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I had so many little details on my Steampunk "Venus De Milo" statue cake that I thought I'd take a few macro shots and post them in a note so I didn't have a zillion photos of the same cake in my album...…

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You've made a fabulous cake and now you want to share your photos, but your pictures may not be turning out as well as you'd like. You're not a professional photograhper and don't want to invest in an expensive camera or equipment so what can you do?



With a few small changes you can dramatically improve the quality of your cake photos! Some people will spend a small amount of money to create a little "photo studio" with some special lighting and back grounds but if you're a hobbiest… Continue

Gluten-free baking poses it's own unique set of challenges, and once you start baking without wheat based flours you'll notice that each gluten free flour has it's own unique properties. Gluten free flours do not rise as easily or high as wheat flours and you'll often notice an abnormally high number of eggs used in recipes to help resolve that. Also using a small amount of guar or xantham gum in your recipes helps reduce the "crumbling…

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Cake carving can seem intimidating when you first start cake decorating with one of the biggest challenges being not knowing where to start! My moto is that if you can stack a tiered cake you can pretty much make anything!

It's all a matter of getting your cake tiers to your desired height and then patiently carving and carving and CARVING!!! :-)…

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