Lost!

I can't find my camera!  I'm really sorry and sad and I hope I find it sooN!

Black and white cookies

Sorry but I never got a chance to download the pics from my cookies! Sorry I will post it soon

I chose cupcakes!

Sorry for the "huge difference" in my so-far posts. (Cake and then cupcakes...I should have done the cookies) But I used box-cake mix and even tubbed frosting from the store (a rare thing but it was ok)

So I don't have actual directions and pics about everything but I have some tips and the end result (because I was doing them with my friend and didn't want to stop to take pics of everything) so here it goes:

so I learned that sprinkles make simple designs on the cupcake makes it 10 times better!

And to avoid messing up the cupcake frosting, practice with the tip on something like the frosting cap so you can scrape it off when your done and put it right back into the piping bag!

sorry if the cupcakes aren't like amazing...I was making them with my friend so I was just having fun :)

I am going to make black and white cookies soon!

Cookies or Cake?

Today I am either going to make New York style black and white cookies or strawberry cupcakes (with a box mix :0 I usually never use box mixes for cake) The cookies could be amazing! Or they could be nothing compared to the real black and white cookies. But I'd also like to post some tips for using box cake mixes for cupcakes and just how to make them even better!

post about the results soon!

A recent cake...

Here is a picture of a cake that I made recently and a few tips for fondant and cake for beginners, from a beginner:

now I know, its looks a little sloppy, but it's my first fondant-decorated cake...like a said beginners.
Here are some tips and lessons learned from this cake:

• If you're using a fancy cake book and it calls for like fancy tools like fondant smoothers and super things-unless you want to make a super perfect cake like professionally, improvise and it'll turn out great. 
• READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE RECIPE BEFORE DOING. Yeah, it helps...a lot.
• have everything set out before you do it, like don't run around to find plastic wrap for your fondant stripes to sit under to prevent drying out-they dry fast, have the materials. 
• Think about the occasion. Do you really need a huge 9 by 11" cake like the recipe says? no. you usually won't, we haven't even finished halfway through mine and its time for it to be thrown away :(
• Have a dish of water near when applying the fondant to your cake so it can stick, have it slightly brushed with water of "syrup" (not really syrup) before and have the dish for slight dabs of water on the cake for for-sure sticking. 
• Don't completely follow the recipe, my fondant measurements were completely estimated instead of having the perfect "9oz of white" "120 oz of purple" plus more and I didn't have nearly enough! Buy hey, my cake got covered! The recipe is only...an outline!

love to bake?

love to bake? I sure do! I will be posting recipes, techniques, and just beginner things that I am just figuring out myself! But trust me, you can trust me! I have worked with fondant, cake, frosting, homemade bread, homemade bagels (delicious!), french macaroons, and just anything that I feel like eating...but not buying!