Cake Decorating

Super Mario cake with a Mario figurine emerging from a green pipe on a tiered dirt-mound base.

Check Out Kim’s Super Mario Cake!

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  • February 22, 2020
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Customized for a local birthday party....Thanks to Maressa Valentin-Rivera at The Sweet Chalet in Sanford, FL for the excellent edible paints!

A three-tiered winter-themed cake features white fondant decorated with embossed snowflakes and pine branches, a middle tier painted with a blue birch forest scene, and piped sugar pine trees dusted with white "snow" on the top and bottom tiers, illuminated by blue LED lights underneath the upper layer.

Latest Cakes…

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  • December 19, 2023
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Made for this past weekend…a birthday and a wedding!

A cupcake topped with a large pink modeling chocolate rose and colorful sprinkles

Make a beautiful rose out of modeling chocolate

It’s safe to say that this past month has been a challenge. I hope everyone reading this is safe and making the best of the situation. If you’re one of those people who is considered …

A white candle cake centerpiece decorated to look like a large candle

Make this candle cake centerpiece

Something happened while I snuck up on people as part of Burn Brae Mansion’s Dark Forest Fright Walk in Glen Spey, NY this past October… The holiday season snuck up on me! …

A sculpted cake designed as a freshly baked square pepperoni pizza inside an open cardboard box, with melted cheese bubbles, glossy curled pepperoni slices glistening with rendered fat, white onion pieces peeking through, and a golden-brown crust.

Make this Pelkey’s Tavern Detroit-style pizza cake

“Hey! Would you consider doing a Sip and Paint class over at Pelkey’s Tavern?” The question came from Shannon, a friend of mine who regularly attends my Sip and Paint …

A two-tiered cake with blue watercolor design, white frosting, and sugar flower decorations

Make this sapphire-blue cake

Whenever April comes around, I find myself thinking of the concept of renewal. It strikes me that the traditional April showers are Earth’s way of cleansing itself in preparation for the …

A sculpted cake depicting an Amazon rainforest scene with a toucan, sloth, and jaguar around a stream.

New Cake - Amazon Rainforest Cake

Grand Prize Divisional at the National Capital Area Cake Show 2016 and featured in ICES magazine.

Steampunk wolf cake diorama with a white wolf howling at the moon with clockwork lower body.

Steampunk Wolf Cake

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  • November 19, 2014
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The Steam Punk Sugar Geeks Have arrived! We've traveled through time and space to bring you the steampunkiest of cake creations! Sweet treats created by some of the geekiest cake artists around. So...

THE SEA TURTLE CAKE

The story behind my SEA TURTLE CAKE. Check this out, and please subscribe to my YouTube channel. THANKS!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjq6O14Yq1s&feature=youtu.be

A hyper-realistic sculpted cake of a classic cheeseburger and fries — thick dark brown beef patty with bright yellow melted cheese and red ketchup, layered between pale green lettuce and red tomato slice, topped with a golden-brown sesame seed bun, all on a platter piled with golden-brown french fries.

Why not make a hamburger out of cake?

There are few things in the world that smell as good as a hamburger sizzling on a grill, and I say this even though I really can’t digest red meat. What says “summer” more than …

Wine Barrel Cake & Bumbles Christmas Cake

Hand-painted mini diorama of a red fox and raccoon beside a hollow log.

Woodland Creatures Class

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  • December 21, 2014
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I'll be teaching a class at Cake Fest in Lafayette Louisiana this coming February 21st. I'll be teaching "Woodland Creatures" http://www.cakefestla.com/classes/saturday/