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I've been absolutely devouring The Wedding Chicks website lately! They have amazing DIYs and free downloads for fun printables & custom monograms; it's one of the best wedding resources I've found, bar none. I thought I'd share this gorgeous Ombre Sugar Hearts tutorial by Erica O’Brien Cake Design and Brooke Allison Photography with you today...
Go to The Wedding Chicks DIY Ombre Sugar Hearts tutorial for step-by-step instructions and more pretty pics!
I have some unbelievably exciting and crazy news! I couple of weeks ago I received an email from the (wonderful) Senior Editor of Martha Stewart Weddings and the subject of the email included the words, "Guest Blogger". I about flipped. After nervously reading through the email (over and over) I freaked out and tried to contain my enthusiasm as I responded to her inquiry with a "Yes please" and a "I'm no professional, are you sure?" - just to make sure there hadn't been a mistake. Well, the ensuing email exchange was amazing and delightful and charming and I'm thrilled to report that my first guest post for Martha Stewart Weddings' The Bride's Guide went up yesterday! You can see it HERE! I'm just over the moon about working with MSW on this fashion cake series. The cakes will be inspired by wedding fashion which is so great because of the whimsical and creative weddings couples are having nowadays. For the first post, I made a bride and groom's cake inspired by the amazing Stella McCartney - this time it was the "Lucia" design from her Fall 2011 collection. Everyone from Kate Winslet to Gisele Bundchen was seen in these dresses and my cakes wanted to wear them too.
The groom's cake is triple dark chocolate ganache with a delicious chocolate buttercream (found on the Bride's Guide post) covered in cocoa powder and chocolate dots. The first tier of the bride's cake is vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream and the second tier is chocolate cake with salted caramel frosting, both with white chocolate dots all over. It was an adventure making these cakes... I still can't believe they made their debut on Martha Stewart Weddings! Now, what will I make for The Bride's Guide next month...?
Photographed by Sebastian Marin
Give me Sweetopia's glittery mask cookies over the traditional King Cake any Fat Tuesday...
She provides a fantastic tutorial too!
What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with a Valentino inspired red velvet cake! I adore Valentino's off the shoulder LRD from his Spring 2012 Resort Collection. Although I'd love to wear it for Valentine's Day, the best I could do was bake my own LRD, my little red dessert.
I used the red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting recipes from The Joy of Cooking. It turned out to be a delicious decision - very moist and not too sweet. After crumb coating the cake and letting it crust up a bit, I covered it in red buttercream fondant. The bows were a fun little project. I used a couple online tutorials to make (and re-make) the fondant bows. I let them firm up overnight on the bottom edge of my round baking pans so they formed the curve and could rest on the edge of the finished cake.
I just love Valentino's romantic red bows...
Like most of you, I've been following Coco+Kelley for a long time... Her blog is one of my daily reads and it never ceases to inspire me. So you can imagine how absolutely over the moon I was when the lovely Cassandra asked me to contribute to her amazing blog!! Cassandra is one of the sweetest, most amiable and charming ladies I've had the pleasure of meeting through my blog and I'm just thrilled to contribute to the inspirational venue she has created. For the Fall, I made some mini golden pumpkin pies, check them out over at Coco+Kelley!
