Shopping for Royal Icing Decorations
Where can I buy royal icing flowers and decorations at a discounted price?
Cake Decorating Tips and Tricks
This guide contains cake decorating tips and tricks. There are many creative ways to decorate that special cake.
Keeping Butter Cream Frosting from Melting
How do bakeries keep butter cream frosting from melting in hot and humid weather when transporting over 250 miles?
This guide contains spring cake pop ideas. Cake pops for your spring event can be a fun, festive addition.
Cake pops fit the bill for many small delicious servings for a birthday celebration. This guide contains birthday cake pop ideas.
Preserving the Tops of Frosted Cakes
Do you hate it when you have a lovely frosted cake and you don't know how to cover it without the frosting sticking to the foil or other covering? The little plastic "tripods" that come with your pizza are ideal.
This is a guide about frugal cake decorating ideas. A beautifully decorated cake is the centerpiece for celebrations such as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries and many more.
After you have frosted your cake, use a hair dryer to go over the icing just until it begins to melt. Your cake will have a shiny, professional look.
Using Candy Melts Without a Mold
I want to make a dinosaur skeleton for my son's birthday cake that will lay in the cookie crumb topping like it's a dinosaur dig. It was suggested to me that I use candy melts to pipe bones out on wax paper. If I'm not using a candy mold, will it just run all over or spread?
I recently made an Angry Birds cake for my son's 10th birthday. I made all of the decorations out of fondant. In total it took me about 10 hours to complete it. I sculpted each piece by hand.
This is a guide about Halloween cupcake ideas. Cupcakes are a great treat that can easily be decorated to fit any holiday. There are many ways to decorate cupcakes for Halloween.
Craft Project: Gumpaste Flowers
Learn how to make beautiful flowers to decorate a cake, made from store bought gumpaste.
Problem Thinning Wilton Candy Melts
I'm unable to get the Wilton melts thin enough to dip cake pops or to use as a drizzle. What is the trick to this?
Make a simple box cake into a huge "hamburger" cake by adding a few modifications. I used 9 inch round tins to bake yellow cake and cut them in half to form hamburger buns.
Lemon juice and some powdered sugar will make a nice glaze for a plain cake or quick bread. Just put a cup of sifted powdered sugar and a teaspoon of lemon juice in a bowl.
When making powder sugar frosting, why wash a bowl and utensil to stir with? Slip a plastic bag in a coffee mug and turn the top edge down over the rim of the cup. Put your ingredients in and zip the bag closed, mixing the frosting by hand.
Making a Lacy Pattern on a Cake
A simple technique for decorating a chocolate cake is to lay a paper doily on top, Sift on powdered sugar, then lift doily off carefully to leave a design.
I made this cake for a very good friend. It's a chocolate cake decorated with black and red fondant. It was her 40th birthday so I wanted something simple but spectacular! Everyone at the party loved it!
Here is a cake I made for my one son's second birthday! He loves Toy Story and I just couldn't come up with an idea for a cool cake. So I came up with the idea of doing a picture transfer after reading about them online.
My girlfriend made this bowling alley cake for her fiance's 45th birthday.
Make A Heart Cake Without A Heart Shaped Pan
No need to buy a special heart-shaped pan when you want to make a heart-shaped cake. Use one 8 or 9 inch round pan plus one 8 or 9 inch square pan. When the baked cake is cooled, cut the round cake in half.
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If you're looking for a stunning cake and don't want to purchase specialty pans and dolls, then this is your cake. Use your preferred boxed cake mix and mix according to directions.
Craft Project: Driver's License Cake Topper
I was short on time but wanted to have a little afterschool surprise for my daughter who her passed her driver's test today. So I whipped out a chocolate chip cookie mix, spread it in a square pan and made this funny topper, which includes the new driver and her older sister, with my photo software.
This baby shower cake was a hit! IT'S A GIRL!
Making Roses for Decorated Cakes
I have decorated cakes for 30+ years and recently developed a way to make beautiful roses for wedding and specialty cakes by hand, using regular icing instead of fondant.
