by bobbienoto | Aug 28, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Spray, Tutorials
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 finally decided on a cake and topper. It was wonderful creating together again, and...
by bobbienoto | Aug 14, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cupcakes, Home, Tutorials
DF has been going through pound cake withdrawal, as you know from reading past posts DF, my husband, LOVES my pound cake flavor combinations. He was used to having a different flavored pound cake every other week (he would have a piece for breakfast each morning),...
by bobbienoto | Aug 7, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Tutorials
Fondant fabric techniques have become brilliantly popular in the past few years and ruching is no exception. Ruching is a French term which means to gather, ruffle, or pleat; the term is a sewing technique in which fabric or ribbon is gathered in a repeating pattern...
by bobbienoto | Jul 31, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Spray, Tutorials
For quite sometime I have been waiting to create a bamboo framed sugar cookie with Spathoglottis orchids, better known as Asian Ground Orchids. I had promised Sydney I would wait for her to come home in order for us to design the sugar cookie frames together. She has...
by bobbienoto | Jul 24, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Gluten Free, Home, Spray, Tutorials
I mentioned in the last post Sydney saw Alan Dunn’s Mariposa Lily cake and liked the look; so I created my version of this peaceful spray to adorn the top of a fabric billow weave cake. Mariposa (or “butterfly”) in Spanish are peaceful beautifully...
by bobbienoto | Jul 17, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Spray, Tutorials
With Sydney’s 21 birthday a little more than one month away, I am still trying to create the perfect spray for her cake. Sydney saw a similar spray in Alan Dunn’s Creative Cakes when she was home for spring break. Sydney loves orchids; there are five...
by bobbienoto | Jul 10, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Tutorials
While preparing fondant covered sugar cookies to send to Sydney I realized there are several mediums, in cake decorating, for creating decorative roses. From easy and fast rosettes, piped royal icing roses, gumpaste fabric roses, to full blown sugar paste roses. All...
by bobbienoto | Jul 3, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Tutorials
Sydney has an amazing red dress, every time she wears the dress heads turn to look. Sydney had planned to wear the dress to her dad’s and mine 22nd anniversary. Due to her class schedule and her volunteer work she was unable to join DF and I. She was feeling a...
by bobbienoto | Jun 26, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Gluten Free, Home, Tutorials
Sydney flew home this paste weekend to help teach a platform shoe class on Friday and demo how to create a sugar paste/ fondant shoe. We hadn’t had the opportunity to work together since spring break; it was wonderful to create the shoes with her. I had already...
by bobbienoto | Jun 19, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Home, Tutorials
Exciting and eloquent fashions from Stephane Rolland’s Spring/Summer Haute Couture Collection during Paris Fashion Spring Week, 2013-14. The collection is immediately recognizable as Stephane Rolland designs. The angular shapes, strong emphasis on curves, and floral...
by bobbienoto | Jun 13, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Spray, Tutorials
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 flower now would be perfect. I based the roses for this cake after the Glowing Peace Rose, named after its grandparent...
by bobbienoto | Jun 5, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Spray, Tutorials
About two weeks past, I posted a tutorial on how to create an open sugar paste Peony, since then I have had serval requests asking how to create the Tuberose in the peony spray. I chose Tuberoses for their dainty appearance, and the Tuberose is a flower that is both...
by bobbienoto | May 30, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cupcakes, Home, Spray, Tutorials
Pansies are vibrant, breathe taking, fragrant, an edible bloom and the flower most people take for granite. The pansy is linked forever to the viola, its ancestor, violas includes both pansies and violets, violets most loved for their perkiness and the their pretty...
by bobbienoto | May 22, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Home, Products, Spray, Tutorials
While Sydney was home this past weekend, for a VERY short time, we visited the Botanical gardens. As we walked around the flowers and greenery I saw a Flamboyant Mayflower and became mesmerized by it’s beauty! The Flamboyant Mayflower is known for its...
by bobbienoto | May 1, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Home, Products, Tutorials
I posted a few days ago Sydney will be turning 21, and I am creating a few different cakes for her to choose from for her party. This is the first cake for her to view. This cake is a billow weave, Susan Trianos has a wonderful video explaining how she creates a...
by bobbienoto | Apr 27, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Products, Spray, Tutorials
I love a full open rose sitting on top of a cake. It is a simple touch of elegance. I had planned on designing a few cakes for Sydney to choose from for 21st birthday party. The first element I need is for her to choose from is the type of topper; she is leaning...
by bobbienoto | Apr 24, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cupcakes, Products, Tutorials
It would seem Colorado wants to hold onto winter, we have had 3 major snow storms every Tuesday for the last 3 weeks; today we finally seem to be warming up. I thought if I decorated some daisy cupcakes I might give colorado a punch in the arm, so to speak. If know...
by bobbienoto | Apr 17, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Home, Products, Tutorials
I was organizing my cookie cutters, and I came across a beautiful copper corset cookie cutter Sydney had given last summer. I couldn’t believe I had not used it yet. Since Sydney loves fondant I covered them in strawberry flavored and mocha-cinnamon fondant,...
by bobbienoto | Apr 2, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, featured, Gluten Free, Tutorials
Shoes are the number one accessory; women brag about how many pairs of shoes they have in their closet. Mariah Carey had Mario Buatta design an elegant space with gold-leaf and bleached-wood floors for her stilettos. Although my husband has to share his closet with my...
by bobbienoto | Mar 27, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Cookies and brownies, featured, Home, Tutorials
I was showing Sydney a two tone royal icing brush embroidery (that is a mouthful), and she thought the cookies would be a wonderful dessert to create for Mother’s Day. I must say I agree, the cookies would look exquisite in a clear top box with a blush pink...
