• Last updated 7/31/12 by sugarkissed_net

Posted by sugarkissed_net How to make easy tulip sugar cookies with royal icing List of Materials Your favorite sugar cookie recipe Tulip cookie cutter Green and pink royal icing Icing bags or bottles, couplers, and tips (I recommend a #2 tip) Sparkling sugar in green and pink (optional) A clean (used for baking only) small paint brush (optional) A food coloring marker in any color (optional) To start, use a food coloring marker to draw the stem of the flower (or just wing it!). Outline the tulip’s stem with green royal icing using a #2 tip and... read more

• Last updated 7/25/12 by Detty

Posted by Detty According to Wikipedia: "A piñata (Spanish pronunciation: [pi??ata]) is a container made often of papier-mâché, pottery, or cloth and decorated, filled with toys and/or candy, and then broken as part of a ceremony or celebration. Piñatas are most commonly associated with Mexico, but its origins are considered to be in China. The idea of breaking a container filled with treats came to Europe in the 14th century, where the name, from the Italian “pignatta” was introduced."   Why not translate the aboves to cookies ? List of Materials Sugar... read more

• Last updated 7/21/12 by al-tomczak

Posted by al-tomczak First thing I’m very sorry for my English, but I’m Polish who live in Italy. In a last few days I saw on this web site a lot of different cake insert techniques which I liked very much. So I invented my own! It is very easy and simple, you don’t have to use any complicated tools. I used this techniques when I made a cake for my husband for our 4th wedding anniversary, and he was very moved when he saw surprise inside the cake. I hope you will like it as much as I do! List of Materials •Rectangular pan for chocolate mud cake. I used 8 ¾’ x 12’ (21... read more

• Last updated 7/19/12 by sweetopia

Posted by sweetopia These zesty sugar cookies can easily decorated with royal icing. They're fun and easy to make! List of Materials NFSC - No Fail Sugar Cookie Recipe (add citrus juice & zest of your choice) Royal Icing (Antonia 74's Recipe) Round Cookie Cutters (size your choice) Piping Bags Couplers Piping Tips (#3) Yellow, Orange & Green Gel Coloring (colors your choice) Toothpick - Outlining – Using a #3 piping tip, outline your cookie with royal icing. I like using a larger piping tip to outline and fill in larger areas, as the 'flooding' goes... read more

• Last updated 7/18/12 by Alex328

Posted by Alex328 This is a simple tutorial on how to make put prints on traditional chocolate giant cupcake "wrapper" shell without using the giant cupcake pan/mold. List of Materials clean recycled dome container / lid paint brush candy melts or white chocolate melting wafers candy food colors toothpicks Prepare your materials. For the mold, you could actually use any size or any design container that you find. For this project, the recycled containner was a mini donut container bought from the grocery store. This fits a 6" cake perfectly. Melt... read more

• Last updated 7/18/12 by jayhawkcake

Posted by jayhawkcake In this tutorial you will learn how to cover and entire cake in an edible image. This is especially handy for detailed patterns that aren't easy to recreate with fondant for buttercream. For example, the ACU pattern that is on my husbands Army uniform. It is very detailed and super hard to recreate. List of Materials frosted cake that has been smoothed, edible images, scissors, pan that you baked the cake in, cloth tape measurer Take your cake that has been frosted and smoothed. Measure the height of your cake. This measurement... read more

• Last updated 7/17/12 by serveseight

Posted by serveseight So super easy, and the best time saving trick I ever discovered! Tear enough baking paper to cover the bottom of your round tin. 1. Fold it in half into a rectangle. 2. Fold in half again into a square. 3, 4, & 5. Fold the top right corner down to make a triangle, repeat this step again two more times (you will have folded three times) 6. Find the centre of your tin with the point of your triangle, cut to size at the edge of the tin. 7. Et Voila! The perfect sized circle of baking paper to line your cake... read more

• Last updated 7/16/12 by dipmeinchocolate

Posted by dipmeinchocolate Have you made cake pops? Were they a complete disaster? Yeah, me too. Seriously. We've all burned the heck out of our chocolate, lost a cake ball off the stick, had our perfectly good cake pops crack 5 minutes later and begin leaking weird stuff out everywhere! It's sooo frustrating! Don't worry though, it gets better. But let me save you some time and sugar with a few tips...! List of Materials 1 cake mix (+ required ingredients) 2 (16 oz.) packages CandiQuik Candy Coating (vanilla or chocolate) 8 oz. cake frosting lollipop... read more

• Last updated 8/3/09 by Jackie

Posted by Jackie   This cake style is often referred to as "mad hatter cake", topsy-turvy cake, whimsical cake, titled cake, or slanted cakes. This technique is a fun optical illusion that makes your cake appear topsy-turvy. Cake By: tonedna I finally got an interesting project to demo and a working camera all at the same time. People ask me all the time how I do the topsy-turvy Mad Hatter ish cakes on my site and how on earth I get them to the customer site without a disaster. I know there are lots of folks out there doing lopsided cakes and using... read more

• Last updated 7/12/04 by Jackie

Posted by Jackie This step-bystep-cake article will show you how to make a looped bow from fondant or gumpaste. This technique is great for creating a present, or gift shaped cake. Green with Pink Bow Cake By: gourmetcakes ITEMS NEEDED: Fondant or Gumpaste Rolling Pin or Pasta machine Pizza cutter or Knife Large Dowel (1 in thick) Soft candy melts or Royal Icing Bowl Post questions or comments about this article here 1. Use a piece of gumpaste, fondant, or candy clay about the size of a tennis ball 2. I first will roll about 1/2 of... read more