Mommy loves to bake

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Valentines Cupcake Ideas

These fun cupcakes are quite easy to create! First, bake a batch of chocolate cupcakes. I used my favorite chocolate cupcake recipe, but feel free to use any recipe or box mix you prefer. The only special instructions would be to make sure to fill the liners just a bit more than you might normally (about 1/2 inch below the top of the liner), because you need to have a bit of a dome above the top edge of the liners.

Affordable Alphabet cutters

I got a call from my friend the other day, and she was asking me if i could make her daughter an alphabet cake. She wanted a pink fondant cake with alphabets (gumpaste) as the basic medium of design. Right after we hang up, i went online to check on alphabet cookie cutters. I am a wilton fan, but i really don't use my money to buy baking gadgets. Most of my wilton goodies are gifts from loved ones.

Note: If you are planning to bake for a long period of time then try to invest on good high-quality brands. They may seem costly at first but their endurance can provide you years and years of service.

Going back to alphabet cutters. This is what i was able to browse online:

Wilton Fondant Decorative Punch Set

Another weapon of choice when im decorating fondant cakes is the Fondant Decorative Punch Set. It helps me add exciting 3 dimensional decorations to my rolled fondant, it's also perfect for enhancing details to my cakes, cupcakes and even cookies.

I have a slight obsession with press sets. I really believe that making a beautiful cakes shouldn't cause you any trouble at all. Thank goodness that wilton answers all the unserved needs of bakers all over the globe.

My pattern press set had been helping me deliver wonderful cakes to friends and family.

Plug: Thank you Ate Michelle for giving me wonderful baking gifts. I love you.

Last year, i receive a package from my sister. Inside this lovely box are assorted wilton products. I cannot put into words the excitement I felt as soon as i opened that brown box. One of the goddies inside are Wilton Cake Stencils. I love this babies because its very easy to use and it gives your cake a make over with the blink of an eye. It's that fast and easy. You can use powdered sugar, cocoa, lustre dusts and of course buttercream frosting.

You need not to be a rocket scientist to figure this one out:

All you need for are the ff:

1. buttercream frosting (if you are

using buttercream)

2. food coloring of your choice

3. an elevated spatula

4. a cake

5. Wilton stencils

Practice makes perfect. While it is very easy, you still need a little practice to perfect the art of transferring stencils on to your cake. I usually practice over a sheet of paper or wherever. Just make sure to practice before layering it over to your cake.

Patience is a virtue and Practice makes perfect.

However, If you don't have patience then you better go for powdered sugar.

Awesome cake is awesome.

Happy stencils,

Dina

Edible Lustre Dust

Sparkling dusts or lustre edible dusts are very visible in fondant designs now a days. Maybe its because it adds beauty to fondant and gum paste toppers. Im not sure if it can be used in gum paste since it hardens more easily than fondant. It kinda gives your cookies and toppers a metallic shiny look and what makes it more awesome is that its edible. Definitely Fabulously colorful and shimmering. These edible sparkling dusts add a magical element to your sugar craft creations and cake decorating.