Books. Cakes. Design.
It’s SO fun to make a book for a fellow artist! And this gal, Anya, is also a fellow baker! She makes the most amazing creations out of fondant. Seriously. Her figurines are over-the-top incredible. Look at this adorable girl (complete with cell phone!) that she made:
CUTE CUTE CUTE!
So…what does every cake baker/creator need? A [...]
Hope you are all enjoying your family, friends, and some FOOD today!!
Check out these Thanksgiving cuties I found on a fellow baker’s website! Learn how to make them from Bakerella. She’s a VERY talented girl…I love how her baked goods are just as much art as they are food!
Happy Turkey Day!
In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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If you like chocolate and mint together, you would LOVE these cupcakes! Layer upon layer of chocolate, then mint, then chocolate, then mint. Mmm.
I was so excited to have a chance to use the cupcake papers my [...]
Sweet Jacelyn’s birthday party was going to be at a pony farm, so the cake was a horse, of course, of course.
I started with an chocolate 11 x 15 sheet cake.
I made a horse template on the computer and sized it to fit the sheet cake.
Since the cake had been frozen overnight, it [...]
I was asked to make a baby shower cake for Lyndi and her soon-to-arrive son, Dax.
The invitation was a mint green with brown and white polka dots, so I used that design as the inspiration for my cake. I made a two-tier cake (top tier vanilla, bottom tier chocolate) with classic buttercream icing tinted pale [...]
In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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In the Kids’ Cupcakes section of the book, there is a recipe for Cookies & Cream Cupcakes. Um, YUM!
You start by adding a bunch of crushed-up Oreo cookies to the vanilla batter.
Mix it all up…
And bake until [...]
My friend Jessica was throwing a surprise 30th-birthday party for her husband’s cousin. The colors were hot pink and black, and she hired me to make the cake. She wanted something whimsical, and since I am totally against black icing (yuck), I used my beaded cake style and a spiral black and white cake platter [...]
While sorting through some old back-up CDs, I found one that had pictures of some of my first books. Here’s a sampling of what I was making about 4-5 years ago:
My friend Kelly’s first job after college was with Lenox, the fine china/dinnerware company. She was a product and pattern designer, and one piece she [...]
In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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One of the most mouth-watering photos in the cookbook is from the “Gourmet Cupcakes” chapter: Tarte Tatin Cupcakes with Caramelized Apples (Lord, have mercy!)
And having a fridge full of fresh apples from Nebraska (thanks, Grandpa!), this proved [...]
The last time my mom and sister Allison came to town, we decided it would be fun to do some playing-around with my “Hello, Cupcake!” book. Allison picked the pattern and I set about icing the base coat on the cupcakes.
She chose butterflies! Using the template (not shown), we traced antennae and wings using dark [...]