Books. Cakes. Design.
I found the coolest aquamarine book-binding paper and I wanted to make a hard-bound journal with it. I also wanted to include a leather bookmark and burnt copper accents. Here’s the result:
Before pasting the boards to the cover paper, I used an X-Acto knife to cut grooves in the davy board, forming ridges. I centered [...]
I was asked to make an Xbox controller Groom’s cake for my friend Mikie’s wedding reception. Here are the steps it took to make this cake a success.
STEP ONE:
I baked two rectangular layers of milk chocolate cake, placed buttercream filling between the layers, and used a stencil I created on my computer to cut the [...]
Based on the title, you were expecting a cake post, right? Right?
Ha! Fooled you! Instead, I’m here to present a handmade journal I lovingly refer to as “Red Velvet”. A couple of years ago, I was rummaging around in my Grandma Z’s utility closet. I found not one, but TWO rolls of flocked (fuzzy) wallpaper [...]
Andrew’s youngest sister, Katie, and I both celebrate our birthdays in July. I love making cakes (obviously) and she loves ice cream, so we spent an afternoon making an ice cream cake to share with the ManyMeadows. I also made her this book as a gift.
I used a pinstriped cardstock for the cover to give [...]
I love making cakes for kids’ parties and my fiancé Andrew’s nieces and nephews especially love my creations. Niece Lily recently turned 4, and she requested that I make a pink princess cake for her party.
Here are the step-by-step directions for making a princess cake. I realize you may read some of the steps and [...]
During the month of June, I volunteered to make fancy cakes for the price of ingredients. While most people would be willing to eat a delicious, FREE cake, no one took me up on my offer more enthusiastically than Marcy. In fact, the subject line on her email read: “CAKE—IMPORTANT!!!” My favorite snippet from her [...]
Roger found me through my future MIL, Robin’s, blog. His youngest son was having a Kung Fu Panda party and they were in need of a cake. I jumped at the opportunity (I haven’t done many cakes for kids), and started scheming.
I wanted it to be quite different from the cakes you see in a [...]
Back in June, I was wanting to do some ‘cake experiments’ and try some new techniques. The hard part? What do you do with a bunch of cakes after they are finished? I decided I would need to have a reason to make them before I even started. So, I posted on my blog that [...]
In my first cake decorating class, we learned how to do ‘figure piping’. This is a technique you can use to make all sorts of 3-D things out of frosting: animals, fruits, flowers, and (shown below): clowns!
For our second class cake, we were shown how to build up icing to make figures. We all purchased [...]
Last fall I took a cake decorating course to spruce up my skills and learn some new skills. One of my favorite new piping techniques was the “basket weave”. For our final class, we created a two-layer oval cake. We then used classic white buttercream to cover the cake in basket weaving and ‘rope’ borders.
After [...]