Swiss meringue buttercream is addictive! In a good sense, this thing is addictive, have you tried Swiss meringue buttercream aka SMBC ? When I started decorating cakes back in the day, all I knew was American ButterCream (ABC) and I had to make it myself. And since I was making cakes under the Texas Cottage Law any other kind of frosting…
I had no idea how in the world geode cakes were made or what to think about them. It looked kind of awkward to me, but the different shades of purple and the crystal look got me intrigued. Rachel Teufel is the cake artist who created the cake I am talking about. Here is a class she offers on the geode cakes.…
How to make a Valentines Day Tree of Hearts About two years ago, talking with my sister about home decor and diy’s she mentioned she had found a very creative lady over on youtube who shared techniques on how to paint with acrylics. The shared techniques were easy to follow, so easy that I would be able to recreate one…
Rich, sweet and tangy cream cheese frosting to use on carrot cake or any other dessert that calls for cream cheese frosting.
How to make a fondant penguin for Christmas During Christmas season you find the most beautiful things everywhere you go, I can spend hours pinning on Pinterest. So many cute ideas to try, and at the end of the season I make none pretty much, lol. Please don’t judge me, Pinterest is like an entire whole world of its own.…
How to make a reindeer cake for Christmas It is almost a year since I started a new adventure in my life, y’know just to keep it interesting. It was mid November and most caker suffer from a rare condition and I “suffer” from it too, this “condition” is to create videos about how to decorate cakes. And I had…
How to make a Christmas cake / wreath bundt cake Are you on the Christmas day spirit already? I AM! It is the most wonderful time of the year ! as the song says. It is the holiday I enjoy the most because it is full of color, happiness and mainly it gives me hope. It is a reminder that…
Best-Ever Carrot cake recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting I bet you have known carrot cake pretty much since you were born. And that is because it has been around for centuries now, there is even a carrot cake recipe dating November 25, 1783. This carrot cake was served to George Washington according to Molly O’Neill on her book New York Cookbook (1992). I grew…
Not into pumpkin? Let’s make Cranberry Apple cake then! I do like pumpkin, but since people start using it to cook and prepare deserts with it right around the end of September, by the time it is Thanksgiving day I am not thrilled to have food or dessert which the ingredient is pumpkin. Does this happen to you too? And the…
So making a Dia de los Muertos cake sounds a fun way to contribute to this celebration…even though there is a recipe for Pan de Muerto which tastes like oranges. A simple decorated cake sounds more appealing to me. What I remember about the Dia de los Muertos. It is mid October, I would walk down on one of the…
