I have a sweet friend…her name is Summer. She is a little ray of sunshine like her name! – and she’s my cake buddy. We’ve only made cakes together a couple of times, but we spend LOTS of time sharing ideas, tips, techniques, dreams and future plans together. She is SO incredibly smart in all […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Templates
My sweet friend Deborah sent me this link to a wonderful Australian cake maker – Not Quite Nigella. There was a fabulous article on how to get smooth sides on their cakes. I just have to say the Australians have the most beautiful, flawless cakes I have ever seen!!! Like Planet Cake…Seriously!??? Are they for […]
Ganache, Photo Tutorials, Structure/Building
Happy Birthday Kelly!! One of my sweet friends is having her birthday today!!! So, I made her her very own cupcake!! I took it over and spent a few hours hang’n out with her and her 9 month old identical twin boys this morning! WOW, are they ever CUTE!! I keep telling my baby girl […]
Celebration Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
If you haven’t visited Half Baked – The Cake Blog, you should!! It’s a beautiful website full of wonderful inspiration, amazing cake pictures, fun and tasty treats and more!!! I got an email from Carrie and she had seen my cake over at Style Me Pretty and asked if they could feature my cake! I […]
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Happy 4th of July!! What an awesome country we live in!! I’m soo thankful for our country (despite the yuckiness that goes on) for we are truly blessed to be free!! I am so thankful for the men and women who have fought for the freedom I enjoy!! A friend of mine asked if I’d […]
Holiday Cakes, Photo Tutorials
This was a first for me…a musical instrument!! A violin – complete with the scroll, the bridge and hand painted curly-ques on the body. What a fun, and challenging cake! My daughter and I have had the privilege of knowing an incredible woman we call Mrs. A this past year! – she was my daughter’s […]
Birthday Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
I am so excited this morning! If you haven’t heard of Style Me Pretty, you need to go check them out! It’s an amazingly beautiful wedding blog that has the most breath taking pictures, ideas and upcoming trends for weddings! A few months back, I had the privilege to be apart of a wedding shoot […]
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I am so excited to share with you all a few new recipes I tried out over the last few days!!! They are amazingly good!!!!! I found them all on www.food.com! – it’s a fabulous site for recipe searches because people are great about reviewing the recipes on there. You can search for whatever your […]
Cake, Cupcakes
Happy Birthday JENNY-JEN!!!! My sweet sweet friend turned 40 today! What’s crazy is that I’m getting closer to 40 and realizing that it’s such a young number!!!!!!! We’ve only lived half our lives…and most of it was spent messing up!!!! – and learning what NOT to do! Now it feels like we’re figuring things out […]
Birthday Cakes, Sculptured Cakes
I just saw this and HAD to share with all of you! I’m TOTALLY making one of these…I can’t wait! I might even do it today! – I’m SO excited! I have the wilton one like this but it doesn’t cut as clean of a line…it’s a bit “dull” because the plastic is not very […]
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