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Bluebird French Macarons or Macaron Pops RecipeWe love to play with our food!

Since 2000, we have long thought of ourselves as Crafty Bakers, giving you step-by-step recipe projects, with detailed information, tips and techniques, with lots of color photos. We enjoy thinking of baking as an art, as well as a science, too. Enjoy some of our well-crafted recipe-tutorials.

SARAH SAYS: Decorated cakes, cookies, etc. are so beautiful and festive. To learn, it does take practice and patience, but it is fun to do and we show you how. Just remember, with decorating, less is definitely more; it's the little details that can really pull your recipe together. Oh, and don't forget, it never needs to look perfect!

THE BASICS - This is not a complete list. Use SEARCH if you cannot find it here or go to our HOW TO SECTION.

FROSTING, FILLINGS & GLAZE TYPES 

101 Intro
Buttercream Flowers 
Dusting Chalks or Decorating Dusts 
Flowers: List of Edible 
Flowers - How to Crystallize
Fondant - Flower Toppers
Fondant - Ribbon Roses
Ginger - How to Crystallize

Icing Swirls and Video
Meringue - How to Make
Nuts - Blanch / Chop / Toast
Parchment Paper Cones - How to Make  
Pastry Bags  - How to Fill
Piping 101
Piping Designs  
Piping Gel 
 
Sugar - How To Apply for Decorating  
Tint - How to Tint Icing  
Tint- How to Tint Sugar
Terms   

THE BASICS - RECIPES

Fondant: Marshmallow Fondant Recipe
Fondant, Rolled: Rolled Fondant Recipe
Gumpaste or Tylose Gum Paste
Royal Icing Master Recipe

CAKES

101 Intro
Projects 
Cake Balls
Cake Pops
Crumb Coat 
Cupcakes
Dummy Cakes 
Designs
Fill Cake Layers
Frost and Smooth Cakes -  Icing Spatula
Frost and Smooth Cakes - Piping Bag
Frost and Smooth Cakes -  Upside Down Smooth Icing Technique 
Guide Glaze
Glossary
Quick and Easy
Stenciling
Trim and Torte or Slice into Cake Layers
Wedding Cakes

CUPCAKES

101 Intro

Fill - Cone Method
Fill - Pastry Bag

CANDY
101 Intro

BREAD
101 Intro

Sarah's Microwave Bread Proofer

CHOCOLATE

101 Intro
Chocolate Curls
Chocolate Leaves

Melt or Melting
Temper or Tempering

COOKIES

101 Intro
Projects

PASTRY

101 Intro
Projects

PIES AND TARTS

101 Intro
Projects

QUICK-BREADS

101 Intro

Projects

 

OTHER

Gelart

 

 

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