Find a weeklong tribute to Mardi Gras recipes at From Glitter to Gumdrops. Coming up: mask cookies, fried pickles, mini beignets and more. First up is a cupcake version of the King’s cake. Find the recipe HERE.
Egg Carton Packaging
I love love love this idea for packaging mini cupcakes, and I will be borrowing it: egg cartons. So clever. Find it HERE at Prunille fait son show.
Mardi Gras Party Food
Find a spread of Mardi Gras recipes HERE at Southern Living, including the classic King Cake.
Chocolate Butterflies
I’m loving the colorful icing to contrast with these delicate chocolate butterflies. Find the step-by-step how-tos for making chocolate butterfly cupcake toppers, full of handy tips, HERE at Everything Old.
Golden Chocolate Rocks!
See what I did there? Chocolate that is golden does, indeed, rock. And these look like gold rocks. (Groan.) Learn to make golden chocolate sponge toffee nuggets HERE at Paper Plate and Plane, created for the Iron Craft challenge: … Read More...
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Flower Cupcake Toppers
Learn how to make these flower cupcake toppers HERE at Berlin Patch. I’ve been so intrigued by cupcake toppers with height lately, I just find these to be gorgeousness on a stick.
Kids Birthday Cake Ideas
I’m loving this roundup of birthday cakes for kids (or adults?) HERE at Martha Stewart. Shown are the Walk of Fame cake, the peanut butter and jelly cookie cake and the lollipop garden cake.
How to Frost a Cake
Love love love this step-by-step photo tutorial on how to frost a cake from Whisk Kid. See it HERE.
Real Red Velvet Cake
Adding this to the “stuff I didn’t know” pile: the eight essentials for an authentic red velvet cake. Find it HERE at The Stir.
Pom Pom Heart Cupcake Topper Tutorial
Remember these pom pom heart cupcake toppers from Hank and Hunt I was so nuts about? Guess what? By some mind-reading miracle, Jenny from Hank and Hunt created a tutorial right HERE at The Sweetest Occasion.
Chocolate Truffle Kisses
Yum! Learn to make your own Kisses from chocolate truffles HERE at the Dollhouse Bake Shoppe.
A Valentine’s Day Sweets Roundup
From me. For you. Well, for you and my readers over at my blog. In case you need some last minute Valentine’s baking inspiration… a roundup of all the Valentine’s cookies and marshmallow treats from my archives, with tutorials. … Read More...
SuperHero Party
Check out these awesome Super Here cupcake toppers at My Chic Life. Love this idea. And by the way, the menu served at that party is exactly the menu I want at my next birthday party. Exactly. Take note.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries, but not Strawberries
Yep, that’s cake under there. Learn to make chocolate-dipped “cakeberries” HERE at the Dollhouse Bake Shoppe.
How to Make Heart Strawberries for Valentine’s Day
M and M Crescent Rolls
Oh, I gave away the secret stash of M and Ms in these easy, clever crescent rolls from Make and Takes. Learn to make them HERE.
Conversation Heart Macarons
Oh the magic that is edible markers. And oh the magic that is the elusive macaron that I’ve yet to master. Bubble and Sweet has. Check out these conversation heart macarons created for the MacTweets February Valentine’s challenge.
Rose Cake or, Gateau De Roses
Check out Nadege’s version of, the Gateau de roses, HERE at Prunille fait son show. I love seeing such happy inspirations!
How to Use Sanding Sugar
Callye of The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle has a great video tutorial and lots of tips for adding sanding sugar to the edges of cookies HERE at the University of Cookie.
Nilla Wafer Girls
How adorable, simple, cute and clever are these? (I mean for the answer to be “very.”) Learn to make Nilla wafer little girls HERE at Flexible Dreams. And if you like these, be sure to check out THESE.