Silicone Mold Dessert Eggs
For Easter, try this festive take on stuffed egg hors d’oeuvres. Instead of deviled eggs, these pastry cream & cake dessert eggs are angelic and sweet. Like… me! (Mwahahahaaaa!) I found a new product to play with, and this was the result!
Cake Decorating Idea – Streamers!
I went to the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn this past weekend. This awesome event, coming to a town near YOU, celebrates DIY crafts! The RCF features tons of talented artists, and their handmade goodies! (At the Fair, Cakeb0t had a crush on Caseybot! Heehee!) One visual theme about the event was that there were [...]
Practice Buttercream Icing
I’ve put up a new link on the website: Recipes! It’s still under construction, and I’m adding more recipes day by day. Here is a great recipe for practice buttercream! Click at the top to review more basic recipes. Practice Buttercream uses all shortening, and no butter, so it’s technically edible, but I’d just use [...]
Cake Decorating Techniques : Split, Fill, and Crumb Coat a Cake!
Splitting, filling, and crumb coating, are all the basic steps to creating a layered cake just before you ice it. The crumb coat is a technique used to trap free crumbs in a thin layer of icing. That way, when you finally ice the cake, no crumbs will show up in your beautiful icing! Here’s [...]
Sanding Sugar Cookies – How to Make Confetti Cakes Sugar Cookies for Valentine’s Day!
Decorated cookies are a quick and easy way to bake and make a statement. Sanding sugar can be a great decorating tool, especially for beginners. At the bottom of this post is a video on using sanding sugar to decorate heart-shaped sugar cookies, inspired by one of the instructionals in the Confetti Cakes Cookbook. She [...]
