Making the world a little sweeter one pastry tip at at time.
Pearl beads for borders are beautiful on both fondant covered and buttercream frosted cakes. Creating them is simple using the various silicone bead making tools that are now available to cake decorators. Choices in beads include classic round styles, oval, faceted, or rose-shaped beads. The …read more
The person commissioned to do the wedding cake for wedding of HRH Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton is Fiona Cairns of Leicestershire. The wedding will take place on April 29, 2011. The wedding cake for the couple will be a traditional fruitcake, while the groom’s …read more
Hosted by the San Diego Cake Club, the event will take place inside the La Jolla Village Square Mall shopping center. This is part of the Annual Cake Show, which takes place from March 5 to March 6. Proceeds will benefit the Ronald McDonald House next to Rady’s Children’s Hospital.
What are the competition categories? The categories to enter are: Adult, Junior, Special Recognition, and Grand Wedding Cake. Each has its own entry form & requirements, and entry fees. For example, in the Junior section, you can enter as Pre-Junior (ages 4 to 8), Junior (ages 9 to 12), or Teen (ages 13 to 16).
For more info:
San Diego Cake Club
That Takes The Cake Sugar Art Show & Cake Competition at the North Austin Convetion Center, February 26 – 27. You can purchase a general pass for the event, or pick up tickets for the the screening of “Kings of Pastry.” From ‘That Takes the …read more
Looking for ideas for Halloween cakes, or a spooky-themed cake for the holidays? PastrySampler.com has lots of ideas for Halloween cakes, with pictures of examples of the many different ways you can pull a scary cake off successfully.
Via Modern Baking Magazine, a pictorial showing how to create a sculptured handbag cake.
I’ve received lots of orders, and lots of questions about that bag in recent weeks. For those of you still wondering what a ‘striper bag’ is, it is an insert placed inside a pastry bag – that has two separate pockets for different colors of …read more
Can’t make this one even though it’s in my backyard but the 2010 ICES Convenion is at the Town & Country Resort and Convention Center. Registration, including hotel and convention costs.This year’s chosen charityHands on Classes list The Town & Country Resort is located at …read more
ABE 2010, March 21-23, 2010. Atlantic City, NJ.
This year for the Atlanta Bakery Expo, they will be having a ‘Cake Decorating Extravaganza’ with hands-on classes and a contest for tiered cakes, novelty cakes and sculptured cakes.
For information on the Cake Decorating Extravaganza, including rules, contest prizes and required forms, etc. visit their Cake Decorating Extravaganza Rules page.
Their ‘hands-on’ classes have such teachers as Mike Terry (buttercream figurines), Ronald & Marsha Winbeckler (sculptured cake & airbrushing), Ashley Vicos (tiered & scultptured cakes), Dan ‘Klecko’ McGleno (mother dough formulation), Linda Shonk (fondant techniques), Ron Ben-Isreal (cake decorating techniques & sugar paste flowers), Lynn Schurman (wedding cake contracts), and many more classes. For a listing of all the classes, visit their classes page with descriptions and any additional cost for the class.
Visit the ABE 2010 for registration, dates, directions and everything else.
http://www.abe2010.com/home.cfm
A pictorial gallery of wedding cakes from every state, from People’s Weddings Issue. People’s Weddings Issue