Dessert-o-licious

As the weather here in NY starts to cool down, I’ve got one thing on my mind and that’s Gingerbread Houses! Luckily for me, so did City Harvest who teamed up with pastry chefs around the city to set up Gingerbread Houses in the lobby of Le Parker Meridien on 56th street in Manhattan. There [...]

Now that we learned all sorts of piping techniques, it was time to learn how to cover a cake! After all, in 2 lessons time we were going to start working on our final wedding cakes and we had yet to roll out a piece of fondant! We started by covering a styrofoam cake round [...]

After finishing up with our Marzipan fruits, we moved right on into learning how to pipe borders, rose buds, and full and half roses. So much time was spent on learning how to make shells, reverse shells, rosettes, fleur-de-lys, rope, garlands, ruffles, swags, bows and star flowers. After every class I would leave with my [...]

And just like that, the last course of school began, cake decorating. We started the course with a full lesson on marzipan. Marzipan is a paste that is made from almonds and sugar that is usually then formed into various shapes, including fruits, vegetables and flowers. A typical American recipe for marzipan consists of almond [...]

Don’t these just make you want to bundle up with your cutie? I love how the cookies are placed on the sugar like snow! They simultaneously make me want to sit by the fireplace and go out to holiday parties! Originally posted on Flickr by bossacafez.

Flickr Fridays are back! And what better way than by remembering all of the good times we had last weekend. Gobble Gobble! Originally posted on Flickr by Lala512.

Tonight I went to a cupcake class at the Brooklyn Kitchen with my friend Cherryspoon. It was tons of fun and I got to play around with lots of different fillings. The instructor had pre-made some chocolate and vanilla cupcakes, but she also made some extras in the beginning of the class. She had also [...]

I love to bake, but I never know what to do with all of the finished products, so I wind up not baking as often as I would. But, I just came upon the Drop In & Decorate site and I’m very suddenly inspired. Since Mother’s Day is just around the corner, wouldn’t it be [...]

I’ve always been drawn to those beautifully drawn cookies in the stores and wondered how to make them, but they look so difficult to do. Apparently, the secret is royal icing, which is basically all egg whites and confectioners sugar that you beat until is reaches a solid enough consistency that you can pipe it [...]

As much as I love cookie and cake decorating, I feel like everyone is doing it. One area that I love equally as much but I feel isn’t as popular yet is brownie decorating! I just came across this great book by Wilton Brownie Fun! I can’t wait to get it and try it all [...]