Coffee Squared Cupcakes

Cupcake Ingredients: (Makes appx 24) 3/4 cup strong hot coffee 3 tsp instant espresso powder 3/4 cup dark cocoa 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 2 cups brown sugar 3 large...

How to make marshmallow fondant (mmf)

Ingredients: 1 – 16oz bag mini marshmallows 1 – 2lb bag powdered sugar (sifted – I usually use about 3/4 to 2/3 of the bag) 2 to 3TBS water shortening gel paste food coloring (if...

Tangled cake tutorial

Hi everyone! This is my first real tutorial and there are some missing photos so bare with me. I hope I have explained this clearly enough and that it’s not a terrible bore. :) Here we go: ...

Strawberry Mascarpone Filling

This is a softly sweet filling made from mascarpone which is an Italian cheese made of cream and a citric acid base. Because of that, it enhances sweet flavors and pairs well with fresh fruit....

How to make a two-toned cake with buttercream

Ok, so this two-toned technique has many applications, but I used it to create a landscape on the side of my cub scout cake. It worked so well, I can’t wait to find a good reason to use it again!...

Moist & Durable Cake for 3-D and Carved Cakes

This cake can be made in many flavor combinations, but I used vanilla as the example. Chocolate cake/pudding can be used as well as White cake/coconut or banana pudding, Vanilla cake/white...

Just simply 'hello'...................

I’ve been wanting to blog for a while. Cakes are my passion or my ‘cake porn’ as the other half would say. I’m working on some cakes I’ve done before this week. One for an engagement, the other...

20 000 Cakes? When? Take a guess and win!

I posted an announcement of the Cake Decorator of the Week yesterday and ConceptualConfection added a comment that inspired me to do a competition. Rules: Post a comment to this thread with...

Cupcake Bouquet Step-by-step

As this is a question I get asked quite a bit, I decided to photo my latest cupcake bouquet every step of the way to show exactly how it’s done. It’s fairly easy to do and by using different...

New CakesDecor Features #2: Cake Decorator of the Week

10 000 cakes! Are you kidding?? If you told me 5 months ago, when we were launching this website, that there will be 10 000 cakes posted in March I would think you are insane. And now…here it is!...

"Lots of questions"

I need some ideas on how to make a pirite ship cake for my Grandsons 10th BD party. Is it easier to use fondent or gumpaste to make fiagures?

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