Edible Paints

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!

Three Halloween lollipops with haunted house, black cat, and jack-o'-lantern designs

Halloween lollipops

Devin Michael Housman loved Halloween. As a child, Devin was diagnosed with autism. The Housman family—mother Yvonne, father Jim, and older sister Briana—faced many …

Kim Simons standing beside a life-sized deer cake sculpture in an autumnal scene.

How and why I made a life-sized deer cake

“Would you be interested in making a life-sized mounted deer cake for my hunting camp’s one-hundredth anniversary?” I’ve had many an offbeat conversation with my friend …

A red fondant cake topped with sculpted lovebird birds on a branch with flowers and hearts

Make a Valentine’s Day lovebird cake topper out of modeling chocolate

A lot of people look at what I do and say, “I could never do that.” While that might be true on a professional level, that doesn’t mean that you can’t let your creative spirit …

A translucent blue sugar sculpture featuring a painted tree with intricate, colorful swirling patterns in the background, mounted on a matching blue sugar base.

Make sugar like glass

I’ve always loved to sculpt, and this is the skill that has primarily gotten me into most of my competitions on Food Network. But while shooting “Holiday Wars” in 2019, I became …

A gingerbread tree of life cookie decorated with colorful frosting leaves in a rainbow gradient

Make this gingerbread Tree of Life

Remember when we were kids and used to climb trees? This isn’t something you see often anymore. At least, I don’t. But back in the day around my neighborhood in Liberty, NY, …

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 colorful painted elephant design on edible paper with blue and purple stripes on a vibrant background

Make this psychedelic, edible elephant

Since I got into the competitive cake world in 2010, I have been amazed at the technological advances that have been made in edible art. A wide variety of new, mind-blowing products have been …

Two edible-paper bunnies painted in Van Gogh style with a swirling, colorful background

Paint these van Gogh bunnies on edible smart sheets

One of my favorite things is looking at the stars on a clear summer night. Whenever I do, I think about Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting. Of course, when most people think of van Gogh, …