Are you ready to get your holiday on in a sweet flurry of hands-on cookie decorating fun? I am! If you live in the SoCal area, there’s a couple spaces left for my Holiday Cookie Decorating Workshop at West Elm South Coast Plaza, Thursday, Dec. 4 at 6:30 PM! Call the store at 714-662-1960 for more information and to reserve your place at the decked out holiday table. I’ll be teaching the basic skills to decorate cut-out sugar cookies and… [Read More]
I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful. Ours was, as both boys were home and were able to stay a few days but today they’ve flown the coop again. I never get used to that but before they left they got out all the Christmas decorations and put the garlands up on the banister while I was out shopping. It was a perfect surprise! It’s a big job to get the greens and lights up on our curvy staircase so I… [Read More]
With pie making taking center stage on Wednesday along with all my other prep work for Thursday’s dinner, I’ve planned ahead and taken some steps to make the day less hectic and more organized with “pretty” still in mind. Truth be told, I cannot make a pie without a decorative crust finish. When I won the blue ribbon for my Dutch apple pie at the Orange County Fair, one of the judge’s comments was how pretty the single painted apple… [Read More]
Trick or Treat! Happy Halloween Week! Here’s a treat that’s best made a day or two before the big night. It’s a twist on the hard candied apples that are usually colored red but I’ve made these black and cinnamon flavored. That would be the trick but they’re not tricky to make. To begin, clean apples thoroughly to get the wax off. I did this by taking baking soda in my hands, dampening with water to make a paste and… [Read More]
First, thank you to all who participated in my last post’s Fabulous Fondant Wilton Give-Away. I had fun reading all your comments and seeing how you would use all the wonderful products. I’ll be choosing a winner soon! If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile you know that sometimes, I also like to use fondant to decorate cookies. On my Pinterest Board – Fondant on Cookies & Cupcakes, you’ll see lots of cookies I’ve decorated using fondant. Today I’m… [Read More]
I’m very excited to present my ”Fabulous Fondant” Wilton Cake Decorating Give-Way! I’ve been planning it for a very long time and hand choosing each wonderful product for one very lucky reader of Pink Martinis and Pearls. This fabulous fondant friend of my blog will win everything needed to get started to create fabulous cupcake toppers with embellishments. Thank you Wilton! If you haven’t worked with rolled fondant to decorate treats such as cakes, cookies or cupcakes you’ve been missing… [Read More]
If you read my post Wilton Sea Life Fondant and Gum Paste – Post Part 1 from a few days ago you know I’m loving finding a new creativity in decorating cupcakes using fondant shapes made from Wilton’s Sea Life silicone mold. In Part 1, I introduced you to this mold and shared with you a DIY tutorial on how to make the cupcake toppers you see below. In this post, I’ll share with how I decorated the cupcakes and… [Read More]
Have you ever used a fondant mold to make fun shapes for cake decorations or for cupcake toppers? That’s what I did to create these sea life fondant embellishments! Fondant is very versatile to work with and I’ve used it many times to decorate cookies but when I attended the Wilton Sweet Up earlier this year I was introduced to molding fondant. This was my first time using a fondant and gum paste mold and I have to say, I… [Read More]
When I told my friends I was going to take the Wilton Course 1 Building Buttercream Skills class at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store they thought I must be going to teach the class. After all, I’ve been decorating cakes using the Wilton method since before I was married and I’ve been married, shall we just say, decades? I told them I was going to learn new techniques and perhaps brush up on ones I was already familiar with. And… [Read More]
Happy July! I think we’re all in shock it’s here already. Today, I’ve written a guest tutorial DIY post for Danielle on her blog, Framed Frosting. I shared how I made these daisy cupcake embellishments out of rolled fondant and how very easy they are for you to make them too! I had the pleasure and fun of meeting Danielle and her perky personality and helpfulness at the Wilton Sweet Up in April at Wilton Headquarters outside of Chicago. Danielle… [Read More]
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Colonial Williamsburg Sweet Potato Muffins
A Holiday Cocktail ~ Carrot Cake Martinis
Make-Ahead Frozen Buttercream Cake Decorations
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Gentleman Jack (Jack Daniels) Cupcakes Recipe
Wedding Dress Decorated Cookies For A Bridal Shower
How To Host a Shabu-Shabu Party – An Interactive Dining Experience for a Group: Part 1
