Our Cake Recipes
Bridgeless String-Work Holiday Cake
Most cake decorators refer to this style of royal icing extensions as Australian string-work, but it actually originated in the UK, by master cake decorator Ernest Schulbe around the late 1800s early 1900s. It is also known as 'wing work' and associated with South...
Learn How to Pipe Royal Icing Oriental String-Work
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...
Sugar and Hand Painted Cherry Blossom Cake Tutorial
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...
Hand Painted Petal Cake
I adore how intricate, unique and artistic celebration cakes have become! It seams the skies the limit, more often we are seeing cakes with vision and uniqueness. Hand painted cakes have become a trend over the past couple of years and it seems the trend is here to...
Spring Fondant Frill Mini Cake with Sugar Pansy Spray
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 this year and...
Saint Patrick’s Day Cupcakes, Pot of Gold and Leprechaun Hat
It is time for us to have fun and good fortune with a special St. Patty's Day pot of gold and leprechaun hat created with modeling chocolate tutorial. Dating back to Medieval times, in Europe , the legend of the pot of gold is enthusiastically told by the Irish. The...
You Hold the Key to My Heart Cupcake Tutorial
I wanted to share a fun Valentine's Day tutorial with you (my way of saying Happy Valentine's Day)! I began by baking up a batch of cupcakes and a batch of royal icing, while the cupcakes were doing their own thing, baking, I used the time to sketch some ideas...
Vintage English Garden Cupcake Video
I was recently commissioned to create vintage cupcakes for a wedding. The wedding, itself, will have a turn of the century theme and cupcakes will flow with the theme. The bride graciously invited me to her bridal gown fitting,in order to have the cupcake be inspired...
Pretty Pink Fabric Tufted Billow Weave Tutorial
I just adore tufted billow weave on a cake, and have decorated quite a few cakes with the tufted billow weave method. Susan Trianos started the puffing trend and it would behove you to visit her website. She has an exquisite cake gallery! Back to the cake above: after...
Good Fortune Cherry Blossom Cupcake Tutorial
I was asked to review New York Baking company's silicone baking buddies. New york's Baking Company was kind enough to send their very bright silicone cups in exchange for my honest opinion of the baking buddies. I have baked 3 batches of cupcakes using the silicone...
Colorado Wonderland Cake Video
Creating a Colorado Christmas cake has been a pet project of mine for a while now, since last Christmas. Sydney and I designed the cake together, she constructed the filigree templates and the trees. It was an incredible experience working with Sydney for our first ...
White Chocolate Cranberry Cake
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...