by bobbienoto | Nov 18, 2013 | Home, Spray, Tutorials
Recently I had member question “why you are giving such precious information for free.” She was referring to: How to Create a Gumpaste Life-Like Rose: From Bud to Fully Open Series. The answer is quite simple I love my craft and want to share what I have...
by bobbienoto | Nov 11, 2013 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Home, Tutorials, Videos
I wanted to compose a unique Christmas video tutorial to start the holidays off with you. Sugar cookie christmas cards seemed to “fit the bill.” Who wouldn’t want a sugar cookie card? It is edible, personally designed for a special person in your...
by bobbienoto | Nov 7, 2013 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Home, Tutorials, Videos
With Autumn fully here I decided it might be fun to create some sugar cookie oak leaves with autumn colours. An airbrush is a wonderful method for cake decorating fondant or royal icing. With the airbrush method you have the option to layer a multitude of colors and...
by bobbienoto | Nov 6, 2013 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Home, Tutorials, Videos
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 into my cookie cutter storage drawers and found two cookie cutters to...
by bobbienoto | Oct 23, 2013 | Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
I have posted several tutorials with roses, the response has been wonderful. In fact I have had a plethora of requests to create a video. I wanted to be sure to give you as must detail as possible. I either had to have a VERY long video or compose a series of videos,...
by bobbienoto | Oct 21, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cupcakes, Home, Tutorials
It is a family tradition once the season changes from summer to crisp colour autumn for our family to go hiking and as we take photographs of the majestic changing colours of the leaves, especially the oak trees. This year I thought it would be fun replicate the...
by bobbienoto | Oct 16, 2013 | Cookies, Home, Tutorials, Videos
After spending the day at the arboretum picking out the perfect pumpkins and looking at the golden sunflowers I decided to bake up a batch of sugar cookies and paint them with sunflowers and sunflower leaves. Lately, my attention has turned toward edible painting on...
by bobbienoto | Oct 2, 2013 | Cakes, Cakes, Home, Tutorials, Videos
I am so pleased to be able to teach you how to paint “Limoges” style roses on a cake, as well as cookies or anything else you might cover in fondant. I am completely infatuated with hand painted fondant; brushstrokes on a smooth fondant surface allows for...
by bobbienoto | Sep 30, 2013 | Cakes, Cookies, Cupcakes, Home, Tutorials, Videos
Hand painting on edible cookies, cakes, and cupcakes have become extremely popular. Brides love the idea of a fondant covered wedding cake hand painted, the cake becomes a one-of-a-kind exclusive cake for a wedding. Hand painting on fondant, however is not limited to...
by bobbienoto | Sep 18, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, featured, Home, Tutorials
I have been blessed with so many of my readers enjoying my Purple Passion Fondant High Heel Shoe tutorial and requesting if I would create a video. I have put this video tutorial together, with the help of both Sydney and D.F. With Halloween upon us I thought it would...
by bobbienoto | Sep 11, 2013 | Home, Videos, x
This is part two of the Fashion Inspired Fondant: Great Gatsby Hat. The royal Icing filigree hatbox. You will need five sugar cookie squares 2-1/2 by 2-1/2 for each hat. As I mention in the Great Gatsby hat post the sugar cookies are for a wedding in May and I thought...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 12, 2013 | Cakes, Cakes, Home, Spray, Tutorials
Peonies are one of my favorite flowers, we have had them adorn our landscaping for almost 22 years; I remember planting our first peony plant with Sydney (she was almost two) and it just happened to be Mother’s Day. As I was covering the the second cake Sydney...
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 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,...
