This is one of my favorite tools in the kitchen. The Silpat Silicone mat is a must have in todays bakery. You can do so many things with it. You can bake cookies or other goods on it, pour and knead hot sugar on it, and roll out any dough on it, including fondant. It is very diverse and useful. I highly recommend you getting several to have on hand in your kitchen. I love this product. In this same ...
Continue Reading →I love this cake! It was inspired by a pic that my good friend Amy Parman brought to me of a gown that was covered in pleated curly ruffles and had dark grey platinum fabric roses sewn on it. This was my inspiration for this cake and became a very popular design. The ruffles are made from 50% fondant and 50% gumpaste. I cut them into a long ribbon and then scolloped the edges with a cutter and ...
Continue Reading →As you can see, style does matter! Also, this is an example of taking an otherwise ordinary but pretty cake and making it extraordinary with what we did around it. We built a stage, a truss and styled the table. It all integrated beautifully with the entire space!
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Although, I have become mostly a fondant wedding cake designer, like you, I started out doing all of my cakes in buttercream. Smoothing buttercream as perfect as possible is an art and a learned skill. There are many ways of doing it and we will discuss some of the those techniques in the upcoming buttercream series of classes.
One of my favorite techniques that I love is the basket-weave technique. Not only is it cool that you can create the look ...
Continue Reading →Like many of you I am a self-taught baker and cake designer. Like you, I started out making cakes at home for my friends and family. After many years and literally thousands of cakes, I have had the opportunity to use many, many different types of mixers, handheld as well as stand mixers.
I thought I would hi-light from my experience my two favorite mixers on the market available at one of my favorite and most convenient places to shop Amazon.com. ...
Continue Reading →When it comes to cake design, I really think many times less is more. No, seriously. Sometimes the simplest designs without much detail can be very complex. Here is an example of a beautiful cake that I designed for a lovely client this past summer and I think its simplicity says it all.
The base of the cake is ivory white chocolate fondant and the flowers and the garrett frill is done with equal parts gumpaste and fondant mix, 50% each. ...
Continue Reading →Good morning everyone! I’m so excited to share this great news with you all as start the next chapter of my cake life!! Ever wanted to take a cake class from me and it was just too far away or it didn’t make sense? Or maybe it was just too expensive….well, now you can! I will begin filming this week a series of educational classes where anyone can register ...
Continue Reading →Love her or hate her, we all know who she is and we all know how influential she is. We also know that brides hang on her every word when it comes to weddings and wedding styles or trends. BTW, I happen to love her! Always have and always will. Now that I’ve declared my love for you publicly Martha I can tell everyone about my experience collaborating with Martha Stewart Weddings to design and produce this beautiful pink heart ...
Continue Reading →Hi everyone! Since my blog is new I thought I would do our first class showing you some of the basics of cake decorating wiht buttercream or Cake Decorating 101 I guess you could say. This is going to be a really informative class that will allow the beginnier to master the basic skills of cake decorating. This is a very important class. You will learn the following techniques in ...
Continue Reading →I’m so excited to announce my new Dessert and Cake blog! I want to take moment to thank you personally for coming to my blog. This will certainly be one of the longest post you will see on here because I feel it is necessary to share with you all the exciting things that I have happening and give you insight in what to expect from this blog spot. First and foremost the mission of this blog is to educate ...
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