Posts by DeniseNH

Ok, since I always see things differently, here's what I think the artist did. She marked each area with a cutter - very lightly then dusted the inside of that mark with satin dust - making it look painted or covered in "something" then...

Anyone else notice that since Duncan Hines created their new and more expensive Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix, their Dark Chocolate Fudge cake mix now looks like a much lighter Devils Food mix? I think they're trying to force us to buy the...

What works beautifully for me is to take a length of aluminum foil and (wearing oven gloves) seal the top of the cake pan in foil so that as it cools, any evaporation goes right back into the cake and not into your kitchen. Then once...

That's a real puzzle because you could mix vanilla instant pudding with heavy cream for an extra yummy vanilla filling but it needs to be refrigerated. There are some fillings in sleeves you can buy that have a vanilla flavor (Bavarian...

I made it by mistake yesterday. Started out with pale orange, a dot of blue and some leaf green and some Wilton Whitener. Go easy with each color until you get what you want.

For a small puddle of mud. Why not use chocolate pudding. Would stay soft and gooshy, like mud.

Most homemade (from scratch) recipes seem to be heavy. What I do is mix a homemade recipe with a box mix of the same flavor. The box mix seems to lighten it up a bit and they always rise beautifully. When a cake sinks in the middle I...

Might be that you layered two cakes together with the lemon curd and raspberry jam. A lethal combination. Just like a skating rink.

I was warned against a Cake Cricut towards a Silhouette for Cakes. There's a HUGE learning curve and so much reading, but once you get the hang of it you can make really neat cuts. You need the proper recipe for gumpaste (one that you...

Just add a dot of black gel color to royal icing then make your monograms ahead of time and let them dry. If that doesn't give you the color you need or if they dry a lighter gray then take a nice big fluffy makeup brush (clean and new)...