Thursday, April 28, 2011

Gumpaste Garden Rose Tutorial

Here is the tutorial I promised.

You can pause it at any time to read content.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and I'll make sure to answer as soon as possible.


Thank you.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

3 Ways To Make a Rose

Next week I'll be posting pictures on how to make a small gumpaste garden rose in three different ways.
2 of them without using cutters and one using cutters and wire. Learn how to arrange your roses in a little bouquet.

These are roses on wires. I will demonstrate how make them like this and without the wire.

Stay tuned.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Cake Pops/Cake Balls

Making cake pops is just a fantastic way to use up all the cake cuts that you don't use after carving your cake. In the link Bakerella shows many ways of creating fantastic varieties of cake pops.
Another thing that you could do with them is to make cake balls or cake truffles. They are yummy and you could flavor them any way you want. Below is a recipe for cake balls. Enjoy

Cake Balls
  • Ingredients
  • One cooled cake – any size and any flavor (or you can use all those left over scraps)
  • One bottle liquid coffee creamer – any flavor complimentary to cake – or anything to use as a binder, Butter cream icing.
  • Melted Chocolate – amount varies with how many balls need to be dipped
  • Parchment Paper lined tray/plate/platter
  • Place cooled cake or scraps into a bowl in large pieces
  • Using a fork, crumble the cake into a nice crumb
    When it appears all the cake is crumbled use the fork, or your hands, and run thru it to make sure it’s all crumbled.
  • Pour in liquid coffee creamer judging by eye, until a medium sized puddle forms, set aside for a moment.
  • Place chocolate to be melted in a microwave safe bowl, microwave following melting directions.
  • While chocolate is melting, put on and begin mixing the crumb liquid mixture.
    Mix until a soft mushy dough forms.
  • Once you get the mixture to the consistency you would like it, roll a small amount into a ball using the palms of your hands, or a cookie scoop, or a melon baler, anything will work for this.
  • Place platter into the freezer for about 30-90 minutes
  • After removing platter from freezer, take one ball at a time, and roll it around in the melted chocolate with the help of a spoon.
  • Place dipped balls back onto the parchment paper lined tray for drying.
  • TIP: Store frozen – un-dipped – cake balls in an air tight container sealed with both lid and plastic wrap. Remove just before dipping to help the chocolate coating set.
  • Serve them cold.

Friday, April 8, 2011

New Flavors

In the last few days I have been playing with some new flavors of icings/fillings; and use my husband, son and neighborhood kids as taste testers, of the flavors I worked on.The preference were as follow.
Icing/Filling Flavors:
(A) Oreos buttercream (B). Chocolate Fudge (C). Blueberry Cream Cheese.

Kids favorite (A), (B).
Husband's favorite (B), (A).
My favorite (B), (C)

I think next time I'll have to include more girls in the taste testing since I was the only one who liked fruit in my icing.
Will see how it goes with the next set of taste testing.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Chicken Sandwich Cake

I had a lot of fun making this cake today. I delivered to a first grade class and everyone could not believe that it was a cake. It was a lot of fun to make it.

This is a chocolate cake with Oreos cookies and cream buttercream icing.