I’ve finished teaching 3 cake decorating courses at the Michael’s Arts and Crafts in North Brunswick and they were a lot of fun. I will be teaching Course 3 in January so I decided to make another display cake to put up in the store. I used a lot of the techniques that are taught in Course 3. The cake is covered in white fondant and the Poinsettia design was done using a technique called brush embroidery. A blue fondant ribbon borders the bottom of the cake and little blue snowflakes were piped on the side.

So about a year ago I was accepted to be a Wilton Method Instructor (WMI), however it wasn’t until recently that I found an opening available in my area. WMI’s are cake decorating instructors that have gone through the all three Wilton Courses and are certified by Wilton to teach the Wilton method of cake decorating through. [...]

Florida inspired birthday cake with an airbrushed tropical sunset scene and a blue seashell fondant border.

I recently made a cake that looked like the Atlantis hotel for a bridal shower on Long Island. The bride and groom, Heather and Rob, are getting married at the Atlantis in the Bahamas and the mother-in-law to be asked me to make a cake that looked just like it including the flying fish fountain which is where the ceremony is going to be.

One of my best friend’s got married recently and I really wanted to do something special for her. Her and her new hubby both love to travel and travel was the “theme” for the wedding. They have been many places together and they plan to go on a cruise around the Mediterranean for their honeymoon. [...]

 
We threw a bridal shower for one of my best friends this weekend. The theme of the bridal shower was “Summer Camp” since the bride and groom met working at a day camp. The bride also used to go to sleep away camp every summer while growing up and one of her favorite camp songs was [...]

For one of my best friend’s bridal shower’s we decided to make the theme designer handbags since she is so fond of them. I of course had to make a designer handbag cake to go with it. I actually made two different cakes, one was a replica of the Louis Vuitton “Speedy 30″ handbag and the other was the COACH Madeline handbag.

 
For my good friend’s bridal shower I decided to make these elegant cupcakes with a fun Wall-E topper. Both my friend and I have a strong affection for the movie Wall-E so I knew she would love this custom topper. Both Wall-E and Eve were hand molded out of fondant and then an airbrush [...]

This was a cake for my husband’s birthday. He loves the band Duran Duran and one of his favorite songs by them has the line “You shine like the midnight sun”. I made one of his favorite cakes, what I call the Witch’s Brew (coffee, cinnamon, and chocolate swirl), with chocolate frosting and covered it [...]

      
A friend of mine moved to DC this summer so I brought her these cupcakes as a housewarming gift. The cake flavor is one I invented called the “Witch’s Brew”. Years ago when we both worked at Dunkin Donuts we used to serve a drink called the Witch’s Brew during the fall. The [...]