Creating Amazing Food
We had such a fantastic time at my Kid’s Baking Class – making a variety of pancake flavors. I taught the kids that with a basic recipe you can make different varieties by adding new ingredients, as long as it doesn’t compromise the base. The six pancakes we made were: Chocolate Chip Pancakes – add…
I love working with a standard recipe and making alterations to make a variety of different flavors. At my recent baking class for kids we made three different muffin recipes with one standard recipe. We made: Fresh blueberry muffins Chocolate chip muffins Chocolate-Blood Orange muffins (I have a blood orange tree!) Using this standard muffin…
Yes, made from scratch baked good are the best – BUT, there are times you need a quick fix and a mix does the job. But, I have found tweaking the mix a little gives a homemade taste. I do this with making brownies. Adding extra cocoa, using butter instead of oil, and adding chocolate…
Oh, what to do with all the left over chocolate from the holidays? Make a chocolate candy cake – of course. When I offered to make a friends 65th birthday cake I knew exactly what I wanted to do. With a lot of candy from the holidays, I incorporated it into his cake. I made…
Make a beautiful rainbow of color with this simple My Little Pony & Rainbow Dash cupcake display. With colorful Skittles, you can create this cupcake rainbow for your special event. Watch our How-To Video at You Need: Cupcakes – we used a Vanilla cake mix (adding 8 oz. sour cream to the recipe) Buttercream –…
I love this technique. It looks challenging but the secret is using a toothpick. Watch my video tutorial to see how easy it is. You can use a variety of colors for the lines or even just use one color – which I have done before and it turns out beautiful. Get cookie and icing…
I love this technique. It looks challenging but the secret is using a toothpick. Watch my video tutorial to see how easy it is. You can use a variety of colors for the lines or even just use one color – which I have done before and it turns out beautiful. Get cookie and icing…
Watch the steps to making a stacked tiered cake Things you need to make a wedding cake: Baked and cooled cakes – see Cake Recipes in Menu Frosting (enough for filling and frosting cake) Click Here for Jill’s Buttercream Filling or the frosting you are making Cake boards – the same size for tiers…
As a cookie decorator I like to work with a limited number of colors but create different designs. In designing these Valentine cookies I only used red and pink color. Yet, all the designs are diverse and yet blend well with the others. This helps make a beautiful presentation when you display all the cookies…
I love learning new techniques in cookie decorating. This is my first attempt to creating the knitted look on a cookie. Of course, I wanted to make it a winter mitten. I love the all white look of the mittens which highlights the details of the knitted mitten. I hope you try these techniques. I…
