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Ask BFFF: How to Bake a Cake

Before we begin, you’ll need a few supplies: a delicious cake recipe (you may just want to troll BFFF for a few options), an appropriate sized pan, an oven (of course!), a timer, a couple of toothpicks, and, if you’re feeling fancy, a cute apron. Plan it out: I’m a super planner, so I always [...]

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Professional Cake Decorating Advice from Sharon Wee Creations

Wee Love Baking is one of my favorite cake blogs. It also happens to be authored by my friend Sharon of Sharon Wee Creations. Lately, she has been running a series of ‘Ask Me Anything’ posts in which she answers her readers’ questions and shares her own experiences and techniques. She shares recipes and methods [...]

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How to Make Cake Flowers

Wow! These DIY Cake Flowers over at The Wedding Chicks might just be my favorite thing I have seen in a while! What a great DIY addition to any dessert. These flowers, simply made from fruit leathers, are easy, inexpensive, and eye catching. There are a number of events you could color coordinate these flowers for including birthday [...]

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Globe Sea Map Inspired Wedding Cake

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince, one said,  “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Man and the sea go way back, from chasing the white [...]

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Fruit Leather Pom Pom Cookie Decorations

I definitely consider baking to be another outlet for my creativity, and I’m always looking for fun new ways to change up the presentation of my go-to recipes. Since cookie decorating has become such an art form, I’m completely in awe of fun ideas like these Fruit Pom Pom Decorations found on Mensaje en una [...]

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Face Cake

We’ve all seen the store-bought cakes with faces on them which most definitely add a personalized touch to any event.  Lisa, from A Piece of Lisa, decided to make her own face cake with amazing results, and lucky for us, she has generously shared her secrets with us on her blog. This is actually a [...]

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St. Patrick’s Day Green and White Bundt Cake

Bundt cakes might just be joining the cupcake craze and I’m good with that! I love all of the fun, creative bundt cake ideas that are popping up and this St. Patrick’s Day Green and White Bundt Cake from Love From The Oven is a great example. Originally inspired by a Valentine’s Day version, this [...]

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How To Make a Fondant Bee Topper

Hi everyone!  Brittany from Edible Details here and I am SO excited and honored to have been asked to visit BFFF once a month to show you all some fun recipes and personal tricks and ideas for fondant work. Lately I’ve been loving the look of going beyond just a topper laying on a cupcake. [...]

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Homemade Marshmallow Fondant

                      Many of us enjoy the look of a fondant decorated cake, but many of us may not enjoy the taste. Often times, it’s quite tasteless and hard. However, I have found that some bakeries take great pride in their sweets by making their own fondant, ensuring [...]

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