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White Chocolate Chunk Blood Orange Pound Cake
While grabbing a few ingredients the other day at the food market I noticed out of the corner of my eye ...Blood oranges. I was elated I couldn't believe my luck, organic blood oranges in September imported from Italy. Generally blood oranges are not available until...
Wicked Red Fondant High Heel Shoe
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...
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...