I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I will be taking very few orders over the next several months… why you might ask? Well that’s the good news! Last Friday, Brandon and I got in the car to go to Atlantic City for the weekend. After we passed the exit [...]
It has been a very busy week! I just finished up a large order of blue crab sugar cookies and I’m working on the final plans for a cookie decorating class I’m teaching here at work! The cookies are for a wedding this weekend. The bride-to-be wanted crab shaped cookies, iced in a medium blue royal icing [...]
I wanted to blog about everything I’ve been up to lately and I know I haven’t posted a UTT, so I figured I’d roll it into one. I’m sure you’ve heard it a million times, but practice really does make perfect. If you are a perfectionist like I am, you want it to come out [...]
Well not quite yet, but I am so close! I’m still working out a few details and I have some pages to finish, but I’m so excited I figured I’d push it through. Once I finish, it will be back on my domain, so when you type in www.karascakery.com, it will show up instead of the [...]
I may not be a hoarder by clinical standards, but I like to buy/collect/hoard anything colorful and related to crafts/baking. I don’t decorate our home with rainbow colors, or wear rainbow colored clothing. I just like to decorate colorful confections and create colorful paper products. I have a giant box of multicolored cardstock. It may [...]
After rave reviews of a recent batch of peanut butter brownies – I figured I’d share the recipe with you since it isn’t a secret or anything. Here is everything you will need! 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/3 cup margarine, soft 2/3 cup white sugar 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 1/2 teaspoon vanilla [...]
While I cover hardly any of my cakes in fondant, that doesn’t mean I don’t like to make it or use it. I just prefer simple buttercream cakes. However, I recently covered a wedding cake in fondant and decided to make my own so that it tasted better. I had one of two options: marshmallow [...]
Yes I’m finally back from my Vegas, beach, wedding extravaganza vacation. After cleaning up my WP dashboard (aka marking 67834567 comments as spam) here I am to write a new post – which I’m sure you’ve been eagerly awaiting. I don’t have a Useful Tip Tuesday (other than don’t spend more than 3-4 days in Vegas [...]
There are a few instances in baking and decorating when a dam is extremely helpful. One: When filling and frosting a cake. You have the bottom layer of your cake and you would usually just spread your filling over the top then place the top layer of cake on top of that. Well… what if [...]
If you asked me to do a shaped cake a year ago… I wouldn’t have agreed until I found a shaped cake pan which, as you can imagine, can be quite limiting. If you’ve ever watched Ace of Cakes or Cake Boss, they stack layers of cake and frosting and then use their giant cake knives [...]