Member Spotlight: The Cake & Cookie Closet: All Dolled up In Sugar

Our new member Debra J. Mosely, is an author, teacher, and caterer who just loves playing with sugar!

Come with Debra into her cake and cookie closet where you'll find easy to make cake and sugar cookie designs that will be a feast to your eyes and make your tummy happy.

Debra's book The Cake & Cookie Closet: All Dolled Up In Sugar, is scheduled to release this spring, and includes both buttercream and fondant cake designs and sugar cookie designs. Satin Ice and Fondarific fondant were used exclusively for the sugar cookies to make decorating quick and simple. Debra's book features edible doll cakes, beautiful hat cupcakes and cookies, dress cookies, shoe cookies, purse cookies, pants cakes and cookies, and diamond ring sugar cookies (Debra could not forget the bling) and chocolate shoes.

Whether you want to surprise a special woman with tasty treats or celebrate a birthday or other event, you will find something that will suit your needs. When you get a chance, check out Debra's website at www.thecakeandcookiecloset.com and her fan page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheCakeandCookieCloset.

Bronwen Weber Airbrushing & 2D Cake Carving Class June 6, 2010! Join Us!

NYC Cake Decorators Meetup is pleased and honored to announce that the esteemed sugar artist Bronwen Weber will conduct an Airbrushing & 2D Cake Carving Class with us on Sunday, June 6, 2010.

The Meetup Leadership Team has had such an overwhelming response for a class in airbrushing techniques that we just had to ensure that we set up a meetup with the "best of the best".

As a special treat, the subject matter for the workshop is a custom designed class just for NYC Cake Decorators and guests: A 2D Geisha Girl Face cake piece. The class is filling up fast! For information and to Register, contact Dina at nyccakedecorators@yahoo.com.

Fondant Mermaid Class Makes a Splash!

Member Silvina Barboza's Mermaid Figure Class made quite a splash! Members created their own cute mermaids from fondant and gumpaste. Silvina is a talented sculptor of sugarpaste. Follow her on Facebook.

Janet Ben-Ami's Workshop Rocked!!!

Member/Instructor Chef Janet Ben-Ami shows members how to carve their designer handbag. Janet's classes have been extremely popular in NYC Cake Decorators Meetup. When not teaching, she bakes and decorates amazing cakes and cookies at Hey! Cookie in Long Island.

Janet is a master at cake carving. Shown here is her beautiful designer bag cake in progress.

The proof of Janet's talent and teaching ability is this awesome cake created by member Ines in Janet's workshop! Wow!

Janet is scheduled to teach a Hamburger and Fries Cake workshop, a Chocolate Modeling class, and we have our fingers crossed that she will do an encore Designer Bag Cake class for NYC Cake Decorators in the fall. To obtain more information about Janet's upcoming classes or NYC Cake Decorators Meetup, contact Dina at nyccakedecorators@yahoo.com. Happy Caking!

Pi or Cake?

Sunday was National Pi Day (March 14). Thought cake decorators don't use much math--NOT!

You can figure out how many stripes to place on your cake by multiplying the cake circumference by Pi and dividing by the number of inches in each stripe. Who knew?

This beautiful cake was designed by member Kathleen Lochel. Kathleen is the owner of Lochel's Bakery, 57
S. York Road, Hatboro, PA, 19040, 215-773-9779.

Kathleen loves networking with other cakers in New Jersey and New York. She believes that you gain so much knowledge from networking and continuing to learn new techniques. If you are a cake decorator professionally or just want to try something new, you will benefit all around from taking sugar art classes and meeting others who are crazy about cake decorating.

Neat Idea for Coloring Easter Eggs

Photo courtesy of Cake 'n Crumbs

NYC Cake Decorators love sharing neat ideas for saving money in the kitchen, and Cake 'n Crumbs has a sweet idea for food color gel pastes that we just had to pass it along.

Did you know that you can use Gel Paste Colors to dye your Easter Eggs? Get your Gel Pastes and make the coolest colored eggs in town! Need spring color gel pastes? Ditch the crowded subways and purchase your gels online!

Coloring Easter Eggs:

For each desired color, place these ingredients into cups and stir well:

1-1/2 Teaspoons Vinegar

1 Cup Boiling Water (Cold water can be used as well but the colors don't dissolve as well)

1/8 Teaspoon Gel Paste Color (or use your own amount depending on the shade you desire)

Place hard boiled eggs into cups and let set for 5 minutes or until the desired shade of color is achieved. Shown here are the Electric Gel Paste Colors - these are so cool! For additional, creative ideas on how to decorate your Easter Eggs, go to Cake 'n Crumbs Recipes page.

Cake 'n Crumbs has a sweet opportunity for anyone who wants to make extra money teaching cake, cookie, candy, and cupcake decorating. Now through May 31st, Cake 'n Crumbs is running a very Sweet Deal for New Instructors. Get the scoop at kendra@cakencrumbs.com. You can also follow Cake 'n Crumbs on Facebook.

Cake Buzz: CupCake Camp comes to NYC!

The buzz from CupCake Camp NYC blog is that CupcakeCamp is hosting Cupcake Camp New York,
April 9, 2010 on Broome Street from 7:00-9:30pm. This gathering is just for cupcake foodies who want to share their love of the sweet little treat--no buying, sellings or baking cupcakes--just enjoying iced cupcakes and having fun with other foodies.

According to Cupcake NYC blog, Jennifer Ross, author of the soon to be released book, "The Icing on the Cupcake", will attend this year's festivities and will sign copies of her book.

Members Medal at Garden State Cake Show!

NYC Cake Decorators member/instructor Chef Janet Ben-Ami, Hey! Cookie, won 1st Place, Professional Division at the Garden State Cake Show for her spectacular Sand Castle cake.

Member Melissa Lusk also won the Decorators Choice Award for her whimsical and creative campfire cake. Can't you just smell the marshmallows crackling in the fire? The theme, "Summer Fun" really shines through in these two amazing cakes.

Congrats Janet and Melissa!