Step by step homemade baking recipes
In this video, I show you how to make an Easter Egg fondant topper for a cupcake! It is a quick and easy way to add some seasonal excitement to your Easter parties or family dinners.
You will need:
2-4 different colours of fondant
fondant roller
gum glue or water
pastry cutter or knife
What will you be doing to celebrate Easter?
Valentine’s day has come and gone . . . once again! And I next year, I’m taking the day off so I can focus on our orders and clients! We are so FORTUNATE to have had so many people want to include us in their need to send their loved one something SWEET! My Fortunate Friday post is dedicated to all of you <3
I have posted some of our cupcake ideas and corresponding YouTube videos but here is a run down on them if you want to review . . . Heart Shaped Valentine’s Day Cake, Heart Shaped Cupcakes for Valentine’s Day Video, How to Make Valentine’s Day Cupcakes- Video.
We have spent the last year building an amazing bridal/wedding cake portfolio! We have done some amazing cakes (if I do say so myself) and I am extremely proud to show you the wedding cakes that we took with us to the St Eugene Bridal Show at the end of January. The St Eugene show is now the premier spot to showcase your wedding goods, and boy were we ever ready for the brides!
The following is an overview of the cakes that we took with us to the Bridal show . . . can you guess which one I made, and which ones Paul made??
Love Birds:
This cake is a topsy turvy cake, with a completely edible love bird topper! Paul carved and sculpted these two cute love birds out of fondant and gum paste. The topsy turvy is covered in fondant, wrapped the the ribbon and twigs were applied to give it a sparsely wooded feel to it.
I haven’t done a Fortunate Friday post in quite some time and since I’m fully immersed up to my elbows in the cake world lately, I thought I would make my Fortunate Friday about all of the CAKE DECORATING TOOLS that I find helpful. . . and of course, we can’t forget the cupcakes!
Before I jump into the Cake Decorating Tools that make caking easier, I HAVE to thank Paul for the early Christmas present! You might have noticed the blog got a makeover! Isn’t it pretty!? I love it . . . thanks P! I’m so fortunate to have him <3
5 Cake Decorating Tools
1. Edible Ink Printer– This has been a tool that has come in extremely helpful. It allows the cake decorator to print pretty much ANY image onto edible paper, and place it on top of a cake or even cupcakes!
We currently use a Cannon MP640 to do our edible prints. What’s important to remember is to make sure that you do not ever put non-edible ink into the machine. The first ink that runs through the machine, must be edible ink.
Edible Inks are a specially formulated food coloring mixture for printing onto icing sheets. The colors are matched with regular inks, then modified to hold their coloring better on the icing sheets.
We get our edible ink and edible paper from Icing Images.
We have a step by step guide for you to watch on YouTube as well. Check it out here.
We are on a roll with the Christmas decorating videos these days! It’s so much fun! The ideas are endless, there are unending Pins to Pin on Pinterest and it’s just a jolly good time around this holiday. The thing that gets me every year, and I’m guilty of it, is that WHY IS IT SO STRESSFUL?
Every year, I approach the season with excitement, but as soon as December is two weeks old, I’m freaking out and a ball of stress!! There is always so much to do at home- baking, decorations, finding the perfect tree, wrapping all the presents. At school- Christmas Concert practice, Secret Santa, decorations, Gingerbread Houses, and now, add a business to the mix- cupcakes, cakes, cookies, platters!
There are always so many gifts to buy, despite the fact that every year I say “I’m going to give the gift of time with my family” as if I’m gift enough . . . hahahaha! I’d like to think that I am 😉 but I’m sure they would think differently. I know that I must be on crack when I have those thoughts as they just delay my inevitable freak out, as I run around shopping to buy things I swore I wasn’t going to.
I’m going to be honest with you right now and tell you that if there is an easy way, or a short cut, or a lazy way to do something, I will find it. Just ask Paul about my housekeeping “abilities”.
Sweep? Isn’t that what a vacuum is for? Dishes? Dishwasher! Bleach? I don’t want to wreck my clothes!
When we first bought the Cricut Cake, I thought, “Awesome! No more hard work!” Boy, was I ever wrong.
Paul and I have filmed a tutorial on how to use a Cricut Cake, but before you go off an watch it, I have a little bit of stuff to tell you . . . let the honesty continue!
Background Information:
The Cricut Cake™ Personal Electronic Cutter is specifically designed for decorating cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and confections in no time at all. Just choose a shape, a size, and press “cut”. Decorating like a professional has never been faster or easier. (source) The idea of the Cricut Cake is brilliant. How awesome would it be to have a machine that would cut out whatever shape you wanted, in a matter of seconds? Cake decorators everywhere would be lining up to buy them by the truckload!
The Cricut Cake is different from the Cricut that scrapbookers use with paper, as all of the parts of the machine that come in contact with food are made from food safe plastic or stainless steel. Cricut also added silicone covers to protect the machine and to make clean up easier. Also, according to the Cricut website, the machine was specially designed for cutting food materials.
I am not one to run around wielding knives. I don’t particularly have an attachment to knives. I like them to slice bread, but that’s where my devotion to knives basically stops. Why am I tell you this? Because a viewer of our YouTube videos requested that I show them how to make a fondant knife . . . I’m assuming for Halloween . . . because if it’s not . . . then that’s just weird.
It’s pretty simple actually, so grab your fondant, follow along, and run around wielding knives.
Please, please, please, help me out and place an order for a GIRLY cake! My estrogen is begging you!
German Tiger Tank. Uggh. Do I need to say more? I made this cake EXTRA difficult for us, as we were working with a new brand of fondant. I figured, that fondant, is fondant, is fondant, but that was a ROOKIE mistake! This specific brand of fondant is really soft, and was quite difficult to work with. Paul has spent hours researching how to make fondant harder, and we think we have found the secret! I will post a fondant comparison and fondant hardener review soon!
XBox Remote Cake
This cake was done specially for a local birthday boy! His order was very specific, and knew exactly what colours, shape and type of cake he wanted! He even had to poll his friends, to find out which flavour his friends would enjoy most during the celebration! How cute, eh? He (and his friends) ended up choosing Cookie Dough (GREAT choice boys!), and from there, the specifics were up to us!
I started by baking two 8″ round cakes to form the general shape for the remote. Then Paul, and the carving knife, took over (while I went to Tier Cake Class) and he shaped the cake into what you see. He then diligently started working on the pieces of the controller, while I started working on the fondant cover.
We have been having fondant issues of late, and this time, the red fondant was quite dry! I worked with this problem by putting it in the microwave for 10 seconds (seriously!) and added vegetable shortening for more moisture. Working with the red in this way was much better, but while making the stripes to lay over the black, they dried much quicker, and you can see some of the breakage along the sides (if you look carefully . . . so don’t).
To make the tiger stripe overlay, roll out your base colour, cut out your stripes and your accent colour, and lay stripes over top of your base. Use your rolling pin to blend the two colours, and viola! You get one solid sheet of striped fondant!
