s been another hectic month for me capped off with a fabulous trip to South Australia last weekend to help open the new Bake Boss store in Adelaide! CC and I...

CakesDecor Awards: Floral Cakes #3: And the Winners Are ...

Floral Cakes Awards are behind us and It was difficult to pick the best 5 entries again. This time you submitted 196 beautiful cakes – thank you! Here are the winning cakes: Winner $200...

CakesDecor LOVE

I just wanted to take the time out to say that I love coming on CakesDecor to look at the latest cakes and the awesome talent on here! I could click through images on here all day! LOVE IT!

CakesDecor Gazette: Issue 3.04 / April 2014

Editorial Hello my Lovelies, I LOVE a good reaction to my work….in fact, I think I can admit to being a big reaction junkie! There’s nothing like seeing joy on someone’s face and knowing that...

Easter bunny... the artist (Tutorial)

Here’s an easy to make cute bunny, hope you like it :-)xxx https://www.facebook.com/SweetJanis.page 1 Cover a styrofoam ball with white sugar paste;2 give it the shape of a drop for the body of...

Quick Tip - Octagon Cutouts using Square Cutter

Here is a quick tip sheet I created for making octagon cutouts using a basic square cutter as seen on the bottom tier of the cake I made recently for my sis’ birthday. I’m sure others have...

Simple Rainbow Petunia

I used modelling paste for these flowers. Mix 250g sugarpaste with 1 tsp either gum tragacanth, cmc poder or Tylo powder. Colours used: Wilton rose Sugarflair apricot/tangerine mixed...

Decadent Flourless Chocolate Cake

Decadent Flourless Chocolate Cake 500g of the best dark chocolate you can buy (1 lb approx) 4 eggs, cold 1 stick butter, cut (about 100 grams) Optional: If you prefer your cake to...

pineapple upside down cake

This recipe was given to me by a friend, I love it because really easy to make and absolutely delicious !!! and I like to add some pineapple juice to the sponge to make it more light and fluffy....

Peony Flower from $2 homemade cutters...who said you need expensive equipment ;-)

Wanted to do a Peony without having to purchase expensive cutter, if you have a peony set you can use them for this but the larger cutter makes for a bigger Peony so you may want to use your...