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I just want to share a few links to some Angry Birds cakes that I found while searching cakes here at work.  I'm simply amazed at both how popular and how good the cakes look.  Personally, I couldn't bake a square chocolate cake, so I wouldn't know how difficult is to make an Angry Birds cake; but - to me at least - most of the Angry Birds cakes out there look amazing!

Angry Birds Playable Cake Video:…

cut three more petals from the larger size cutter add gum glue to the bottom have portion and adhere them to the flower, dont forget to soften the ends, u can curl up one end of one of the petals for a natural look, let dry.

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 this is the gardenia taught in this tutorial

tools needed, needle nose pliers, celcakes,white floral wire,white floral tape,brush,gumpaste,gum glue,board,small roller and yellow petal dust.

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next i cut three of the smaller petals from the wilton large rose cutter, use whatever  cutter you have that looks like this shape. there are over 250 different varities of gardenia, the shapes of the petals are endless so you can get away with using similar cutters if you dont have the gardenia cutters. Once the petals are cut u wanna use your ball tool and soften the…

I have made a tutorial on two different types of gumpaste Gardenia, but i do not know how to put it up on the website, i could only find,Video, i dont have a video. I took step by step pictures of the making of both different gardenias. Is it possible for me to upload them this was and to add content to each step?

just wondering is there a business address that I could visit and

purchase goods?

http://sugaredblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-years-chocolate-favors.htm

This is my "sell sheet" for my cake decorating services. Please share with anyone you may know in the CT/Southern New England/Eastern NY area that may be looking for help. Thanks!

JM_CakeArt_SS2.pdf…

I hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season!  To my Jewish friends out there, Happy Chanukah...only two more nights to go!  To all those who celebrate Christmas, I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday and that all your wishes came true.  As this year comes to an end, I want to say thank you to Terri for creating CakesWeBake.com and to all the wonderful people I have met on this site.  I always find something here to help me to develop my skills and also to learn how to build support…

I had to put this picture of my sister-in-law Sigrid. It is so darn funny! Not the best decorated cappuccino cake I've ever made, but she makes it look priceless! lol

Filling and top of cake (and down the sides if you have enough left):

1 cup of milk mixed with 4-5 tbs. flour (I shake it up in a…

Sift together and set aside:

3 cups of cake flour

1/4 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup good quality dry cocoa (I used Hershey's)

Bring to room temperature:

6 eggs that have been separated

1 cup sour cream

1 cup real sweet cream butter

Other ingredients:

1/3 cup of Cappuccino French Vanilla mix (I used Sam's Club brand). Place the dry mix into…

This Cake was made using red and white fondant. The decorations along the sides of the cake are cut from fondant and the birds on top are gum paste. I used icing for the dots and the finishing touches. I call this a Sweet Heart Cake for Christmas because love is in the air this Holiday Season!!…

If you have the new Silhouette Cameo, you can now cut directly from the Make the Cut program. Make the Cut is a great design program and one I have used when teaching classes on using electronic cutters for cake decorating. You can download the plug-in from from www.make-the-cut.com and it is free.

I have taught myself and watched others putting cakes together and on TV recentky since I was 16 years old and made my first wedding cake with Daisys all over it boy have I come along way now since then 34 years ago I have cooking and baking cakes I occasionally from time to time find myself with a cake that the sides don't look that great after dirty icing.  It looks like one pan was too small or too large and it sticks out on the side I use to think it was ok but now I want more uniform…

You can easily create beautiful wedding cakes or cakes for any occasion with the Silhouette Cameo and Icing Image icing sheets.

 Visit my blog for step-by-step directions and more…

I have just set up an Etsy Shop. I will be selling my Pre-Cut Wedding Cake designs. You can see some of the designs I have ready to go here. This is an example of one of the designs available. I will be adding more design packages as I work on them.…

This is a wedding cake I made for a friend. I used the Cameo for all of the cut decorations. The bottom tier has 3 rows of ruffles. I cut the scalloped ruffles from gum paste. All of the flowers were made from gum paste and the petals and leaves were cut out using the Cameo. The Damask designs and flowers covering the cake were cut out using Icing Image…