Things Are Achanging

The world of cake seems to be changing once again. Where the prevailing norm was over the top masterpieces only a year or two ago it seems like the tide is now changing. More and more cakes are becoming streamlined modern art pieces and if the newest offerings from Charm City Cakes, Jessica Harris or Cake Central magazine I'm in love! In no way am I knocking the grandiose cakes we've become accustomed to; they're great and I love making them. But I must admit I'm captivated by these sleek museum quality edible art pieces. 

Online Classes

As always there is a wealth of info available on the web for newbie and professional bakers and decorators; some really good, some...... One of the best resources out right now, especially for those of us on a budget, is Craftsy.com.

Craftsy is an interactive online crafting community where you can buy video classes and photo workshops covering a variety of crafting genres for $10-$40. After your onetime payment the class is yours forever and can be viewed from any Internet enabled device. I LOVE their iPad app! It makes viewing the videos crisp and easy.

They are currently offering about a dozen cake decorating classes from cake royalty such as Colette Peters, Marina Souza, James Rosselle, Lauren Kitchens, Richard Ruskell and Joshua John Russell. Most classes cost $39.99 but they often run sales and discounts making them as low as $19.99. Occasionally they'll even offer a free mini class.

For people looking for stellar instruction within an affordable budget this is definitely the way to go.

www.craftsy.com

Looking For Lucky #500

On our way to 500 likes! To sweeten the pot our 500th "liker" ( is that even a word lol?) will receive their choice of goodies from CAKE!

Tutorials

While CAKE! is under construction I've been appeasing my creative bug with knitting and crochet projects. I'm thinking of posting some cake/dessert, event and craft tutorials. My question is where do I start. Any suggestions?

Under Construction

Things around the studio have slowed down considerably now that we're going through a massive overhaul. Not only are we renovating and updating our kitchen, but we're creating an imaginative show space for our event planning consultations and dessert events. Along with creating a new space CAKE! will be getting a bit of a makeover itself. How exciting! Here's some photos of the work in progress.

Welcome Hubert Bertram!

Here is the newest arrival over at CakeDDS. This baby shower cake came out so cute we decided to name him lol.

I've Got Papers

In my eternal quest to learn EVERYTHING and become a full fledged "celebration specialist" I can now officially add CERTIFIED WEDDING/EVENT planner to my roster of awesomeness! I am soooo excited. Parties and food have always been best friends in my family growing up so it only seemed natural when people would ask me to help plan stuff for them (and I think being kinda OCD made me good at it). My love of throwing (and attending!) parties is actually what spawned my dessert company. Now as a graduate of The Sheffield School I am officially a planner. I can't wait to offer this new service to my clients.