by | Jan 11, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cakes-Tutorials, Home, Spray-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
Rose are a traditional gift (for that special person in your life), 196 million roses are bought on Valentine’s day. Everyone loves to receive that inciting long rectangle box with aromatic rose laying on a pillow of tissue paper. However within a few days your...
by | Jan 9, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cupcakes-Tutorials, Home, Tutorials, Videos
If you are familiar with my posts and videos you know I enjoy showing a week of cupcakes, next a week of cookies, and a week of cakes; I want to show that any of my designs will work for decorating all of these pastries. This week I have been showing different...
by | Dec 27, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Home, Sugar Art-Tutorials
Sydney loves bows on boxes, she thought a three tier gift box cake with whimsical flowers, swirls, and of course bows would be an awesome New Year’s Eve cake! We wanted each tier to have it’s own special gift, the bottom is filled with peace, the middle...
by | Dec 24, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
I adore snow globes, they are all over our house. This year I wanted to capture Sydney’s first experience at the Nutcracker. She was barely two and although we had wonderful seats, she couldn’t see more than the shadows on the stage. I used a royal icing...
by | Dec 19, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Candies, Candy-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
I just had to share this fun and life-like Christmas tree piped with royal icing (including the ornaments)! Literally the entire tree including the drying time in between the leaves and the ornaments took 30 minutes, yet these christmas trees have a wow factor. After...
by | Dec 16, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
Creating a Colorado Christmas cake has been a pet project of mine for a while now, since last Christmas. Sydney and I designed the cake together, she constructed the filigree templates and the trees. It was an incredible experience working with Sydney for our first ...
by | Nov 9, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes-Tutorials, Tutorials
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...
by | Oct 31, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes-Tutorials, Spray-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
I promise on yesterday’s post “Take Your Sugar Rose to Ultimate Level with wired Petals” to add a bonus video: adding calyx and rose hips. Generally in a finished spray the calyx and rose hips are only sightly visible on an open rose or a fully open...
by | Oct 30, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Spray-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
Well, we finally are ready to take our gumpaste roses to fully open from open rose (the fourth stage). In the spray above I have one bud, 2 partially open roses, 4 open roses, and 3 fully open roses. To achieve a realistic fully open rose I will show you how to wire...
by | Oct 21, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cupcakes-Tutorials, Home, Tutorials
It is a family tradition once the season changes from summer to crisp colour autumn for our family to go hiking and as we take photographs of the majestic changing colours of the leaves, especially the oak trees. This year I thought it would be fun replicate the...
by | Sep 18, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes-Tutorials, featured, Home, Tutorials
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...
by bobbiebakes | Sep 4, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cookies-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
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...
by bobbiebakes | Aug 28, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Spray-Tutorials, Tutorials
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...
by | Aug 14, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cupcakes-Tutorials, Home, Tutorials
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),...
by | Aug 7, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Tutorials
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...
by | Jul 31, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Spray-Tutorials, Tutorials
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...
by bobbiebakes | Jul 24, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cakes-Tutorials, Gluten Free, Home, Spray-Tutorials, Tutorials
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...
by bobbiebakes | Jul 17, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Spray-Tutorials, Tutorials
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...
by | Jul 10, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Tutorials
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...
by | Jul 3, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Tutorials
Sydney has an amazing red dress, every time she wears the dress heads turn to look. Sydney had planned to wear the dress to her dad’s and mine 22nd anniversary. Due to her class schedule and her volunteer work she was unable to join DF and I. She was feeling a...
