Out of most frostings, Cream Cheese frosting is one of my favorites. I love its creamy and smooth texture and the taste is absolutely amazing. It also goes very well with most cake flavors, especially Red Velvet Cake. But at the same time, cream cheese frosting can be quite tricky to work with. It’s silky and smooth texture does not…
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How to make a Leprechaun Cake
Making cakes for the holiday’s is something that absolutely LOVE to do! This Leprechaun cake was really fun to make and the idea for this cake came from the Unicorn cakes. I love how those designs are simplified but at the same time elegant. As for this Leprechaun Cake, I tried to go with that same style and it came…
4 tips to get Sharp Edges with Buttercream
Cakes with sharp edges have been in style for a very long time. When I first started out making cakes, I used to wonder how people managed to work with buttercream and made it look very neat. I just knew that it had to be very difficult to deal with considering the fact that buttercream is very soft and…
Tips for Making Delicious Chocolate Buttercream
I absolutely love this recipe because it’s so easy to whip up and it tastes great with so many cake flavors. It’s very rich and creamy, plus it crusts over well very similar to ganache. I’ve made this recipe for several cakes especially chocolate cake, white chocolate, vanilla, and yellow of course. Anytime that I make this buttercream it doesn’t…
Valentine’s Heart Sculpture Cake
This cake idea literally came to me in a vision and after I saw it, I thought really hard on how I should make this cake come to life. I had a vision of a heart floating with veins wrapped around it and sticking out of the bottom and top of the cake like they were growing out of the…
Tips for Freezing and Storing Cakes
We all love cakes that are fresh, delicious, and moist. We all especially love saving slices of cake from sentimental events such as weddings, first birthday’s, graduations, and etc. Depending on the way you store that cake can determine whether it keeps it freshness or not. I absolutely hate the freezer taste on anything I eat such as meats and…
How to Make Homemade Cake Boards with Foam Boards
Making a cake without a cake board just would be right! It would be like a putting on your clothes without any underwear and that’s just not right! Cake boards are very simple and yet very important to the structure of your cake. In order for your cake to be stackable, you have to have each cake tier on sturdy…
Tips for making Boxed Cake mix Taste Homemade
As a child, I could never taste the difference between a scratch made cake and a cake made from boxed cake mix. However, I do remember getting very excited when my mother made cakes using box mix because when it came to licking the spoon, me and my brother would literally fight over it. It wasn’t until I had a…
How to Store Fondant for up to 3 months, Preserving its Freshness
Properly storing fondant will help to keep it fresh and moist, while sustaining the elasticity. Fondant is pretty awesome because depending on how good you store it, it can last for up to 3 months. This comes in handy for those cakes with so many colors and instead of having to make all of those colors before making a cake,…
4 Different Ways to Color Marshmallow Fondant
In my previous article on How to make Marshmallow Fondant, we slightly touch on the the topic of coloring fondant and the different ways this can be achieved. We all love how beautiful cakes look covered in fondant, but no one actually like the taste of it, especially if you’ve added too much coloring to it. So today, i’m going…