by bobbienoto | Apr 26, 2015 | 5th Avenue Cake Designs, Cakes, Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
English royal icing over-piping has been around since 1900, the technique fell into the background in the late 80’s with the arrival and popularity of smooth fondant. The beauty of intricately piped details, scrolls and swags was almost a lost art. Luckily, Martha...
by bobbienoto | Apr 22, 2015 | 5th Avenue Cake Designs, Cakes, Cookies, Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
Edible wedding favors have become a popular choice for couples to give their guests as a thank you and reminder of their special day. These cookies are a Lambeth inspired with scrolls, toothpick roses and leaves, and are a perfect delicious choice for any wedding. For...
by bobbienoto | Nov 30, 2014 | Cakes, Cakes, Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
Oriental string-work looks complicated, but actually it is not as hard as it appears. If you have an understanding to the the three essentials of cake decorating and good royal icing recipe You can recreate the cakes above or elevate your string to another level. You...
by bobbienoto | Oct 22, 2014 | Cookies, Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
Awareness and education are the best defenses against cancer, Bobbie Bakes at 5th Avenue Cake Designs created a wonderful and yummy means to help Pintkober awareness month. Tufted billow weave is an elegant technique combine with the dainty roses and the awareness...
by bobbienoto | Oct 16, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Spray, Videos
These Halloween critter cookies from 5th Avenue Cake Designs are so adorable I just had to share the post with you! These would be awesome for a Halloween party or a Halloween favor! To recreate the cookies you’ll be making gumpaste oak leaves, sugar acorn caps,...
by bobbienoto | Apr 14, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies, Cupcakes, Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
I was asked to teach six 6th grade girls how create gum paste roses, for a slumber party activity. After careful deliberation I decided it would be best to have a class on making roses without venires or cutters. Roses are extremely technical and with six eleven old...
by bobbienoto | Mar 21, 2014 | Creations, Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
Cherry Blossoms have been a favorite of mine as long as I can remember. Their dreamy presence along with the soft beautiful pink colour are an attention grabber and make them the perfect cake topper for any special occasion, especially weddings. I decided to research...
by bobbienoto | Mar 19, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Creations, Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
Cherry blossoms have a delicate and mysterious presence. They bloom in early spring and the aroma the blossoms give is enticing. They are perfect blossoms for wedding cakes, you can add them to almost any sugar spray for an extra special touch, they also are perfect...
by bobbienoto | Mar 5, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes, Cupcakes, Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
I realize the world’s most famous weather forecaster, Punxsutawney Phil, saw his shadow and declared six more weeks of Winter. I however refuse to except that forecast! This winter has been insane, with my daughter’s university shutting down four times...
by bobbienoto | Jan 11, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Home, Spray, Tutorials, Videos
Rose are a traditional gift (for that special person in your life), 196 million roses are bought on Valentine’s day. Everyone loves to receive that inciting long rectangle box with aromatic rose laying on a pillow of tissue paper. However within a few days your...
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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
