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Well not really a trick so much as using the right product to do the thinning. We love our Guittard Chocolate which is a higher quality but still affordable melting chocolate with minimal fillers. Recently we have been fielding a bunch of questions on the best way to thin the chocolate for use in fountains or fondues. The two main choices are using Cocoa Butter or Paramount Crystals.Cocoa Butter For us this is the clear...

Jayden was inspired by the new  Classic Single Swag mold from Marvelous Molds and thought that a Princess Cake would be just the thing to try it out on.   The top tier of this cake features our  Cinderella Topper set.  The elegant second tier of this cake shows a quilted diamond pattern accented with  gold dragees. Jayden took the easy road and  used our quilting tool to make the pattern. The sho...

We love making funky cupcake stands for our displays at the Scoop. Duck tape is cheap and comes in so many fun colours and patterns that it is easy to create the perfect stand. We've used camoflague for hunting themed cupcakes and pink for princess cupcakes and of course the red for Canada Day cupcakes.  Even better they are re-usuable - need to re-theme - just re-tape the cake dummies with a different colour or pattern. Supplies:Colour...