Hi friends!! This is a question I get often…”How do you get your buttercream to be white when using real butter?!” or “How do you get your marshmallow fondant to be a bright white?” Picture by Cakes by Raewyn For buttercream, lately I’ve been telling people to add a cup of powdered sugar to their […]
Buttercream, Recipe Tutorials
Hi friends!! I found a fantastic article with beautiful pictures on how to make some amazing buttercream stripes on a buttercream finish cake!! It’s by Sweetness & Bite! Check out these adorable cakes!!! For the full tutorial, click HERE I’m going to have to start making more buttercream cakes!!!! Simple, sleek and stylish!!! LOVE!
Buttercream, Celebration Cakes, Photo Tutorials
Craftsy just launched “The Secrets to Perfect Stenciling”!!! If you’ve ever wanted to learn some wonderful secrets to make your next stenciling project much cleaner, I would highly recommend taking this class!! Alan is a very thorough teacher and gives you some great techniques for perfect stenciling!! And, I have a 25% off discount link […]
Buttercream, Discount Links for Other Classes, Video Tutorials
Happy Birthday to my sweet sweet friend Alyssa!!! You are SUCH a joy to me and I have treasured our friendship over these past years!! I pray immense blessings upon your life and the lives of your sweet girls and wonderful husband! You are such a light, have such a generous heart, love the […]
Buttercream, Celebration Cakes, Photo Tutorials
I LOVE Swiss-Meringue Buttercream! If you’ve been a fan of my blog for any amount of time, you probably know that! It’s like heaven on a spoon…well…not really because Heaven will be a million times more amazing than Swiss-Meringue Buttercream…but, it’s like heaven for my taste buds I guess! :) It’s light, creamy, buttery and […]
Buttercream, Photo Tutorials
Joshua John Russell has a great tutorial video on Craftsy that’s totally free! It’s a buttercream video where he shows how to make Swiss-meringue buttercream, torte, fill, stack a cake and more! I’m posting this video link because I was really surprised to see that his methods are pretty much exactly how I build and […]
Buttercream, Discount Links for Other Classes
Today was my daughter’s last day of 1st grade…and her teacher’s birthday! Her teacher has been incredible this year! Very in tune to the kiddos, open with the parents and especially sweet to my princess! It was a special day that called for a cake!! However, this cake almost didn’t come to be. […]
Buttercream, Photo Tutorials, Sugar Flowers, TemplatesI get a lot of emails from bakers and cake makers with lots of questions. They range from “how I do “x” technique” or “can I have your “x” recipe?” or simply sweet emails with cries for HELP! I try to get back to everyone as soon as I can, but I thought I’d post […]
Buttercream, Fondant, Ganache, Modeling Chocolate, Photo Tutorials, Recipe TutorialsIf you’d like more information on anything you see in this post and would like me to demonstrate everything you see below, take my Craftsy class! Check out THIS post for more information and pictures on all the things I cover in that class!I get a lot of emails from bakers and cake makers with […]
Buttercream, Fondant, Ganache, Modeling Chocolate, Photo Tutorials, Recipe TutorialsWell, hopefully you all can learn from my mistakes so you don’t have to waste money on being ignorant! I’ve made two blunders that have cost me money that I’ll share with you. If you’ve been around cake, you’ll probably say “DUH!” to these, but I am so new at anything culinary that I don’t […]
Buttercream, Cake, Fondant