by bobbienoto | Mar 12, 2014 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Home, Tutorials
Easter is just around the corner and every year I create special Easter baskets filled with custom cookies,candies, and other treats. I found this large egg cookie cutter and visioned an exquisite frilled sugar cookie with a light ombre effect. After applying the...
by bobbienoto | Mar 2, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Home, Tutorials
EVERYBODY’S GOT AN OPINION. When it comes to the Academy Awards’ red carpet, that’s about 40 million or more will be handing down judgments about this actress’s ill-fitting dress or that one’s overly done. It’s enough to give both...
by bobbienoto | Feb 19, 2014 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Home, Tutorials, Videos
I thought it might be fun to learn a new method of brush embroidery..Victorian brush embroidery. Although the name sounds fancy the technique to create victorian brush embroidery is quite simple. Victorian brush embroidery generally is applied with two colours of...
by bobbienoto | Feb 9, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Home, Tutorials
The 86th Oscars will be held on March 2, 2014 with Ellen DeGeneres hosting. The anticipation for those few minutes the actors/directors et cetra will walk the Red Carpet starts with finding the perfect designer and commission them to create a one of a kind dress. The...
by bobbienoto | Feb 1, 2014 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Home, Tutorials, Videos
Tomorrow at 4:30 kick off will begin for Super Bowl XLVIII. Payton Manning and Russell Wilson will be face to face in New Jersey at the MetLife stadium (freezing there tush off). Unlike Super Bowl I, where The Green Bay Packer’s quarterback Bart Starr and The...
by bobbienoto | Jan 24, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Home, Videos, x
I love working with both sugar paste and royal icing together; especially when designing with the broderie anglaise technique. You could use either medium alone, however I think it adds a special touch when combined. Broderie Anglaise is a French/English needlework...
by bobbienoto | Jan 22, 2014 | Cookies, Home, Tutorials, Videos
I own, as many of us do, a plethora of square cutters. I use them for mini cakes, sugar cookies, and biscuits. I try and use them as much as possible, however I sometimes find myself in a rut. It was literally kismet that I was playing around with scratch piping...
by bobbienoto | Jan 20, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Creations, Home, Tutorials, Videos
You know you have achieved cake/cookie decorating mania when you see a comforter online and it inspires you to recreate the effect on a cookie (this technique could be constructed on a cake as well). I was extremely pleased how eloquent the final result looked. My...
by bobbienoto | Jan 15, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Home, Videos, x
With lace once again being a romantic and popular choice for brides and weddings, I thought a sugar cookie decorated with a laced fantasy rose laying on a lace background and piped with a lace border would be perfect for a bridal shower or wedding favors. Not only...
by bobbienoto | Dec 30, 2013 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Home, Tutorials, Videos
Nicolas Jebran’s designs are cutting edge yet classic; his dresses flow with movement. Sydney and I were looking at his Winter 2014 collection when we both were drawn to the same dress, although neither Sydney nor I can purchase the dress for New Year’s...
by bobbienoto | Dec 24, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Tutorials, Videos
I adore snow globes, they are all over our house. This year I wanted to capture Sydney’s first experience at the Nutcracker. She was barely two and although we had wonderful seats, she couldn’t see more than the shadows on the stage. I used a royal icing...
by bobbienoto | Dec 8, 2013 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Home, Tutorials, Videos
I was looking at cookie cutters when I am across Blossom’sWedding Cake – Roses Cookie Cutter & Stamp Set. I placed an order and waited for my cutters (plus a few other fun cake decorating materials). I baked a batch of the wedding cake cookies the...
by bobbienoto | Nov 24, 2013 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Gluten Free, Home, Products, Tutorials, Videos
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 (even days depending on design and layers), while a cookie is not as time...
by bobbienoto | Nov 19, 2013 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Home, Tutorials, Videos
I wanted to share a quick royal icing technique, wet on wet. Wet on wet is a method of using a royal icing constancy of 10-12 seconds to top outline, coat, and decorate your cookies in a few minutes. For the poinsettia cookie above it literally took me 3.5 minutes...
by bobbienoto | Nov 13, 2013 | Cookies, Cookies and brownies, Creations, Gluten Free, Tutorials, Videos
I was asked by a friend if I could bake him a batch of gluten free sugar cookies. I have baked several pastries in the past that were gluten free (mostly bread and pastries), but I realized I had never tried to bake a batch of gluten free sugar cookies. I realized...
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 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 15, 2013 | Cookies, Tutorials, Videos
Autumn always seems to sneak up upon me; most likely due to Colorado ever changing weather from day to day. Sunday the temperature reached 27 degreesC/ 79 degrees F, and today the high will peak at 1 degree C/ 33 degrees F (It is snowing as I write this post)....
