Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

 

 

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Hi all;

It’s already December…I can’t believe it. The year is almost over. It’ll be 2010 before we know it.

Have you got all of the presents? Are the stockings hung? Are the Christmas lights all blinking like they should?

Please remember the real reason for Christmas. We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Make Christmas a special time. It’s a time for family. It’s time for friends. It’s time for giving. It’s time for reflecting on … Continue Reading

Do you prefer butter or margarine?

This will make you think. I already stay away from margarine, but this just made my decision a little clearer……

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure
out what to do with this product to get their money back.
It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter.
How do you like it? They … Continue Reading

Ganache…pronounced gon-osh.

Here is one of my favorites. You can cover a cake with it, make truffle centers, and even whip it into a mousse-like filling for pastries or any dessert.

Ganache Recipe:
8 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, cut into small pieces
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoons cognac or brandy (optional)

Instructions: Place the chocolate in a medium sized bowl. Set aside. Heat the cream and butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Just barely to a boil. Immediately pour the boiling cream and butter mixture over the chocolate and allow it to … Continue Reading

Marshmallow Fondant Recipe

Did you try the poured fondant recipe from yesterday? Did you print it out if you didn’t? Well lets get ready for today’s lesson. The recipe that I’ll be sharing today is for the incredible Marshmallow Fondant, sometimes calles MMF in the cake circles. It’s easy to make, easy to use, and is much cheaper than the prepared brands of rolled fondant. Why do you share a recipe like this to make something that you sell in your store you may be asking yourself? I believe in being honest with my customers. This … Continue Reading

Sorry it’s been a while…

Good day;
We’ve taken a short vacation from blogging it seems for the last few weeks. Glad to be back. We’ve been working on some different projects and just haven’t found time to get on the blog. Thanks for still being here.
We’ve got a few icing recipes coming your way this week. We’ll start with one of the lesser known cake coverings. It’s kin to ganache. Not quite fondant, but not quite buttercream. It’s called Poured Fondant. It’s a common icing for petit-fours. It’s a self … Continue Reading

The FANPANS are here!

Alabama Crimson Tide Cake Pan

Arkansas Razorbacks Cake Pan

Auburn Tigers Cake Pan

Clemson Tigers Cake Pan

Florida Gators Cake Pan

Florida State FSU Seminoles Cake Pan

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Congratulations LSU Tigers. 2009 NCAA Baseball Champions.

Now you can celebrate this great accomplishment. Throw a big party. You’ll need sandwiches, chips, drinks, and a cake, and boy have we got the perfect LSU cake pan for you. It’s the new FANPAN line of silicone bakeware, and it’s in the shape of the LSU Tigers logo! It is purple, and it is approximately 11"x8". It’s perfect for all of those college gameday parties. Make cake, brownies, ice cream, Jell-O desserts, and much more. It goes from freezer to oven with no worries.

Better yet, take a look at the entire line of college logo cake … Continue Reading

The new Wilton 2010 Yearbook is here!

It’s finally here. The new Wilton Yearbook is in stock now. Hurry, because we don’t have very many of them in this first shipment, and they will be gone in a day or two. We’ll be getting more, but we don’t yet know when.
A great cake makes any celebration more fun! There’s no better place to find that unforgettable decorated cake or dessert than this new edition of the 2010 Wilton Yearbook.

It’s our biggest Wilton Yearbook ever, with more than 220 designs for … Continue Reading

Wilton 2010 Decorating Yearbook

The newest issue of the Wilton Yearbook will be arriving this week! Stay tuned to the blog for updated information on the 2010 installment of the Wilton Yearbook. We’ll have a limited supply of them at first, so they’ll go fast.
We’ll make them available as soon as we have them.
Send us an e-mail if you’d like to reserve one. We’ll be sure you get yours!

Thanks For Your Service

To all of the brave men and women that have fought and died for the freedoms that everyone in this great country enjoy today. We salute you! We are all able to go where we want and do what we wish because of the sacrifice that our fallen veterans have made.

To all of them, thanks again.