Category: Cake Decorating

Pretty Cupcake using Alton Brown’s Buttercream Frosting

Really like AB’s frosting recipe because it tastes pretty good and it does not require taking candy thermometer because there is not need to make any syrup. Ingredients: 6 oz unsalted butter (room temperature) 2 oz crisco (the plain white one) 1 large egg 1 pound of icing sugar 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract   Place…

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Princess Pink Cupcake

Lemon cake with lemony icing. Specially made a few pink ones to celebrate the birth of a new princess! Just box cake mix and special lemony frosting base in previous posted wedding cake buttercream.                 

Marshmallow Fondant

I have learned this recipe from “Cupcake Addiction” and I highly recommend you give this a try.  It is so simple to make and so much tastier than traditional fondant or store bought fondant. The resulted fondant is less flexible than my wedding cake fondant recipe.  Recommend you use marshmallow version if you intend to…

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Homemade Marshmallow – so sweet

I have bought all the ingredients and tools for ages and always lack the courage to go ahead to actually make it.  Turned out it is indeed brain dead simple to make and taste completely different from store bought.  It is likely more expensive to make your own then buying but this is totally worth…

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Rolled Fondant

Making your home made fondant is actually not difficult. 1 tablespoon gelatin 4 tablespoons cold water 1/2 cup Lily Whit corn syrup 2 tablespoon white cirsco 1 tablespoon glycerin 11 teaspoon of clear vanilla extract 1/2 stp of almon extract 2 lbs of icing sugar Dissolve gelatin in cold water and let stand for 5…

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Ginger and Apricot Pound Cake

Wedding cake decoration class work — The cake still very moisted but too dense .. almost as packed as fruit cake =PP