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How to Create Sugar Paste Pansy

Pansies are vibrant, breathe taking, fragrant, edible, bloom and the flower most people take for granite. The pansy is linked forever to the viola, its ancestor, violas includes both pansies and violets, violets most loved for their perkiness and the their pretty perfume aroma. Pansy flowers are single with five petals that are rounded in shape, and have one…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on May 31, 2013 at 10:33am — 2 Comments

Flamboyant Mayflower Petal Cake

While Sydney was home  this past weekend, for a VERY short time, we visited the Botanical gardens. As we walked around the flowers and greenery I saw a Flamboyant Mayflower and  became mesmerized by it’s beauty! The Flamboyant Mayflower is known for its flamboyant display of flowers. In many tropical parts of the world it is grown as an ornamental tree and in…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on May 23, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Purple Perfection Peony

Peonies are one of my favorite flowers, we have had them adorn our landscaping for almost 22 years; I remember planting our first peony plant with Sydney (she was almost two) and it just happened to be Mother’s Day. As I was covering the the second cake Sydney came through the door ready for 10 days of fun (she is spending the summer in DC). I had originally…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on May 13, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments

Fabric Fondant Billow Weave Cake

 

 

I posted  a few days ago Sydney will be turning 21, and I am creating a few different cakes for her to choose from for her party. This is the first cake for her to view. This cake is a billow weave, Susan Trianos has a wonderful video explaining how she creates a wonderful tufted billow weave cake. The first time I saw the billow weave I thought of…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on May 2, 2013 at 10:16am — No Comments

Sugar Paste Fabric Rose Cake Topper

I love a full open rose sitting on top of a cake. It is a simple touch of elegance. I had planned on designing a few cakes for Sydney to choose from for 21st birthday party. The first element I need is for her to choose from is the type of topper; she is leaning towards  a flower. She wanted to see a few different types, last year we designed Butterfly…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on April 27, 2013 at 10:44pm — No Comments

Hi all

Haven't been on in a while, have been away on holiday in Vegas. Had a lovely time. Shall catch up with your creations I have missed.

Added by Mandy Donaldson on April 22, 2013 at 10:35am — No Comments

Banana Cake Recipe with chocolate truffle filling

I'm not sure if anyone is interested in this but I made a banana cake that everyone raved about.  It is very moist.  Here is the link to the recipe:  http://dessert.food.com/recipe/best-ever-banana-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting-67256.

I filled it with chocolate ruffle filling and used chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream.

The truffle filling…

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Added by Goreti on April 20, 2013 at 4:45pm — No Comments

Romantic Fondant and Royal icing 3-D sugar cookies!

I was organizing my cookie cutters, and I came across a beautiful copper corset cookie cutter Sydney had given last summer. I couldn’t believe I had not used it yet. Since Sydney loves fondant I covered them in strawberry flavored and mocha-cinnamon fondant, from Fondarific. The decorative details are piped in royal icing. While  Sydney and I were FaceTiming she…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on April 18, 2013 at 11:16am — No Comments

3-D Ruffled Ombre Dress Sugar Cookie

I have been watching General Hospital for 48 of the 50 years it has aired on ABC, my grandma and I would await for every new adventure each day at 2:00 pm CT. I skipped school on November 17th 1981 to watch Luke and Laura”s wedding, I actually missed a few more days leading up to the event. I cried in 1994 when Maxie Jones needed a heart transplant; her…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on April 12, 2013 at 10:20am — No Comments

Purple Passion Platform High Heel Tutorial

Shoes are the number one accessory; women brag about how many pairs of shoes they have in their closet. Mariah Carey had Mario Buatta designed an elegant space with gold-leaf and bleached-wood floors for her stilettos. Although my husband has to share his closet with my left over shoes I do not have a special built room just for my shoes, I would not…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on April 2, 2013 at 10:00pm — 4 Comments

Victorian Two Tone Brush Embroidery

I was showing Sydney a two tone royal icing brush embroidery (that is a mouthful), and she thought the cookies would be a wonderful dessert to create for Mother’s Day. I must say I agree,  the cookies would look exquisite in a clear top box with a blush pink ribbon. In fact I am planning on remaking the exact…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on March 28, 2013 at 9:00am — No Comments

Vintage Easter Basket

It was wonderful having Sydney baking and decorating with me this past week, however I admit saying goodbye has become harder as she visits more often. I began realizing our relationship will be a series of visits and goodbyes. She loves living in D.C. and will probably go to graduate school at George Washington University. I am happy to see her become a…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on March 20, 2013 at 6:47pm — No Comments

Creating a Cake Wrap

I have just added a post to my CreativeDesignsforCakes blog. This is a bonus chapter to the book that accompanies the Silhouette Cameo and accessory package we sell. This is an overview on creating a cake wrap. Here are a few examples of cakes made using this new technique. http://www.creativedesignsforcakes.blogspot.com

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Added by Linda McClure on March 20, 2013 at 12:47am — No Comments

Frilled Easter Egg

I was inspired to create a sugar cookie with frills from a Craftsy video and a beautiful fluted egg cookie cutter I purchased at …

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on March 13, 2013 at 7:05pm — No Comments

The Luck of the Irish, Crème de Menthe Cupcakes

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DF asked me to bake cupcakes for the women in human resources (to thank them). With St. Patrick’s Day around the corner I thought they should be decorated for the occasion. I was inspired by, of all things, a 21 century insurance…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on March 13, 2013 at 7:00pm — No Comments

“In your Easter Bonnet with all The Frills Upon it”

I have had a love for Judy Garland since I was a little girl; my father introduced me to The Wizard of Oz when I was two. From that moment on, I watched every Judy Garland movie I could find. I still can recall the first time I saw Judy Garland and Fred Astaire dancing and singing to classics like “We’re a Couple Swells”, “Drum Crazy”, and of course “Easter…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on February 25, 2013 at 10:58am — No Comments

Sugar Cookie Card

Every year D.F. romantically buys a dozen roses and chooses a card in which he meticulously underlines the words he feels is a representations of his feelings for me. He buys Sydney sweet cards for an daughter and 2 roses as well. This year I thought I would create an edible Valentine’s card for him, and  for Sydney (I am sending most of the cookie cards to her &…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on February 25, 2013 at 10:49am — 1 Comment

Cherry Blossom Fortune Cupcakes

How fun to adorn cupcakes with fondant fortune cookies with a personalized message; adding gumpaste cherry blossom flowers for a romantic touch! 

Sydney started noticing personalized fortune cookies and thought it might be fun if we created fondant fortune cookies with a gumpaste personalized message. I thought it would be perfect to add cherry…

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Added by Bobbie Noto http://bobbiesbaking on February 25, 2013 at 10:46am — No Comments

Making of Jack Frost Sugar Sculpture

Hello all,

 

A lot of people often ask me how I make my sugar sculptures and sculpted cakes. For my most recent cake I went ahead and took pictures of my Jack Frost sculpture progress.

 

 

I posted all the making of pictures here:…

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Added by Fernanda Abarca on February 10, 2013 at 3:00pm — No Comments

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