Cakes

Pinkalicious Birthday!

By Annie Holland / September 9, 2010

You know, I’ve always thought that my daughter wouldn’t like pink since I don’t.I also thought she wouldn’t be ” girly colors person” in general and I took comfort in the thought that if I don’t encourage her to be girly girl in the process of creating her taste, she’ll be fine.As often happens in…

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Guilt free and healthy cake!

By Annie Holland / August 19, 2010

  Isn’t that everyone’s dream? To eat as much cake as you want and to be healthy? Since I often get ” yeah, your cakes are great, but the calories, ah…the calories…” I decided for a change  to post something I call ” a guilt free fruit cake“, which is my answer to my husband’s…

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Making gum paste gerbera daisy

By Annie Holland / August 13, 2010

Remember my “wedding cake to remember”? 🙂 Well, I had quite the trouble with the Gerbera daisy cutter I ordered from Global sugar art and I definitely don’t recommend it, but because I was in a hurry to make the flowers for the wedding cake, I had to improvise. Here is a quick and inexpensive…

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Belated feature !

By Annie Holland / June 10, 2010

And I am featured again in Cakewrecks.com ( in the Sunday sweets cakes posts) with my Tinkerbell cake!Don’t ask me why I found out 1 months later, I’m trying to keep up with my work, but my work is not keeping up with me! 😉 http://www.cakewrecks.com/2010/05/sweet-reading-sweets.html A nice feeling, to know people appreciate what you…

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Kung Fu Panda cake- the final battle!

By Annie Holland / May 30, 2010

Tomorrow is my first day off in a long long time and I am planing to do nothing! Still , I wanted to share with you the final stage of the Kung Fu Panda cake, and since tomorrow I’m doing nothing, there is no better way than today to finish a job! So here it…

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Kung Fu panda cake teaser 4

By Annie Holland / May 28, 2010

Almost there!Some landscape for the bottom tier… Live it’s much more impressive, but I am really in a hurry now, so I can’t focus on taking good pictures! The colors are blending much better and also there is a really nice ” sponge” effect with the sky…which is totally lost on the pictures 🙁 Here…

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Kung Fu panda cake teaser 3

By Annie Holland / May 28, 2010

A very late night yesterday!The good news is that the panda is drying better than expected ( for fondant) and I think I’ll be able to put it on the cake and for it to stay the way it should! The bad news is …it is extremely hot! It’s almost 100 F and no matter…

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Kung Fu Panda cake teaser 2

By Annie Holland / May 27, 2010

Still working on the Kung Fu panda cake .I wish I had the time to start a couple of days ago! The fondant is taking a long time to dry up, I didn’t have the time to make gum paste ( I always make from scratch), so now I’m stressing out if it will hold…

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Kung Fu Panda cake teaser 1

By Annie Holland / May 27, 2010

Wondering how the cake is coming along? Well, as I announced already, my son chose design No. 1, so this is what I am working on: And it’s supposed to look like this guy: Now, I have no problem making it identical if I can add to the shape gradually. Unfortunately the whole thing has…

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Kung Fu Panda birthday cake- project ( updated!)

By Annie Holland / May 26, 2010

Ok, I am totally at loss here!  I have these 2 ideas for Kalin’s Birthday cake, I made the designs but I don’t know which one to choose. And I literally have to start NOW! Which one do you think looks better? ( never mind the drawing, we are talking about the ideas) 1. –…

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