Cake Decorating Forum

Hi! I spent last evening covering 40 Oreos with Wilton candy melts for my son's preschool party. His preschool is a peanut-free zone.
I brought a bag of the candy melts into his school and the teache ...

If the recipe contains salt (and most baking recipes do), I would use unsalted butter.

I think cream cheese icing goes well with just about anything...I've been known to eat leftover icing straight out of the fridge with a spoon.

I made chocolate cupcakes last month with cream cheese ...

I think cream cheese icing goes well with just about anything...I've been known to eat leftover icing straight out of the fridge with a spoon.

I made chocolate cupcakes last month with cream cheese ...

I make a banana layer cake with cream cheese frosting and fresh sliced strawberries for the filling (a Reagan Dailey recipe) -- yum!

I have also been know to crush Oreos and mix them with cream che ...

Hi! I'd just like to point out that all buttermilk is "fat-free" as it's what's left over after cream is churned into butter. So all the fat has gone into the butter. Modern buttermilk from the sup ...

Can you get ahold of a copy of "What to Expect the First Year"? At the back of the book are severa; recipes including a first birthday cake (I think it's carrot). Their recipes are always very "crun ...

I can't speak to the decorating part, but reading your post, it struck me that if your daughter loves bananas why not make a banana (flavored) cake? I don't know many infants who like coconut.

I haven't used that specifically, but I know what you're takling about. I'm not sure if it would work. Strawberries bleed and I have toppped cakes with fresh sliced strawberries and a glaze of melte ...

Thank you! I would have never thought of putting straws in first. You all are brilliant!

I want to put some of those wire springy curls coming out of a cake with beads hanging from them, but I don't know if I can just use wire from Home Depot? Or do I need to find some sort of food-grade ...

They covered the bite with crumb coat and black fondant.

1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 to 2 cups confectioners sugar, sifted
finely grated zest of 2 lemons
juice of 1 lemon (approx. 2 1/2 tbsp)

Gradually beat in the sugar and the combined le ...

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If you are using fresh ricotta you will need to drain it -- it has more moisture than the plastic containers in the supermarket. Just line a wire strainer with paper towels and drain the chees ...

I guess I'll have to save my decorating ambition for another cake. I'd love to experiment, but the frosting ingredients are on the expensive side and with 4 more weeks of gestational diabetes to go b ...