by bobbiebakes | Jul 27, 2016 | Cookies-Tutorials, Royal icing Art, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
For this week’s tutorial, I will show you how to create a butterfly cookie by repurposed a 6-petal flower cutter! Repurposing shaped cookie cutters is a fun and economical technique. There are so many designs that this cutter can make, and I would love to see...
by bobbiebakes | Aug 27, 2015 | Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Tutorials, Videos
The new Minion movie describes how these adorable little goggled eye cuties began. I have seen minion backpacks, shirts, even bathing suits, the movie seems to coincide with back to school. A Minion lunchbox cookie seems to be the perfect project! I chose not to put a...
by bobbiebakes | Aug 19, 2015 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Tutorials, Videos
These henna cookies are inspired by my BFF, she used to spend hours painting henna designs, with a stick, on my daughter for the first days of school. The designs were awe-inspiring! Now that my daughter is starting graduate school I thought it would be the perfect...
by bobbiebakes | Aug 12, 2015 | Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
This stucco/stone technique was inspired by a vase I found in Tuscany. I have had this design in my mind for a few years now and I finally found a technique to add that weathered look I loved. I used a cupcake cutter for the flower pot (I love finding other uses for...
by bobbiebakes | May 6, 2015 | Cakes-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Spray-Tutorials, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
I have been blessed with a wonderful family, my husband and beautiful daughter. Although we are small in numbers we are mighty in strength! The past 6 months we have gone through some tough hurdles, but we, as a unit, conquered the worst! Now that we have come through...
by bobbiebakes | Jan 10, 2015 | Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
String-work is favorite go tp cookie decorating technique I love to use at 5th Avenue’s Cookie Art Academy I wanted to push the envelope not only using a cookie for the suspended string-work, but using a difficult shape. It took a few times before I was...
by bobbiebakes | Dec 29, 2014 | Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
Pressure piping with royal icing is an invaluable sugar craft technique. Once you have mastered pressure control any designs is possible from beautiful doves to 18th century figures. Pressure control is also a key to piping messages and monograms on cakes and cookies...
by bobbiebakes | Nov 28, 2014 | Cookies and brownies, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
Between cooking and baking since Monday for yesterday’s Thanksgiving, and Black Friday shopping it is nice to know you can design an elegant Christmas cookie in 9 minutes. Wet on wet piping is using the same royal icing consistency throughout the design (with...
by bobbiebakes | Nov 24, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cakes-Tutorials, Home, Recipes, Spray-Tutorials, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
A cake piped with Oriental string-work gives wow-factor. The method of beautiful Oriental string-work involves piping a series of overlapping loops around the side of a cake to make intricate woven designs. Many cake decorators will avoid making cakes piped with...
by bobbiebakes | Nov 17, 2014 | Cake Decorating, Cookies-Tutorials, Home, Sugar Art-Tutorials, Tutorials, Videos
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is placing candles in the windows of our home. I wanted to recreate the mood and excitement of the Christmas season on a sugar cookie. The cookies above are a great way to practice basic pressure piping skills, scrolls,...
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,...
