July 13, 2019 It is a Saturday night. As I sit here on my laptop working on creating a second blog solely dedicated to cake decorating and sugar art, I also decided to create a secondary Instagram page to link to. This has been an ongoing process on and off since last year. Several formats later, hundreds of changes, and
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This was my entry for the Silver Cakes competition at the 25th Anniversary of the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show. I got 2nd place and these are the people responsible for making the opportunity possible. This was only the second ribbon I received in these short 5 years of entering this competition. I was so proud of this for three
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I was reminded this past week, as I was updating a website dedicated to cake decorating and sugar art classes, that my time to complete a competition piece is slowly dwindling down. On the Facebook group I belong to we discuss that very thing almost on a daily basis as other competitors talk about their projects and the issues they
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This cake decorating topic is about overlays and inlays. A very basic cake decorating and sugar art technique that has many possibilities. Instead of posting individual pictures I have included a power point presentation/video attached. Thank you for stopping by. Happy Caking! Suzanne
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When I started this blog over 2 years ago the main purpose was to share my love of cake decorating and sugar art with others who were like-minded. As time has gone by it has become a little bit cake, a little bit sugar art and a little bit about myself. 🙂 One of the things that always leaves me
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April 27. 2017 One of the effects of depression and anxiety is loss of motivation or desire. This can spill over into everything that a person does. Something simple as making a decision on what to eat for dinner can seem overwhelming when it never did before. I have been involved in cake decorating and sugar art for almost 10
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Today’s post is going to be a power point video with some basic information about cake decorating and sugar art. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend! Happy caking! Suzanne
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Days of Sharing – ICES (International Cake Exploration Societé) I have found that some of the best ways to meet other cake & sugar art minded people is by attending a class in person. Granted some classes are rather costly, especially if you have to factor in transportation, hotel, and food on top of the class fees. So one of
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When I entered the world of cake decorating and sugar art over 8 years ago little did I know how much I would grow to love this art form. I actually started down this path by chance when the cake I ordered from a local bakery did not turn out as expected. I was an extremely busy stay at home
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In my pursuit of cake knowledge one of things that always intimidates me is color. Yes, I know it sounds like such a simple thing until your trying to put a project together. Then I begin to doubt myself like I’ve never seen color before in my life. 🙂 I normally sketch things out in pencil and pen because I
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