Learn 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 own, whatever strikes your fancy. I typically will buy or make my fondant white and color it for whatever project I am working on. Particularly … Read More
How to Cover A Cake Board With Fondant
This 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. They come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colors. A cake board can be made from cardboard, wood, … Read More
How to make Popcorn on the Stove top
Step-by-step tutorial about how to make popcorn on the stove rather than in the microwave. Cheaper than buying microwave popcorn! When I was growing up, almost every time we came to visit, my grandpa would pop up a whole boatload of popcorn for a snack. We loved it because it was microwave popcorn with a ton of butter and salt, … Read More
How To Fix An Ugly Cake
I 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, endlessly researched bake even strips (because of course a gadget will all my … Read More
How to De-Pit an Avocado
I learned this handy-dandy trick somewhere along the path and it has made getting the pit out of the avocado so much easier. Split avocado lengthwise and pull apart. With a sharp knife, confidently thwack the pit right in the middle. (I say confidently because if you half ass your thwack, it won’t work) Lift up on the knife and … Read More
Sunflower Oreo Cupcakes
Even though as I sit here writing this post there is snow on the ground, we are past the first day of spring. And spring means…flowers! My aunt posted a picture of these cute cupcakes on my facebook page awhile ago and I thought this weekend would be the perfect time to try them. I believe the picture that she … Read More
How to Pipe Basketweave
Being so close to Easter, I thought now would be a good time to have a little tutorial on how to pipe basketweave. It is a fairly easy decorating technique that visually packs a lot of punch. First, you want to start off with a basketweave tip 🙂 I use mostly Wilton tips and so the Wilton basketweave tip is tip number … Read More
How to fill a piping bag
When 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 all over the outside of the bag and would often have trouble scooping the icing out of … Read More
How To Make Fondant Strawberries
These strawberry patch cupcakes were inspired by Martha Stewart from her Cupcakes book. She recommends using marzipan, however, I had some red and green fondant lying around so that is what I used. How to make fondant strawberries: For a dozen cupcakes, I made about 20 strawberries. I found that the cupcakes looked the nicest when there was some … Read More
