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 18, 2013 | Home, Spray-Tutorials, Tutorials
Recently I had member question “why you are giving such precious information for free.” She was referring to: How to Create a Gumpaste Life-Like Rose: From Bud to Fully Open Series. The answer is quite simple I love my craft and want to share what I have...
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 | 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 bobbiebakes | Oct 25, 2013 | Cakes-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
This the third series Learn How to Create a Gumpaste Life-Like Rose. In the first two series we completed a rose bud and a partially open rose (the transition phase).On the last video we had taken the rose buds to transitioning from a closed bud to showing their...
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 | Oct 16, 2013 | Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Tutorials, Videos
After spending the day at the arboretum picking out the perfect pumpkins and looking at the golden sunflowers I decided to bake up a batch of sugar cookies and paint them with sunflowers and sunflower leaves. Lately, my attention has turned toward edible painting on...
by | Oct 10, 2013 | Cookies-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
Witches, bats, ghosts, and skulls seem to be the theme everywhere, especially on cookies, cakes, and cupcakes during the month of October (due to Halloween). Although they are scary and fun to recreate into a treat, I wanted to design a terrifying symbol I have not...
by | Sep 25, 2013 | Cakes, Cakes-Tutorials, Tutorials
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...
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 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 | 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...
by | Jan 23, 2013 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Candies, Cupcakes-Tutorials, photography, Tutorials
Sydney started noticing personalized fortune cookies and thought it might be fun if we created fondant fortune cookies with a gumpaste personalized message. I thought it would be perfect to add cherry blossoms gumpaste flowers with cherry blossom flavored cupcakes....
by bobbiebakes | Dec 26, 2012 | Cake Decorating, Cakes, Family Hour, Gluten Free, Inspirational, Tutorials
Poinsettias have become a staple during the holiday season, the plant is sold every year, and most homes have a few. It has become a family tradition to design a special cake that represents the season, last year we created a Buche de Nöel (Yule Log), I suggested we...
by | Jul 11, 2012 | Candies, Cookies and brownies, Tutorials
I seem to find myself in a more relaxed state during the long warm summer months. Sydney and I find time to lay in the sun and catch up on our lives. Although we are blessed to work together with an “occasional” lunch, Sydney’s life is busy with...
by | Jun 27, 2012 | Cakes, Home, Tutorials
Cakes come in all sizes and designs, some are elegant for a christening, engagement, or wedding. Some are wacky for birthday parties or celebrations. Others are designed to look like flowers in a vase; I could go on and on, but that might bore you. Sydney and I...
