Share the Ideas & Inspiration I designed this cake with the beautiful colors of candy melts. Not only did I create an array of melted candy melts, but used as a bottom border and drip. Candy melts are easier to find these days. I remember when they were only at cake decorating stores. Today you…
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Amazing Blood Orange Cupcakes and Frosting
Share the Ideas & Inspiration I have a blood orange tree in our yard. Last year it yielded hundreds of oranges, so I thought this year would be either none or maybe some. Yet, this year’s crop was double last years. I have given away more oranges than I can count. They are the most…
Chocolate Decadent Candy Drip Cake
Share the Ideas & Inspiration 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…
Winter Cable Knit Mitten Sugar Cookies
Share the Ideas & Inspiration 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…
Glossy Royal Icing for Cookie Decorating
Share the Ideas & Inspiration As a cookie decorator I want to get a beautiful look to my cookies. To do this I use a variety of cookie icing recipes. But, by far my most popular and most used recipe is this one. Why? This glossy icing dries with a nice shine which shows off…
Moist Pear Cake with Browned Butter Frosting
Share the Ideas & Inspiration For Christmas a friend brought me eight Harry & David pears. Honestly, I am not a big pear eater and knew I would not be able to eat them all before they spoiled. So, I decided to create a pear cake. I call it my “Partridge in a Pear” Tree…
Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Share the Ideas & Inspiration Want a rich, creamy and chocolate cake? This red velvet cake is moist and delicious, along with yummy cream cheese frosting. My easy frosting technique shows the beauty of this cake! You can do this! Watch my one minute how-to make and decorate: Watch the long version of making cake:…
Amazing Cinnamon Rolls
Share the Ideas & Inspiration Do you love cinnamon rolls right out of the oven? It’s the best! My simple recipe for cinnamon rolls will put you front and center to eating them right from the oven. It’s like french fries, they don’t taste good after a few minutes. I never buy a cinnamon roll…
Goin’ Bananas Muffins
Share the Ideas & Inspiration As I write this I just finished teaching a summer kids baking camp. Today we made 150 banana muffins using this small batch recipe. I had the children get into groups of three and following the recipe step-by-step. The banana muffin recipe is perfect as it only yields 12 muffins…
Kids Love to Cook Recipe Book
Share the Ideas & Inspiration As a baker the greatest thrill is teaching the next generation how to cook. Each month I have the joy of offering baking and cooking classes with our community recreation programs. The children’s ages range from ages three – twelve years old. I created Kids Love to Cook Recipe book to…