Welcome to Part 2 of your online stringwork tutorials! To recap the last lesson, you learned Basic Stringwork, which rests right against the side of the cake. The key was consistency in piping and loop length. Today, we’re jumping to one of the ADVANCED stringwork methods! These strings will come right off the side of …
Ever heard of Handy Manny? I hadn’t until Debbie asked me to help out with a Handy Manny cake. I guess I’m just too old and don’t have any kiddos of my own yet…but I had no clue… Debbie sent me some pictures, and he’s a cute little guy! So for the Handy Manny cake, …
Brace yourself. This giveaway may make you fall right out of your seat. The amazing people at Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot are giving away the new Cricut Cake (and a bunch of other prizes)! What? You haven’t heard about the Cricut Cake??? Have you had your head in the sand??? Just teasing! It’s the newest, latest, …
Let’s start off the weekend the right way – with some fun and COLOR! Lime green & hot pink, to be exact. From the bright colors to the zebra stripes, aren’t you already feeling festive??? This cake was iced in buttercream and decorated with all fondant and gum paste accents. I personally love ribbon roses. …
Last weekend, Debbie & I created a really unique wedding cake. The cakes themselves were pretty unremarkable – just covered in fondant with a small bead border. But instead of flowers or sugar decorations, the bride chose to decorate the cake with real fruit! At first I thought…”hm…definitely different…” But now I’m thinking, I love …
One of the more fun cakes I got to decorate last week was for an 8-year-old’s birthday party. Mary Madelyn (don’t you just love the name Madelyn???) was having her party at a bowling alley so we decorated the cake to match her colorful, hip invitations. The cake was iced in two different shades of …
Well, Easter has come and gone…and Adam did not win the Golden Ticket from Sucre. Oh well, maybe next time. However, he LOVES the milk chocolate egg! Knowing him, he’ll savor it for the next year. If it were me, it’d be gone tomorrow…but that’s just me. To be honest, we actually have TWO milk …
As promised, I will now begin posting tutorials for stringwork and extensionwork! There are many different kinds of stringwork so I’ll be dividing the tutorials into different posts. Here are the plans right now: Part 1 – Basic StringworkPart 2 – Stringwork with a BridgePart 3 – Bridgeless StringworkPart 4 – Oriental Stringwork If there …
Wedding cakes are great! While I’m decorating them, I like to try to imagine the bride and groom on what is possibly the happiest day of their life. I picture them cutting the cake and oo-ing and ah-ing over the decorations. It makes me smile. But I have to admit that decorating wedding cakes sometimes …
Earlier this year, Debbie was featured in a local parenting magazine called Giggle. On the cover of the issue was a larger-than-life photo of a cake she made with about 30 different mini gift packages. She has gotten a really positive response to it, and even got an order for a similar cake a few …