I'm fairly new to making cakes, so wanted to combine my inexperience with them with something I know a bit more about; flooding with royal icing.
I ended up with this simple fondant-covered Christmas cake design:
You don't want to see the edges of this cake at the back; who knew that covering a ...
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How to do Royal Icing Flood Work or Runouts
Gingerbread House Ideas
It's become a tradition of mine to make a gingerbread house every Christmas season. As usual, I turned to Teresa Layman's books Gingerbread for All Seasons and Gingerbread: Things to Make and Bake for templates and inspiration. This is what I ended up with:
Below is the back:
The fondant ...
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Bombay Sapphire Gin Gingerbread Houses
These are Bombay Sapphire Gin Gingerbread Houses.
How's that for a tongue twister?
And how would you like 20 of them?
They have gin inside. ;-)
Each house has the ingredients for a Bombay Sapphire Gin Apple Cheer cocktail inside it.
I don't normally do orders, but I couldn't resist the offer ...
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Winner of Peggy Porschen’s book Cake Chic!
It's time to announce the winners of Peggy Porschen's newest book, Cake Chic!
All the entries from the post and twitter were entered into the draw at www.random.org, at 6:57 Eastern Standard Time and the winner was comment #84; Alicia! Congrats to you! I'll be contacting you to send ...
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Peggy Porschen Interview (and Cake Chic Giveaway too!)
She's my 'cake idol', one of my favorite inspirations, she's Peggy Porschen and she's got a new book out!
I am thrilled to announce that I had the opportunity to interview Peggy and will be sharing that interview with you here. I'm also happy to announce that I will be giving away one signed copy ...
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"Blog Candy" Winners!
It's time to announce the winners of the Planet Cake and Confetti Cakes For Kidsbooks!
So, how many gumballs were in the 'jar'?
There were 222 gumballs! (I say were because I've been enjoying chewing them all week).
Here's the comment that won:
Hi there
What a fun site :)
I am guessing ...
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