Posts by sixbittersweets

This can be affected by a number of factors, over OR under-baking, not filling the cups high enough, a problematic brand of baking cups, and letting the cupcakes cool in the pan too long and thus letting the steam produced loosen the...

Agree with others that it really depends on your recipe and oven.  I bake at just under 350 degrees F for 10-13 minutes.  I always check 10 minutes in just in case.  Because they're so small, it's really easy to overbake...

It took me 7 or so consecutive tries to find my personal ideal red velvet recipe and I shared it here: http://www.6bittersweets.com/2011/10/devilishly-delicious-best-red-velvet.html  Obviously the red frosting and devil...

I agree that it's pieced together from petals.  I feel like it might even work to use scalloped circle cutters, then cut the resulting circular gumpaste in half before ruffling it up and attaching to the cake.  Good luck!

I agree with ellavanilla.  That is definitely frosting and not fondant/gumpaste although the tutorial linked is pretty :).

Here's a tutorial except you probably only need 1 or 2 stripes in the big for the effect in the photo =).  http://ginadewitt.blogspot.com/2012/12/striped-icing-technique.html

Thanks to both of you!  I ended up trying the wraparound and gather at top technique but I ended up barely being up to hold up the huge piece of fondant and would've had to start over rolling it out if my boyfriend didn't come to...

Thanks for responding!  It's going to hopefully be an 8 x 8" in terms of diameter and height.  Do you think I should do that normally?  I'm still pretty new at working with fondant and am worried it'll dry up and/or...

Hi there!   I'm making my first double-barrel fondant cake this weekend and was wondering if anyone knows of a video demonstrating the method of covering double barrel cakes that involves wrapping the fondant around the sides,...

Wow thanks so much, Jenniffer!  I just saw this -- I have no idea why I didn't get an email notification at the time you posted.  That is very helpful and you're one of my biggest cake heroes!  I'll be doing some other...