I’ve always wanted to be able to make display cakes. Unfortunately for me, my store is too small to accommodate a display window or even a small display case to hold cakes in their actual sizes as samples for potential customers. All I have to present to clients are photos of my previous works. It’s…
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My caking problem: Underestimating a cake design
I am not sure if it is just me, but one of the things I always mess up with is underestimating a cake design. This usually happens when I really like a specific theme or design, and somebody asks me to make it for the first time. Since I am overwhelmed by my eagerness to…
Getting started with sugar cookies: Decorating with color flow and fondant
Have you baked your sugar cookies based on the Wilton recipe I shared in my previous post? Then you are ready for the next step: decorating them. Color flow Other cookie decorators use royal icing, and they have their own recipe. Meanwhile, I decorate my sugar cookies using Wilton color flow. Wilton also has it’s own…
Why should you learn how to make sugar cookies?
I made some really pretty sugar cookies the other day. They were for the 69th birthday of my client’s mom. She loves gold, pink, and teal. I really love making sugar cookies. It was one of the first things I learned when I was starting out. Even before I started baking and decorating cakes, I…
Mack the Truck: another cake collaboration with my husband
Lately, my husband has been showing a lot of interest in cake decorating. While his involvement in cake decorating before was more on driving me to delivery locations and sourcing wooden rods and wooden trays to support my cakes aside from handing me a lot of criticism, these days he’s carving the cake and crafting…