All Blog Posts Tagged 'cake' (50)

Birthday, valentine’s Days and any special occasion are incomplete without a delicious cake. Cakes are universally preferred to celebrate cheery occasions, by treating our taste buds. It goes without the saying, that lovebirds anticipate this day with much delight and expectations; so why let that go to waste? Commemorate your day of love with a delicious cake that would leave your sweetheart craving for more. Gifts are available in every budget and range. Be it flowers, chocolates, teddy…

Normally during the birthdays, everybody prefers to cut the cake, Kids want to cut a cake of cartoon or super hero's shape, Elder want it well decorated with good taste. The best thing about cake is that they are available in huge variety, sizes, and shapes. You can choose the one you want according to the occasion and event.

Whether you are hunting…

Cakes are delicious and one of the most popular deserts available in the world. These days, varieties of cakes are available. There are too many flavors and shapes along with decorations and one can choose from the endless number of options available.

To send birthday cakes online, one can choose a birthday cake from online cake websites and send it to the one who you wish to send those cakes on their birthdays.

Why people started cutting cakes on their…

I can remember watching  Dr.Seuss’ “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” every December since I was little. The 1957 book was adapted into a short film during the 1960′s. It alway mesmerized me, these cupcake where inspired by The Grinch.

You won’t believe how entertaining and easy to create these adorable cupcakes. The embellishments…

I was asked to design Santa Claus cupcakes for a client’s office party, as luck would have it Sydney was home for Thanksgiving break. I must admit it was  exhilarating to be baking along side Sydney. I love when we work as a team and I take full advantage of our family time!

The Santa Claus cupcakes were inspired by the movie “Santa Claus is…

I have been wanting to create a tutorial on the art of scroll piping with royal icing. It is easier to learn on a sugar cookie prior to an entire cake, piping an entire cake can take hours (even days depending on design and layers), while a cookie is not as time consuming.  The candle light cookie was inspired by Eddie Spence’s book The Art of Royal Icing: A…

I wanted to share a quick royal icing technique, wet on wet. Wet on wet  is a method of using a royal icing constancy of 10-12 seconds to top outline, coat, and decorate your cookies  in a few minutes. For the poinsettia cookie above it literally took me 3.5 minutes to outline, cover, and decorate. Once the wet on wet method was finished I allowed the sugar…

Chocolate Banana Cake is a delicious cake that needs no frosting. A very moist cake is a great dessert. Whip this up for your next dinner party.

Prepare the following ingredients:

• One half cup of sunflower oil
• One cup of caster sugar
• One and a half cup of all-purpose flour
• One teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• Two…

With the holiday season approaching (quite fast) I thought it might be fun to share a tutorial on a sugar snowman cake. I was inspired by Alan Dunn’s  Christmas Cakes (a perfect gift for any cake enthusiast). I knew the cake would be a fun project, but I must admit I was caught off guard at the amount of excitement that came over me as I began…

 I wanted to create cornucopia sugar cookies for edible place cards on our Thanksgiving table; only I found I did not own a cornucopia cookie cutter. I wasn’t going to let that stop me I went into my cookie cutter storage drawers and found two cookie cutters to design DIY cornucopia sugar cookie. I used a witches hat and circle cookie cutter. I couldn’t be sure if my…

I have been blessed with so many of my readers enjoying my Purple Passion Fondant High Heel Shoe tutorial and requesting if I would create a video. I have put this video tutorial together, with the help of both Sydney and D.F. With Halloween upon us I thought it would be fun to to create a Halloween platform stiletto, the toe piece is a bat and the heel has a…

Exciting and eloquent fashions from Stephane Rolland’s Spring/Summer Haute Couture Collection during Paris Fashion Spring Week, 2013-14. The collection is immediately recognizable as Stephane Rolland designs. The angular shapes, strong emphasis on curves, and floral designs. His use of “new techniques, mineral effects; specifically a silicone  gel like…

While Sydney was home  this past weekend, for a VERY short time, we visited the Botanical gardens. As we walked around the flowers and greenery I saw a Flamboyant Mayflower and  became mesmerized by it’s beauty! The Flamboyant Mayflower is known for its flamboyant display of flowers. In many tropical parts of the world it is grown as an ornamental tree and in…

Peonies are one of my favorite flowers, we have had them adorn our landscaping for almost 22 years; I remember planting our first peony plant with Sydney (she was almost two) and it just happened to be Mother’s Day. As I was covering the the second cake Sydney came through the door ready for 10 days of fun (she is spending the summer in DC). I had originally…

I posted  a few days ago Sydney will be turning 21, and I am creating a few different cakes for her to choose from for her party. This is the first cake for her to view. This cake is a billow weave, Susan Trianos has a wonderful video explaining how she creates a wonderful tufted billow weave cake. The first time I saw the billow weave I thought of…

I love a full open rose sitting on top of a cake. It is a simple touch of elegance. I had planned on designing a few cakes for Sydney to choose from for 21st birthday party. The first element I need is for her to choose from is the type of topper; she is leaning towards  a flower. She wanted to see a few different types, last year we designed Butterfly…

I'm not sure if anyone is interested in this but I made a banana cake that everyone raved about.  It is very moist.  Here is the link to the recipe:  http://dessert.food.com/recipe/best-ever-banana-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting-67256.

I filled it with chocolate ruffle filling and used chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream.

The truffle filling…

I have been watching General Hospital for 48 of the 50 years it has aired on ABC, my grandma and I would await for every new adventure each day at 2:00 pm CT. I skipped school on November 17th 1981 to watch Luke and Laura”s wedding, I actually missed a few more days leading up to the event. I cried in 1994 when Maxie Jones needed a heart transplant; her…

I was showing Sydney a two tone royal icing brush embroidery (that is a mouthful), and she thought the cookies would be a wonderful dessert to create for Mother’s Day. I must say I agree,  the cookies would look exquisite in a clear top box with a blush pink ribbon. In fact I am planning on remaking the exact…