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Mother's Day is almost here, and what better way to celebrate than by making Mom some beautiful and delicious cupcakes? You can start with your favorite go to cupcake mix or a box mix or try one of our favourite recipes  Carrot Cake and Dutch Chocolate Cake. In this blog post, we'll show you how to decorate cupcakes with 5 different (but complimentary designs) for Mother's Day, with tutorials ranging from beginner to interme...

Check out this fun Easter Basket Cake our resident cake decorator, Jayden, made. This is an relatively easy project and that someone with a bit of piping experience could undertake. The  basketweave piping tip (1D)was made for projects like this, literally. What the video below to see how Jayden puts it together. She says the hardest part in doing this cake is getting the spacing even.  For the purposes of this demo we are...

How to Make Carrot Top CupcakesStep 1: Make the Greenery The tops of the carrots are made by free-hand cutting "leafy" shapes out of fondant using our PenBlade #10 and then letting the shapes dry for about 12 hours so they become hardened enough to stand up on their own. Once you cut the shapes out place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet or cake board. Let "air" dry for about 6 hours and then gently flip them over to dry the back side o...

Watch the video to learn how to pipe a rosette and add simple fondant leaves to make a cute Valentines rose cupcake. Arrange the cupcakes on a silver cake board and add a some rolled fondant stems and a fondant bow and voila! you have a simple rose cupcake bouquet to share with your Valentines.  In our videos we demonstrate the piping technique on styrofoam "cupcakes".  Jayden uses a simple swirl technique that starts in the cen...

Jayden decided to show off our various knit silicone molds from Marvelous Molds and made a spectacular 4 tier cake all in white featuring the 3 knit patterns.  Cake Decorating Supplies  5lbs Fat Daddio White Fondant Rib & Cable Knit Silicone MoldClassic Knit Silicone MoldTrinity Knit Silicone MoldMitten Cookie CutterChocolate Wafers (to stick mittens to stick)Wooden Dowel (to attach mittens to top of cake)On this cake the top tier...