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The second part of my Making a Sugar Rose Video Tutorial Again, I finally narrated it so you can get inside my head and crawl around a bit and find out what I do and why. There are always so many [...]

I’ve pulled out all the stops and really opened my Pandora’s box of tips, tricks, and cake HACKS for you in my new class Industry Secrets for the Savvy Decorator over on Craftsy! [...]

This nautical cake was in my head for a while. But just the cake. Not the anchor. As I finished that awesome inlaid wafer wrap, I just KNEW that it needed something more. It was practically [...]

My last blog post about designing cakes seemed to be wonderfully received by y’all sooooo….. Time for a few new and ah-MAZING cakers to share their brains with us! You’re gonna [...]

Do you get stuck when trying to design a cake? Just not inspired, not much direction from your customer, or just lacking cakey mojo? I hear ya. It happens. I talk about my process with this [...]

  Who loves ice cream????? I can pretty much be convinced to do anything if ice cream is my reward. (I hear the gears turning in your noggin’… No taking advantage of my [...]

Edible gelatin sequins…   They are beautiful. They are wonderfully shiny. They have fabulous texture. But how do you get ’em on the cake?!? THIS is how Enjoy my craziness! And be [...]

Oooh how I have been waiting for a project to use these beauties on! I first created these in January of this year while I was experimenting with gelatin for my She Dragon cake. It was a whim and [...]

Photography by Vita Bella Photography You’ve been asking (well, almost demanding, but it’s all good. I feel loved ) for this tutorial on my Wafer Bouquet Roses that I used in the [...]

I had never made anything ombre prior to creating this little ditty. I was purely curious about how other cakers ombre’d things, so I though I’d share how I did it and ask for [...]

I love the ranunculus. It’s like the mille-feuille of the botanical world, lush with impossibly delicate, silky petals. No matter how many different ways I’ve tried, I have never been content [...]