Sweet Indulgences Cakes

For all of you poker lovers……
Materials
Gum paste (red, blue)
Small rolling pin
2 circle cutters with a ¼” difference in diameter.
Paint brush
Black gel food coloring

Lightly dust your work surface with confectioner’s sugar and then roll your red or blue gum paste to 1/8” thick.   Use your larger circle cutter to cut out your poker chips and then [...]

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.

Check out my Ezine article on Assembling a Tiered Cake!

Pretty Party Cakes by Peggy Porschen – This is a really nice colorful decorating book; however, it is not for beginners.  It’s filled with festive cookie ideas and unique cakes that would bring excitement to any experienced decorator.  The beginning of the book focuses on recipes as well as what tools and equipment you will [...]

One of my favorite materials for decorating is luster dust.  You can apply it to mediums such as fondant, gumpaste and modeling chocolate.  It can be airbrushed, dry brushed or painted on.  For purposes of this how-to, we’re going to discuss hand painting.
Materials:
-Fondant Covered Cake
-Luster Dust
-Lemon Extract
-Sponge Brush (you can use a paint brush but [...]

This cake was made for a baby shower.  It’s covered in pink vanilla and chocolate fondant.  There is pink cake inside the chocolate fondant tier and chocolate cake inside the pink tier.  The inside is filled with vanilla buttercream and fresh sliced strawberries.  The baby booties and rattle are made with gumpaste.

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 [...]

This was a 2 layer chocolate and vanilla cake.  It was filled with chocolate buttercream.

This cake is decorated with buttercream using the basketweave technique and then roses were placed to add some color.  Tip:  always make sure your flowers are fresh and pesticide free before placing them on a cake!

Brush embroidery is actually pretty simple.  Outline a shape such as a flower with buttercream.  Then take a damp paint brush and carefully drag the outline of buttercream in towards the center.  I used a tip 3 for the above cake.