Monday, April 27, 2009

More Betty Crocker

I just finished rapping another series of Betty Crocker/Howdini.com videos. This time around we shot 17 in total (18 last time around). My favorites include a barn with farm animals, and cupcake jungle animals.
Some of the previous videos (in addition to being in their how-to section and on howdini.com) are now included in a new more interactive part of Betty's site : The Mixer - http://www.bettycrocker.com/themixer/recipes/default.aspx
I will post links on my Decorate page as soon as the videos are up.

Amanda's Hollywood cake

Amanda's use of piped buttercream, her choice of color palette, and the precision of her Chocolate Method appliques yielded an amazing cake.


Just some of Edith's creations




Felice's 3-D cakes


Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Bunny Cupcakes


I've been working on an idea for bunny cupcakes - instead of just making a face or a freestanding rabbit placed on top, both of which I've done before and are cute, I wanted to make the cupcake the body. I made a chocolate head and tail but couldn't figure out how to make the feet work on this round form so I decided to pipe some buttercream grass around the bottom edge - it looks like the bunny is sitting in a field. I plan on reworking the proportions and redesigning the face but I went ahead and posted the directions on the Step-by-Step section of our Decorate page.