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 …
Hippos are my favorite animal. I can’t explain exactly why…I just love them! Maybe it’s because they have such an awesome name……because they have huge teeth in an even larger mouth… Photo Taken From Here …because they have a ridiculously small tail and a jumbo rear end. Photo Taken From Here …because they look like …
As a child, I remember that one of my favorite books was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. The caterpillar eats his way through plums, cherry pie, sausage, etc. during the week until he’s plump and sick to his tummy. Then, he miraculously undergoes metamorphosis into a beautiful butterfly! Last week, I was lucky …
I love diaper cakes for so many reasons:1. You don’t have to dirty up any dishes to make them.2. You don’t have to fire up the oven.3. The recipient gets lots of awesome stuff!4. They’re adorable! So what is a diaper cake? It’s basically just a stack of clean, unused (that’s an important detail) diapers …
I made this cake weeks ago for Ms Debbie’s Sugar Art but I’ve been slow to post the photos. I promise I’ll get better about that! The number of cakes I do per weeks has REALLY increased since I’ve started working with Debbie so I’m trying not to fall behind on posting them. Anyway, here’s …
So now that we’ve made a TON of homemade marshmallows, what do we do with them? There’s always the old stand-by…S’mores! Think about it. A banana-flavored marshmallow melted on a bed of dark chocolate between two graham crackers. Wow. Or wait! Smear a little peanut butter on one of the graham crackers…now you’re talking! Or …
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