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A Few of My Favorite Things
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Since starting out on my cake decorating journey a year ago, I have spent more money and bought more tools and equipment than I would have thought imaginable...
A Learning Experience
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Since the birth of my first granddaughter ten months ago, I have been busy baking and decorating cakes to celebrate every one of her monthly milestone birthd...
A Sea of Ice-Cream
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For lack of any better ideas, I decided to make my thirty plus year old son an upright, gravity defying ice-cream cone cake for his birthday. He loves ice-c...
A Shine, Anyone?
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I've been working on a new project whose spotlight is a deep shine on the dark modeling chocolate that is supposed to resemble freshly poured chocolate syrup...
Book Review: Artisan Cake Company’s Visual Guide to Cake Decorating
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Take your cake decorating skills to the next level with The Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating!
Cakeless in Ireland
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I've spent the past two weeks vacationing in Ireland. The closest that I came to cake decorating of any sort was the eating of several not very tasty or even...
Crocuses in Bloom
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I received an e-mail this past week from a dear friend who lives in New York. "They're finally here," she wrote. "The crocuses have broken thru the ground...
Ermine -The Cinderella of the Buttercreams
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American, Swiss, French, German, Italian. What do they have in common? They are all buttercreams, of course! With seemingly so many countries represented, ...
Fondant Failure
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Based on the success of a buttercream piped 3d me to you teddy cake I made last month, a friend asked me to make a cake for her class at college. "I would li...
Food Colors – Natural versus Synthetic
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I've been asked to write about the differences between natural food colors and the synthetic ones that most cake decorators seem to use. Many brand name com...
Frilling It My Way
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There are countless cake decorators who frill and ruffle fondant to add dimension, interest, glamour, and even clothes to their edible creations.
Frills and Lace and All Things Girly
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I have never worn a garment adorned with lace, and a pink blouse never enticed me to make a purchase. I just have never been into the frilly girly stuff, alt...
Green … As in Cake! (green tea cake recipe)
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Green has come to symbolize springtime … but also envy and even the rot of mold. Never would I have thought to bake a green cake, yet alone set one on a tab...
Homemade Sugar Lace
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I'm probably the last to have heard about this, but then again maybe I'm not...
Homemade Sugar Lace – An Experiment and a Postscript
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I am utterly in love with my newest lace mats and wanted to incorporate one on a butter cream covered cake that I'm in the process of making...but I heard th...
Kitchen Toys
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"Sign here", said the post woman as she handed me a pen, a large pad of paper containing dates, names and signatures all neatly divided into columns, and a s...
Make it Vegan – Egg and Sugar Free Spice Cookies
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"Hey, Mom, your new batch of cookies is really pretty, but you know, of course, that I won't eat any," wrote my daughter in an e-mail response to my latest f...
Make It Vegan – Vegan Lemon Cream Cake Recipe
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First of all, my apologies to Chef Yener for tweaking his eggless sponge cake recipe. I did request vegan recipes, but since none were currently in the plan...
Make It Vegan – Chocolate Revisited
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My brother and I grew up with a Mom that baked. There was no such thing as not having cake in the house, and it was always fresh and there was always plenty....
Newbie Cookie Maker’s Favorite Recipes
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Few things can beat the flavor of the good, old homemade cookie, but it still requires a bit of culinary knowledge.
Ode to a Toothpick – The Ultimate Utensil
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Have you ever wondered how this super simple and yet fantastically useful tool came to be? Numerous sources point out that a form of tooth pick goes back to ...
One Idea Leads to Another – Cookies ‘N’ Cake
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A very talented cake designer and poster on a site that I frequent came up with what seemed to be an ingenious and perhaps even revolutionary idea in the wor...
Purim Cakes
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I'm sure that we have all experienced it, that taste of something that throws you back to your childhood. Every family has that one relative, whether a mom, ...
Royal Icing for the Timid Baker
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Oh how I love when things work out even better than expected! A couple of years ago, right at the beginning of my venture into cake decorating, Royal Icin...
The Carousel
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A really simple cake, if you think about it. Or, perhaps, it's simple only if you don't think about it too much. My carousel cake is basically one four in...
