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Sugar Paste Full Blown Rose Spray!

Sydney has been asking me if we could create a sugarpaste full blown rose spray for a cake for sometime now. I figured with Roses being June’s...

How to use chalks~

This is what I use.. Not sure what others use, but this is just me. Water bottle spray-keep my hands clean for next colour Pallet Knife- to scrape the chalk Little containers with lids- to...

Buttercream floral designs #1: Pastel 100% BC floral design w/ filling

2-layer 8-in. round butternut cake w/ buttercream icing, and all buttercream flowers. Pastel roses in 2-tone pink, lavender, yellow, and sage green leaves and ivy~ Grass...

Scary cakes & Halloween!!! #1: Walking Dead in buttercream!

I frosted a 1/4 sheet red velvet w/ buttercream and smoothed w/ very warm water w/ knife dipped in and shake off excess. * (tip) I also pre-spray lightly water before...

Take Your Sugar Roses to the Ultimate Level with Wired Petals

Well, we finally are ready to take our gumpaste roses to fully open from open rose (the fourth stage). In the spray above I have one bud, 2 partially open roses, 4 open roses, and 3 fully...

Airbrushed Cornucopia Sugar Cookies Tutorial

I wanted to create cornucopia sugar cookies for edible place cards on our Thanksgiving table; only I found I did not own a cornucopia cookie cutter. I wasn’t going to let that stop me I went...

Fondant Tutorials #1: Using Tappits v.2 a picture tutorial

Equipment Silicone Rolling Pin Scriber Tool Icing Sugar Tappits Treated fondant (I use tylo powder) Palette knife / pizza cutter Roll out the treated fondant to 1-2 mm...

Candle Lights Learn Scroll Piping

I have been wanting to create a tutorial on the art of scroll piping with royal icing. It is easier to learn on a sugar cookie prior to an entire cake, piping an entire cake can take hours...

Whimsical Christmas Tree Cupcakes

I can remember watching Dr.Seuss’ “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” every December since I was little. The 1957 book was adapted into a short film during the 1960′s. It alway mesmerized me,...

Buttercream floral designs #3: Vibrancy in Buttercream roses! Wedding cake~

Frost a 10 & 6 inch 2-layer cakes in buttercream. Use #104 tip to make icing roses (of which you can find online tutorials for). I made red and deep purple per request...

Buttercream floral designs #4: Forget-me-nots in beautiful tones

Frost 1/4 sheet red velvet in buttercream. I pipe a little buttercream in opposite corners to raise bouquet a little. I then make vine design, where I will place flowers,...