The summer holidays are here and the sun is shinning. So a little batch of yummy summer cupcakes is what we will enjoy today. I have used royal icing which gives a nice crunchy frosting. It is also, in my opinion, the best frosting to use on warm and sunny days.
Needle-felt cupcake pillows
Just wanted to show you some sweet non-edible crafts that I have made. Two sweet needle-felt cupcake pillows. Next to cake decorating, needle-felting is another favourite craft of mine.
Gum paste peonies
What do you think of my gum paste peonies? I have been working on them the last couple of days. It is my second go with peonies and I must say that they look difficult to make, but they are quite easy to make.
Testing the white chocolate fondant
I have now been testing the white chocolate fondant. I decided to test it on a dummy cake first. That way it was easier to peel off the fondant if there were any problems. I did not experience any problems while covering the dummy cake.
CakeJournal’s tutorials on PDF
For a long time I have wanted to be able to collect all my tutorials in a folder. A folder that I could bring with me into the kitchen. Being a perfectionist and a sucker for all things sweet and pink a simple screen print could of course not do the job.
White chocolate fondant
I have for some time now heard about a very tasty white chocolate fondant that Jennifer Dontz makes on one of her dvds. The white chocolate fondant should be really good to work with and who would not like that? There is nothing worse than a rolled fondant that tear and crack when you cover…
Cake tool giveaway
There are always some cake decorating tools in the toolbox, that turns into the “favourite ones”. I have five cake decorating tools that I just love to work with: 1: My set of sculpting tools. 2: The 5 petal blossom silicone veiner. 3: Rose petal cutter set in various sizes. For big and small gum…
Ballet cookies
Having a daughter who loves ballet, I just had to make these pretty ballet cookies for her. They are made with my own (paper) templates, so no cookie cutters used. I used a little Brush embroidery on the Tutu, to get the “look” like layers of tulle. I think that it worked out very good….
How to make a gum paste bow update
I have made a how to make a gum paste bow update for you. It was much needed as the old one was from the early years of CakeJournal. You can find the bow update here. Speaking of bows, see more gum paste bows on some of my (old) cakes in the cake gallery. Happy…