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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...
Fondant Linen Sugar Cookie Dress Tutorial
A fashionable 3-D fabric fondant sugar cookie dress!
Sugar Paste Designer Stiletto Platform Shoe Fun
Sydney flew home this paste weekend to help teach a platform shoe class on Friday and demo how to create a sugar paste/ fondant shoe. We hadn't had the opportunity to work together since spring break; it was wonderful to create the shoes with her. I had already...
Haute-Couture Spring/Summer 2013 Cake Inspiration
Exciting and eloquent fashions from Stephane Rolland’s Spring/Summer Haute Couture Collection during Paris Fashion Spring Week, 2013-14. The collection is immediately recognizable as Stephane Rolland designs. The angular shapes, strong emphasis on curves, and floral...
Sugar Paste Full Blown Rose Spray
Sydney has been asking me if we could create a sugarpaste full blown rose spray for a cake for sometime now. I figured with Roses being June's flower now would be perfect. I based the roses for this cake after the Glowing Peace Rose, named after its grandparent Peace,...
How to Create Sugar Paste Tuberoses
About two weeks past, I posted a tutorial on how to create an open sugar paste Peony, since then I have had serval requests asking how to create the Tuberose in the peony spray. I chose Tuberoses for their dainty appearance, and the Tuberose is a flower that is both...
How to Create Sugar Paste Pansy
Pansies are vibrant, breathe taking, fragrant, an edible bloom and the flower most people take for granite. The pansy is linked forever to the viola, its ancestor, violas includes both pansies and violets, violets most loved for their perkiness and the their pretty...
Lemon Poppy Seed Bundt Cakes, Great for Breakfast
My niece, Grace, graduated this past May and we hosted a graduation brunch in her honor for our family. She was going to be celebrating with friends that evening; brunch was perfect for the family party. Sydney and I wanted to serve pastries, however a cake or...