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Gumpaste Alstroemeria Lily with Full Blown Roses

As you know my daughter and best friend, Sydney turned twenty-one last week. It was a fun week filled with twenty-one lavender macarons, sushi from our favorite restaurant, and she had...

How to - Christmas (Jingle) bell

How to make a little bell topper for your christmas cupcake. Colors used are yellow and a little bit of brown. In pic 11 I’ve used a piece of spaghetti to support the loop for the bell....

Poinsettia Cake, A Peek into our Holiday Traditions

Poinsettia Gumpaste Plant: Equipment: 26 gauge white wire 26 gauge green wire Fine needle nose pliers Embroidery scissors Wire cutters Fine groved needle nose pilers Green floral tape...

Gumpaste or Fondant Ruffle Flower #1: Ruffle flower part 1

My cakey friends, here’s a video tutorial on how I made the big ruffle flower on the above cake. Just a heads up, I used 50/50 gum paste and fondant mixture on all the ruffle flowers shown in...

Video Tutorial on How to make a Blush Pink Rose from modeling chocolate FREE HAND

I have been obsessed recently with modeling chocolate and all the beautiful things you can create with it. I was just playing around with my white and red modeling chocolate when I...

Smooth Buttercream Tutorial with Recipe

This is the most popular post on my blog, and the most viewed video on my YouTube channel, because it’s something we all have struggled with. In this video tutorial, I will show you my method for...

Tiered birthday cakes #1: Diving and Plane themed cake w/ shark.

I frosted an 8 & 10-inch round 2-layer cakes in blue buttercream icing. I made diver, treasure chest, and shark out of fondant, and allowed to dry for several days. I...

Anchor, and nautical, sea related cakes #1: Anchor design w/ stripes

2-layer round cake frosted and smoothed buttercream icing. Anchor design was free handed w/ a tooth pick, but you can use a cut out pattern to use. Outlined anchor in pink #4,...

Fabric flower Tutorial

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Professional Cake Pan Release

Make your homemade Pan Release. Ingredients: 1/4 cup vegetable oil ( I use Canola oil) 1/4 cup vegetable shortening, room temperature 1/4 cup all-purpose flour Directions: ...

Buttercream birthday cakes #1: Tractor farm cake in 100% buttercream

100% Buttercream~ I frosted entire cake in white BC. Then I took one or two different shades of green and put small amounts here and there on bottom 1/2 of cake and smoothed....

Two color Ruffle Tutorial

I love Ruffles but sometimes they are difficult to make and time consuming. In this tutorial I came up with two color easy ruffles. You can even use more...