Hello Sugar Friends!
Wow, time is flying by so fast this holiday season, I cannot believe it! Are you ready? I am not even close to being ready. My tree is standing in my den undecorated, my mantle and front door decorations are piled in my foyer just hoping someone who passes by will take the time to put them in their place. I have about three gifts purchased: none wrapped. And I haven’t even begun to think about my holiday baking. So that pretty much makes this year just like every other previous year, LOL. Somehow I always manage to get it all done in time.
Part of the reason I have been so busy is our preparing all of the wonderful holiday tutorials we are adding to the online school this month. I’m very excited about all of them, and wanted to share with you these beautiful projects.
We have over six new full-length exclusive tutorials going into the online school this month. Here is a sampling of just some of them:
Want to take a closer look at some of them?
This cake shows the popular buttercream petal technique. It’s so easy to do, and has a very striking result. (In the video tutorial, I show how to match up that tricky back seam.)
One single gelatin poinsettia is all this beauty needs. Yes, that flower is made from plain household gelatin. The process is super easy and fast, so you can get a large impressive flower ready for your cake in just a few hours.
These flowers are also made of gelatin, but it uses a different technique. The flower shown above is made using gelatin texturing sheets. These red and green fantasy poinsettias are done by making a thin floral wire frame, and dipping each petal into the gelatin mixture. Sort of like dipping a bubble wand when you were a kid. Fun.Fun.Fun.
I also love the little dashes of color on the cake sides as well.
A little disco dust makes these fun flowers pop.
Those of you who have followed my blog for a while may remember I made a version of this cake a few years back. But I modernized it a little bit for the new video tutorial.
This cake is iced in buttercream with a stucco effect applied over that. Dazzling gum paste snowflakes, and fun decorative balls on wires make this a true winter wonderland stunner.
And one of my absolute favorite things: individual desserts. In this video I show how to create the cups from chocolate to get a few different looks. We fill them with different flavors of mousse, and plate them with easy sauces and garnishing techniques. We also have a video on how to make all the fun decorations you see on top.
Raspberry sauce and mousse in a plain chocolate cup, adorned with a chocolate transfer ring and gold leaf.
A crinkled white chocolate heart cup filled with strawberry mousse with strawberry sauce and another chocolate transfer decoration.
Don’t you love the polka dot affect on this cup? And to make it even more fun it sits atop a smaller cup turned upside down. Polka dot discs and chocolate curls finish off the top.
This would be a perfect dessert to finish off a Valentine’s Day meal.
More polka dots in the reverse colors. Two of my favorite dessert garnishes: chocolate squiggles on top and a piece of bubble sugar accents the plate.
This one is our grand finale in the video. We turn off the lights and show you how to make a flaming strawberry topper for this elegant dessert.
Hopefully some of these will help give you ideas for your own holiday celebrations. We have full-length video tutorials on all of these, plus more, in the online school. In addition we are offering a bonus tutorial to everyone who joins our online school through December 15.
Get a downloadable copy of a step-by-step tutorial for this precious gingerbread snowman and Christmas tree topper. It will be yours to keep forever, even if you ever leave the school. (Which of course we hope you don’t!)
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I hope you are enjoying your holiday season, and it’s not too stressful. (Yeah, right LOL) I will be back with another post in a few days to share with you some great holiday tutorials.
Happy caking!
Sharon
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