by bobbiebakes | Aug 18, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Cupcakes-Tutorials, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
I thought it would fun to learn how to make these cute and cheerful royal icing daisies (in minutes) with this video tutorial. All you will need is an understanding of pressure control, bag potions, and the correct constancy of the icing. In addition to a few...
by bobbiebakes | Aug 11, 2014 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Recipes, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
Summer is my favorite season I love the hot sunshiny days and the warm nights, and although I am crazy busy with weddings and bridal showers, I feel relaxed. The minute back school starts I seem to have a sense of rushing, almost as if the days are to short. I am...
by bobbiebakes | Aug 4, 2014 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Recipes, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
I adore the little plaque cookies they are extremely versatile, and what better cake decorating technique than tone on tone brush embroidery? The finished design is elegantly suitable for hanging (except that it is edible). The plaque cookies are show stopping gift,...
by bobbienoto | Jun 11, 2014 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Recipes, Tutorials, Uncategorized, Videos
Last week I was surfing Facebook and found a beautiful lemon tart on Tastemade’s page. The photo of the lemon pie enticed my tastebuds which was no surprise since my absolute favorite pie is lemon meringue (my husband loves my lemon meringue pie recipe too)!...
by bobbiebakes | Apr 7, 2014 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Tutorials, Uncategorized, Videos
I wanted to share a few cookies that I created this past weekend. I was hired by a neighbor from my past,(high school to be exact), who wanted some cookies for a church auction. She had seen my parrot tulips on Facebook and wanted me to design three dozen hand...
by bobbiebakes | Mar 28, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies and brownies, Tutorials, Videos
Hand painting on cookies/cakes (either covered in fondant or royal icing) are edible works of art. You can choose to paint a simple design or ornately elegant complex wedding flowers. Almost any design is stunning to look at. Like most cake decorating techniques, the...
by bobbiebakes | Mar 26, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Recipes, Tutorials, Uncategorized, Videos
While having a girl’s day out with Sydney, we noticed a cake in the window of Hyde Park Jewelers, that appeared to be inspired by Vera Wang. Her spatular ruffle dresses are beautifully breathtaking, romanic and classy; which is the perfect inspiration for cake...
by | Mar 12, 2014 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Tutorials
Easter is just around the corner and every year I create special Easter baskets filled with custom cookies,candies, and other treats. I found this large egg cookie cutter and visioned an exquisite frilled sugar cookie with a light ombre effect. After applying the...
by bobbiebakes | Feb 19, 2014 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
I thought it might be fun to learn a new method of brush embroidery..Victorian brush embroidery. Although the name sounds fancy the technique to create victorian brush embroidery is quite simple. Victorian brush embroidery generally is applied with two colours of...
by | Feb 1, 2014 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
Tomorrow at 4:30 kick off will begin for Super Bowl XLVIII. Payton Manning and Russell Wilson will be face to face in New Jersey at the MetLife stadium (freezing there tush off). Unlike Super Bowl I, where The Green Bay Packer’s quarterback Bart Starr and The...
by | Dec 30, 2013 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
Nicolas Jebran’s designs are cutting edge yet classic; his dresses flow with movement. Sydney and I were looking at his Winter 2014 collection when we both were drawn to the same dress, although neither Sydney nor I can purchase the dress for New Year’s...
by | Dec 8, 2013 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
I was looking at cookie cutters when I am across Blossom’sWedding Cake – Roses Cookie Cutter & Stamp Set. I placed an order and waited for my cutters (plus a few other fun cake decorating materials). I baked a batch of the wedding cake cookies the...
by | Nov 24, 2013 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Gluten Free, Home, Products, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
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...
by bobbiebakes | Nov 19, 2013 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
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...
by | Nov 13, 2013 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Gluten Free, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
I was asked by a friend if I could bake him a batch of gluten free sugar cookies. I have baked several pastries in the past that were gluten free (mostly bread and pastries), but I realized I had never tried to bake a batch of gluten free sugar cookies. I realized...
by | Nov 11, 2013 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
I wanted to compose a unique Christmas video tutorial to start the holidays off with you. Sugar cookie christmas cards seemed to “fit the bill.” Who wouldn’t want a sugar cookie card? It is edible, personally designed for a special person in your...
by | Nov 7, 2013 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
With Autumn fully here I decided it might be fun to create some sugar cookie oak leaves with autumn colours. An airbrush is a wonderful method for cake decorating fondant or royal icing. With the airbrush method you have the option to layer a multitude of colors and...
by | Nov 6, 2013 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Tutorials, Videos
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...
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...
