Happy Birthday Alyssa!! One of my sweetest friends had a birthday last week!! If I’m able to make a friend a cake…I JUMP at the chance!! Life is so busy, unfortunately, so I can’t get to all my friends every birthday…but if I could make all my sweet friends a cake, I would! The […]
Birthday Cakes, Sculptured CakesI get a lot of emails from bakers and cake makers with lots of questions. They range from “how I do “x” technique” or “can I have your “x” recipe?” or simply sweet emails with cries for HELP! I try to get back to everyone as soon as I can, but I thought I’d post […]
Buttercream, Fondant, Ganache, Modeling Chocolate, Photo Tutorials, Recipe TutorialsI just posted the Little Purse Tutorial yesterday based on a cake demo I did at a women’s retreat last weekend (read this post). My cousin Jamie was there and apparently took some video of me. I guess I kept saying, “See it’s easy!” after I would do something simple and would hear the “Ooooh’s […]
Funny, Sculptured Cakes, Video Tutorials
I have a treat for you!! – A tutorial on how to make a purse cake! A few months ago I received a phone call from my mother-in-law’s sweet friend Karin. She was organizing a women’s retreat and wanted to know if I’d come down and do a cake demo after lunch and talk about […]
Celebration Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
How amazing is this?!!!!????!!! I LOVED it the moment I saw it! My sweet friend Deborah created this fantasy flower with frosting/icing sheets. You can pick these sheets up now at Michael’s or online. I’m amazed at the time she spent putting together a tutorial for it, so I had to share with all of […]
Photo Tutorials, Sugar Flowers, Wafer Paper
I love this little bow! It’s SO simple to make and simple in its style. All you need is a little template and a little modeling chocolate and you can make your own!! Here’s what you need: When using a small amount of modeling chocolate, I like to roll it out on wax paper. It […]
Photo Tutorials, Templates
I’m so happy to share this beautiful baby shower with you!! My sweet cousin, Ashley, is having her third baby, but first baby girl!! We are SO excited for her!! She is the most amazing woman!! She’s ALL girl, yet puts on her boots and goes hunting with her husband! She took her two boys […]
Celebration Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Templates
Happy Birthday Kendra!!!! Last weekend my family and I had the privilege to spend a few hours with the amazing Jamie Zanotti of JAZ Photography out of Eugene, OR. She is not only an incredible photographer, but she LOVES Jesus with her whole heart, adores people and capturing their memories, is an amazing wife and […]
Celebration Cakes, Photo Tutorials, Sculptured Cakes
I’ve had questions in the past about some of the unique shapes you might see that show up on my cakes and where I get those cutters/templates from. A great place to find inspiration as well as fun templates for cake making is Two Peas in a Bucket. It’s an amazing scrapbook site that has […]
Non-Cake DesignsHappy Saturday everyone!! We just had our family pics taken this morning downtown Portland!! I can’t wait to see them! My sweet baby girl decided she was D.O.N.E after about an hour and half of walking, posing and being held! It was funny because we could NOT get her to do anything…she wanted down on […]
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