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Fashion Inspired Great Gatsby Hat
I had a client contact me after seeing the 1920 Antique Lace Royal Icing Brush Embroidery Clock; inquiring if I could design wedding favor cookies from the Great Gatsby era. Her daughter's May wedding is fashioned inspired from the movie. I thought hats and hat boxes...
Antique Lace Royal Icing Brush Embroidery Clock Video
Sydney's favorite book is the Great Gatsby ( by F.Scott Fitzgerald); I had promised her when Baz Luhrmann rendition of the movie was available I would purchase two copies. One copy of the movie for Sydney and one copy for D.F. and I, therefore we could all watch it...
Gumpaste Alstroemeria Lily with Full Blown Roses
As you know my daughter and best friend, Sydney turned twenty-one last week. It was a fun week filled with twenty-one lavender macarons, sushi from our favorite restaurant, and she had finally decided on a cake and topper. It was wonderful creating together again, and...
White Chocolate-Limoncello Cupcakes with a Kiss Surprise
DF has been going through pound cake withdrawal, as you know from reading past posts DF, my husband, LOVES my pound cake flavor combinations. He was used to having a different flavored pound cake every other week (he would have a piece for breakfast each morning),...
Learn Designer Fondant Ruching on a Sugar Cookie
Fondant fabric techniques have become brilliantly popular in the past few years and ruching is no exception. Ruching is a French term which means to gather, ruffle, or pleat; the term is a sewing technique in which fabric or ribbon is gathered in a repeating pattern...
Bamboo and Asian Orchid Cookie Frames
For quite sometime I have been waiting to create a bamboo framed sugar cookie with Spathoglottis orchids, better known as Asian Ground Orchids. I had promised Sydney I would wait for her to come home in order for us to design the sugar cookie frames together. She has...
Mariposa Lily Cake Spray
I love Mariposa Lilies they are so elegant and tranquil so I created my version of this peaceful spray to adorn the top of a fabric billow weave cake. Mariposa (or “butterfly”) in Spanish are peaceful beautifully colored flowers that can thrive in harsh environments...
Elegant Sugar Paste Summer Spray
With Sydney's 21 birthday a little more than one month away, I am still trying to create the perfect spray for her cake. Sydney saw a similar spray in Alan Dunn's Creative Cakes when she was home for spring break. Sydney loves orchids; there are five Spathoglottis...
Roses From Piping to Full Blown Sugar Paste Tutorial
While preparing fondant covered sugar cookies to send to Sydney I realized there are several mediums, in cake decorating, for creating decorative roses. From easy and fast rosettes, piped royal icing roses, gumpaste fabric roses, to full blown sugar paste roses. All...