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Adorable Christmas Cupcakes
You won’t believe how entertaining and easy to create these adorable cupcakes. The embellishments have endless possibilities, start by sketching your cupcake on paper. I promise your creative side will take over. I had more embellishments than spiraled Christmas tree...
Christmas Cookies with Wet on Wet Piping
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 the...
Delicate Oriental String-Work
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...
Festive Scenery Piped on a Sugar Cookie
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,...
How to Sculpt Santa Claus Cupcakes
Christmas time seems to bring out my inner child. I remember waiting for Santa Claus is Coming To Town to air every year (this was prior to VHS and DVDs). I could not wait to see Fred Astaire (he happens to be in another favorite Christmas movie, Holiday Inn) narrate...
Winter Wonderland Christmas Cake
I normally wait until after Thanksgiving to start Christmas decorating, however royal icing decorations may be stored in an airtight container indefinitely. I wanted to give you time to create your royal icing trees. The cake (I chose a Madeira cake) is covered with a...
Bas Relief Cameo Cookie Art Lesson 🍁🌰🌹
Bas-relief is a form of 3-dimensional modeling in which less than half of the true depth of the object projects from the background. It is widely used as a surface decoration in pottery, woodcarving and sculpture. As with several cookie art methods. Bas relief...
Adorable Bewitched Inspired Sugar Cookie
This Halloween I have created a "Bewitched" inspired sugar cookie. I have been a fan of Elizabeth Montgomery since I was quite young. Bewitched aired in 1964, prior to my birth, however WGN Chicago showed reruns every afternoon. I would arrive home from school...
Tufted Billow Weave Cookies
A several years ago two special people in my life were diagnosed with cancer, the news every woman dreads hearing. One of my friends is consider cancer free; the other friend lost her battle to cancer. Both women were/are strong, loving, and optimistic women, who...
Dazzling Sugar Halloween Critters
I have to admit I am a member of the group of people whom go all out for Halloween. I entertain costume parties, decorate both the outside and inside of my home. What would a Halloween party be without fun treats (I don't want to find out)? I try and create different...
Heirloom Sugar Rose
Roses are generally referred to as the “Queen of the Flowers,” they have been enjoyed for thousands of years. Cultivating of roses dates back to Greek and Roman times, and many varieties are descendants from ancient garden plants in China, Persia or Turkey. Roses are...
Too Cute Buttercream Halloween Cupcakes
It is almost that time of year when kids (young and old) dress-up and celebrate Halloween. Most of us probably have either a Halloween party to host or are invited to one, and once you have that perfect costume in mind it is time to figure out how to bring to life....