Sugar Flowers

Flowers made from sugar!  Gum paste manipulated: rolled, cut, imprinted, shaped, ruffled, wired, painted, dusted with color.  
So much fun to make!

star gazer lilies
briar rose
sweet pea
blossom
stphanotis
ivy leaf

Sweet 16 Cake

What's baking?
Chocolate chip cake based on Rose Levy Berenbaum's Downy Yellow Cake from The Cake Bible. Chocolate filling between four cake layers. Covered in buttercream and fondant. Flower design based on party invitation made from dark modelling chocolate, fondant and gum paste.

Fun Birthday Cake!

What's baking?

Vanilla cake with chocolate filling, butter cream icing, decorated with fondant and gum paste flowers.  Ellie's favorite flowers are roses and daisies and her favorite colors are pink, purple and yellow.

Gum Paste Flowers

November Cake Decorating Classes start next week!

Classes start next week at AC Moore, Montgomeryville, PA. Come have some fun, bring a friend and get ready to bake for the holidays.

Even More from Cake Decorating Basics Class

In lesson 3 I taught shells. drop flowers, pompom flowers shaggy mums and filling and icing cupcakes.  Here's what my students made today:

Another Thank You Cake!

What's baking?

 


A cake to thank retiring committee members.  Yellow Cake recipe from The Cake Bible cookbook, filled with chocolate buttercream, covered with vanilla buttercream.  Decorated with fondant/gum paste button flowers.  Learn this fun flower in the Flowers and Cake Design class I will be teaching next month.  As always you can click on the photos for larger images and click on the links for the recipes.  Let me know if you'd like to see the text of the recipes here on my blog or if the links to websites are good.  Thanks.

Cake Wreck!

What's Baking?

A white cake with raspberry filling. 

Gum Paste Flowers

Fondant and Gum Paste class - gum paste carnations and fantasy flower.

Wilton Fondant and Gum Paste Course

Gum paste daisies

A quick cake!

What's baking?

Good luck on final exams and projects!

Birthday Cake

What's Baking?

Vanilla Sugar Cookie Cake recipe from Bakerzjoy on CakeCentral with chocolate buttercream filling and icing, royal icing flowers and fondant banner.

More Practice - More Royal Icing Flowers

Wilton Course 2, weeks 2 and 3 - RI flower practice

A few of the royal icing flowers I learned how to make on Saturday--Wilton Course 2, classes 2 and 3 combined.  Great teacher, but I need to practice, practice, practice and make a bunch for my cake final coming up on Saturday.  Would like to get that all done before I clean out the kitchen and start preparing for the Seders.  Looking forward to learning how to make a basket weave pattern in butter cream.

As usual, you can click on photos to enlarge them and comments are always welcome!  Funny thing, I started to add a few photos of finished cakes to Facebook and I got a couple of comments there!  Maybe it's easier to comment there or it's just my friends being nice!  Anyway, thanks for looking!

Wilton Course 3, Final Cake

What's Baking?

RI Flowers

Royal icing flowers from class.  Morning glory, lily, poinsettia and petunia.  Need lots of practice!  Next week the tiered cake.