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Dec 19, 2014

Shaking It Up With Snow Globe Decorated Sugar Cookies

Have you heard of a Secret Santa/Cookie Exchange? It’s a natural combination when you’re part of the Wilton Cake Decorating’s Sweet Treat Team. Hmmm, then I had an idea that had me shaken and stirred! Mostly shaken. 🙂 As in shakin’ those sprinkles! Click on the video below and you might be shaken too! Snow globe cookies! Watch it snow! ❄️ #cookies #decoratedcookies #decoratedsugarcookies #shakeitoff #snow #wiltontreatteam #wiltoncakes #wilton @wiltoncakes #sweetswap A video posted by Marilyn (Mac) ?… [Read More]

Dec 3, 2014

West Elm OC Holiday Cookie Decorating Workshop Event December 4, 2014 “Oh What Fun!”

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]

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Nov 30, 2014

Snowflake Gingerbread Cake with a Cocoa Trimming Kit

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]

Filed Under: Cupcakes & Party Cakes, Seasonal Tagged With: baking, cocoa, collaborations, decorated cakes, Dessert, dessert decorations, holiday entertaining, holiday treats, holidays, party food, party styling, wilton, wilton cakes, wilton products, wilton sweet treat team, wilton treat team

Nov 24, 2014

Pretty Painted Pie Crusts

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]

Filed Under: DIY Treats, Fun Ideas, Seasonal Tagged With: autumn, baking, collaborations, decorated pie crust, fall, pie crust, pie crust cutters, pies, thanksgiving, wilton, wilton products, wilton sweet treat team, wilton treat team

Oct 27, 2014

Black Cinnamon Candied Apples

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]

Filed Under: DIY Treats, Party Favors, Seasonal, Specialty Treats Tagged With: apples, candied apples, cinnamon, collaborations, halloween, halloween treats, trick or treat, wilton, wilton cakes, wilton products, wilton sweet treat team, wilton treat team

Oct 21, 2014

Decorated Ghost Cookies With Fondant

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]

Filed Under: DIY Treats, Fall & Halloween Cookies Tagged With: baking, collaborations, cookie decorating, cookie decorating DIY, cookie decorating tutorial, Decorated Cookies, decorated halloween cookies, fondant, halloween, halloween cookies, halloween decorations, halloween treats, party favors, pennants, wilton, wilton cakes, wilton products, wilton sweet treat team, wilton treat team

Oct 12, 2014

Wilton Fabulous Fondant Give-Away

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]

Filed Under: Cupcakes & Party Cakes, DIY Treats, Uncategorized Tagged With: baking, cake decoration, cakes, collaborations, cupcakes, fondant, fondant decorations, fondant flowers, fondant molds, give – aways, sponsored give-aways, wilton, wilton cakes, wilton products, wilton sweet treat team, wilton treat team

Aug 30, 2014

Endless Summer Cupcakes – Part 2 Wilton Sea Life Fondant Mold

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]

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Aug 25, 2014

Wilton’s Sea Life Fondant and Gum Paste Mold– Part 1

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]

Filed Under: Cupcakes & Party Cakes, DIY Treats Tagged With: cake, cake decorating technique, cake decoration, cakes, coral, cupcake toppers, cupcakes, diy, fondant, fondant molds, sand dollars, sea life, seashells, starfish, tutorial, wilton, wilton cakes, wilton products, wilton sweet treat team, wilton treat team

Aug 4, 2014

Pretty Pink Petal Cake – A Wilton Cake Decorating Technique

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]