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Your subtitle goes right here.Adorable Christmas Cupcakes
You won’t believe how entertaining and easy to create these adorable cupcakes. The embellishments have endless possibilities, start by sketching your cupcake on paper. I promise your creative side will take over. I had more embellishments than spiraled Christmas tree...
Christmas Cookies with Wet on Wet Piping
Between cooking and baking since Monday for yesterday's Thanksgiving, and Black Friday shopping it is nice to know you can design an elegant Christmas cookie in 9 minutes. Wet on wet piping is using the same royal icing consistency throughout the design (with the...
Delicate Oriental String-Work
A cake piped with Oriental string-work gives wow-factor. The method of beautiful Oriental string-work involves piping a series of overlapping loops around the side of a cake to make intricate woven designs. Many cake decorators will avoid making cakes piped with...
Festive Scenery Piped on a Sugar Cookie
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is placing candles in the windows of our home. I wanted to recreate the mood and excitement of the Christmas season on a sugar cookie. The cookies above are a great way to practice basic pressure piping skills, scrolls,...
How to Sculpt Santa Claus Cupcakes
Christmas time seems to bring out my inner child. I remember waiting for Santa Claus is Coming To Town to air every year (this was prior to VHS and DVDs). I could not wait to see Fred Astaire (he happens to be in another favorite Christmas movie, Holiday Inn) narrate...
Winter Wonderland Christmas Cake
I normally wait until after Thanksgiving to start Christmas decorating, however royal icing decorations may be stored in an airtight container indefinitely. I wanted to give you time to create your royal icing trees. The cake (I chose a Madeira cake) is covered with a...










