by bobbienoto | Dec 15, 2013 | Candies, Candy, Tutorials
Glacé fruit is no ordinary gift, it takes at least 3 days to properly candied the citrus fruit, however the succulent taste is well worth the effort. Purchasing glacé fruit can cost at least $60.00 for 2 pounds, therefore when the recipient of the glacé fruit receives...
by bobbienoto | Dec 11, 2013 | Cakes, Tutorials
The weather has been frigid here for the past week (6 degrees F/-15 degrees C), baking has become the best solution to keep warm, besides it is holiday baking time! Monday I decided to bake 6 of our traditional white chocolate cranberry cakes. These loaf cakes are...
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 | Dec 5, 2013 | Candies, Candy, Creations, Home, Tutorials
Every year I am asked if I have an easy and economical recipe for holiday gift giving. Most people want to give a small gift to their milkman, post person, tutors et cetera to show appreciation. Candied spice nuts are perfect. You can package them up in a...
by bobbienoto | Dec 3, 2013 | Candy, Cupcakes, Home, Tutorials, Videos
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, these cupcake where inspired by The Grinch. You...
by bobbienoto | Dec 1, 2013 | Cupcakes, Tutorials, Videos
I was asked to design Santa Claus cupcakes for a client’s office party, as luck would have it Sydney was home for Thanksgiving break. I must admit it was exhilarating to be baking along side Sydney. I love when we work as a team and I take full advantage of our...
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 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 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 9, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Tutorials
With the holiday season approaching (quite fast) I thought it might be fun to share a tutorial on a sugar snowman cake. I was inspired by Alan Dunn’s Christmas Cakes (a perfect gift for any cake enthusiast). I knew the cake would be a fun project, but I must...
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 31, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
I promise on yesterday’s post “Take Your Sugar Rose to Ultimate Level with wired Petals” to add a bonus video: adding calyx and rose hips. Generally in a finished spray the calyx and rose hips are only sightly visible on an open rose or a fully open...
by bobbienoto | Oct 30, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
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 open roses. To achieve a realistic fully open rose I will show you how to wire...
by bobbienoto | Oct 25, 2013 | Cakes, Tutorials, Videos
This the third series Learn How to Create a Gumpaste Life-Like Rose. In the first two series we completed a rose bud and a partially open rose (the transition phase).On the last video we had taken the rose buds to transitioning from a closed bud to showing their...
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...
