Sweet Indulgences Cakes

This was my first ever attempt at making petit fours. I think next time I’ll try to use poured fondant icing instead of ganache.  Petit fours are great for bridal showers, weddings and more.   Here are the simple steps I took to create these delicate desserts.

You’ll need heavy whipping cream (approx 1/2 [...]

Kids will love these!  I made these cute little monkey cupcakes  to use as an example for a kids cupcake decorating class i’m teaching.  Normally, I would make my icing from scratch and put it into piping bags; however, I figured the tubed decorating icing would be much more simple for little kids to use.  [...]

I used pre-colored red and black Satin Ice fondant for this cake.  The flowers were made with a set of metal flower cutters.  I simply layered the flowers and added a bit of texture to them with a toothpick.

This cake was for a pre-school graduation.  I used a Wilton shaped pan and then decorated the cake with buttercream.   I used the star tip to do most of the work and round tips to do the outlining.  To make the border I first piped using the shell tip and then I added the leaves [...]

Yes…. even the bear on top is cake   I used the Wilton mini bear pan along with star tips to pipe the bear and create the shell border.  ****Tip*****In order to make the eyes, nose, ears, etc smooth dip your finger in corn starch and pat down the buttercream icing.  See my post [...]

I decided to take a stab at cookie decorating.  My local craft store had a Halloween cookie basket class so I signed right up.  Making a cookie basket is almost as much fun as decorating a cake.  I used thinned royal icing to cover the cookies and medium consistency royal icing to decorate.  Check out [...]