Posts by heartsnsync

In my area in central North Carolina for wedding cakes most legal home bakeries and commercial bakeries alike charge @ $3.50 - 4.00 per serving for butter cream and $4.50 - 5.00 per serving for fondant. This is for simple decor and...

I made gum paste hydrangeas for my daughter's wedding cake back in January. As research I bought some hydrangeas and printed out pictures and studied them as well as looking at my neighbor's plants when they were blooming last year. ...

The banana slices is what is likely to give you problems because the banana filling part can be made in ways that are shelf stable. Banana can get really slimy once sliced even when in something in the refrigerator not to even mention...

Congratulations! How exciting that must be for you. Your cake was adorable and deserves the accolades.

I was watching a cake show some time back where they made a string of pearls. What they did was use the fondant/gum paste 50/50 mix. They created the individual pearls by cutting small circles and then rolling them up and then letting...

Congratulations! I am still waiting on my Dept. of Agr. inspection but hopefully it will be any day now. Hopefully soon I will be celebrating like you! I hope your business does very well. Good luck!

There is a tip #234 that is a bit larger than #233 that helps cover large areas faster. HTH

It is hard to tell from the photograph but is it possible that what you are seeing is that they used floral tape on the wire they used for the gum paste flowers? You can get it in a variety of greens and in brown.

In January I did my daughter's wedding cake. Because of her design there was a lot of cake left over. Matter of fact, 2/3 of her bottom tier was taken home. We left it out covered on the counter and my family (mostly my teen sons!)...

If your butter cream is a good crusting one, you can do this: Color your butter cream grey, decorate, and when it is good and crusted paint back over it with silver luster dust that has been mixed with a clear alcohol based extract or...