Cake Decorating
7 Things I Wish I’d Known When I first Started Baking and Decorating Cake
Cake, Cake Decorating, cake decorating, tips and tricksLearning how to bake and decorate cake is tricky. Here are seven things that I wish I had known when I first started decorating cake! This post may contain affiliate links which help keep me in flour and sugar. Thank you for your suppo...
Cake Decorating Basics: How To Color Fondant
Cake Decorating, easy, fondant, how to, tutorialLearn how to color fondant with this step-by-step photo tutorial. Perfect for all your cake and cupcake decorating projects. You can buy fondant in many different ways: large tubs, small packages, pure white, colored, you can make your o...
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Chèvre Caramel Sauce Drip
Cake, Cake Decorating, cake, caramel, creamcheese buttercreamMoist, from-scratch spiced carrot cake iced with tangy cream cheese frosting flecked with vanilla beans and topped with a chèvre caramel sauce drip. Carrot cake has always been a little bit tricky for me. After making a couple of failed...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Buttercream
Cake, Cake Decorating, Cupcakes, Frostings & Fillings, buttercream, chocolate buttercream, peanut butterCreamy chocolate peanut butter buttercream. Easy decadence for your brownies or chocolate cake....
Easy Ghost Mini Cupcakes
Cake Decorating, Cupcakes, cupcakes, easy, HalloweenAdorable ghost mini cupcakes made with chocolate chips are the easiest little Halloween treat! A really fun treat to make with the kids or just for yourself! Ok, these are basically the easiest Halloween treat I have ever made. The trick...
Football Cupcake Toppers
Cake Decorating, Cupcakes, cupcake toppers, decorating technique, football, royal icingWhat better way to celebrate your favorite team during football season than with hand piped royal icing football cupcake toppers? I made these football toppers for my nephew’s birthday party the exact same way I made these unicorn cupcak...
How to Cover A Cake Board With Fondant
Cake, Cake Decorating, fondant, tutorialThis post contains affiliate links that help keep me in butter. Thanks for your support! Today, we are going to talk about cake boards. What are they? They are the board that goes underneath your cake so you can transport it around...
How to fill a piping bag
Cake Decorating, buttercream, tutorialWhen I first started decorating cakes and cupcakes, I used to get extremely frustrated filling my piping bag. I would hold the empty bag in one hand and try and scoop frosting in with the other. I somehow would manage to get frosting...
How To Fix An Ugly Cake
Cake, Cake Decorating, tutorialI wish I could tell you that I made this ugly cake on purpose just for this tutorial, but nope, she came out of the pan in all her ugly glory unintentionally. It was so frustrating when my cakes would turn out uneven. I cursed my oven,...
How To Freeze Leftover Frosting
Baking Basics, Cake Decorating, frostingFor some reason, it took me far to long to realize that you can freeze your leftover frosting. I would bake cakes and cupcakes and I would find myself frustrated with having a dab of this kind of frosting or a bit of that kind of frosti...
How To Make A (Barbie) Doll Cake Without A Special Pan
Cake, Cake DecoratingLearn how to make a Barbie doll cake with a few piping tips, a doll, and an oven safe bowl. No special fancy pan required! When I was a little girl, it was a BIG DEAL to get a Barbie cake-you know where her dress was made of cake and the...
How to make a tiered cake while working full-time.
Cake, Cake Decorating, buttercream, cake, cake decorating, cake decorating basics, how toMaking a tiered cake while working full time without losing your mind is quite a feat. In this article I’ll give you some of my best tips to help keep you sane and produce a gorgeous cake for those you love. I’m not sure when big beauti...
How To Make American Buttercream
Baking Basics, Cake, Cake Decorating, Frostings & FillingsLearn how to make American buttercream. It’s easy, only requires 4 ingredients and about 10 minutes of time. Perfect for cakes, cupcakes, and cookies! What is American Buttercream? American buttercream is a style of buttercream that simp...
How to Make An M&M Anti-gravity Cake
Cake, Cake DecoratingLearn how to make an M&M anti-gravity cake using a straw. One of the easiest cake decorating techniques out there! I have seen these “anti-gravity” cakes all over on Pinterest and I have to admit, I found them quite intimidating. I mean,...
How To Make Buttercream Roses on a Mini Cupcake
Cake, Cake Decorating, CupcakesLearn to how to make buttercream roses directly onto a mini cupcake. It’s easier than you’d think to make your own buttercream roses! When I was a kid, on occasion, my mom would buy a cake from the lady down the road who decorated cakes....