For some odd reason, I never consider my icing sugar inventory when I start a baking project. I just assume my cupboard has an infinite supply of icing sugar. So nothing grinds my gears more than it being way past midnight (me thinking that’s an ideal time to start the frosting) and discovering I do […]
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Baking Pet Peeve #1: Running Out of Icing Sugar
September 16, 2008; 12:38 am
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Mini Pink and Black Dress Cake
August 8, 2008; 9:12 am
There’s a mini cake under that mini skirt!
This is actually a prototype for an engagement party I’m doing in October and so far… FAIL:
1. The top part made of fondant kept flopping over (solution: use chocolate?)
2. The skirt shape is a bit off (solution: will shave it a bit for an A-line skirt)
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Pricing Your Baked Products
July 22, 2008; 4:24 pm
I found this article helpful, if anything for the friendly peptalk. From The Business of Cake Decorating #9: Pricing your cakes by Earlene Moore…
Of all the comments (with a question) I hear over and over and over again is. “I feel funny about charging people for what I do. I know it takes my time […]

