December | 2016 | Design Me a Cake

Hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season. I just wanted to share this basic tutorial on Christmas Day with everyone. It’s a simple tutorial and they
are such cute cupcakes that I couldn’t resist. They remind me of a cake I made
years ago. Anyone can make this cupcake. It’s for beginners and even those who
want something pretty and fast.

I used cupcake wrappers I found in my craft store and they match perfectly to the theme of Christmas. You can also use your favorite buttercream. If you never done buttercream I have a few recipes posted in the website. Click here to go to the Buttercream Recipes.

For the topper I used Sugar Crystals. You can find those in the baking section of supermarkets or the baking aisle of your favorite craft store.

To make the red buttercream, I use chefmaster
Super Red liqui-gel color. It has great pigment!
I usually get that here…click here

For the snowflake you can use any small snowflake cutter but you can also use
a star or maybe some holly leaves. This is an idea that you can change and make
yours. Just have fun with it! I do love the plungers because I can move fast cutting with them, but some companies have copied the original plunger and they are not that good. So be careful when you buy the imitations. I might do another Blog about this so people are aware. I only trust the original company because I have tested the imitation plungers and they do not work the same.

Here is the tutorial. Just Click to watch!

Hope you guys enjoy this simple tutorial and had a wonderful Christmas Day.
Until next time, ta ta!!

Edna 😉

I just finished a new tutorial. Since it’s Christmas time, I decided to do it about Snowflakes. Last year I made a beautiful cake for Christmas using some snowflake molds from the company Marvelous Molds. The video tutorial is posted at the end of the blog and I will post in the website too.

Here are the molds are use. These molds are awesome. There are many molds in the market but not all of them are great. When I look for molds, I want one that, not only it’s easy to use but I love when the gumpaste doesn’t stick to it.
These molds have a sharp edge and it cuts the gumpaste really easy too.
Plus now they make them transparent. This comes very handy since you can
place some gum glue on the back and place the mold directly on the cake and you can see exactly where you are placing it. I will do another tutorial showing you how to do that.

For this cake I attached some of the snowflakes as they where made but I also let some of them dry. I wanted them to look almost like they were falling from the sky and making a bed of snowflakes at the bottom.

The top of the cake was finished with snowflakes and a poinsettia gumpaste finished in super pearl dust and a gold center. I just added a section in the website with an advanced tutorial on how to make Poinsettias.
Here is the link to the Poinsettia Tutorial for those of you who are interested. Click here for the Poinsettia Tutorial.

I used the recipe for gumpaste I have posted in my website. Click here for Gumpaste Recipe.

You can see here how beautiful and delicate these snowflakes are. The tutorial is below. You can also visit Marvelous Molds for more info on these snowflakes.

You can visit Marvelous Molds and check their
beautiful molds.
Click here to visit Marvelous Molds.