Our 6th Blogiversary!

I just realized it's been six years since I started my little blog!  Time sure does fly when you're having fun, right?  It's a t...

Facebook Rant over Illegal Bakers

Graphic via KeepCalm-o-matic I joined a few Facebook "yard sale" groups in my area.  It seems like every other day someone asks fo...

Best Deals on Buying Cake Supplies

Photo borrowed from Yelp, because I forgot to take one! Buying supplies for a small business is a part time job in itself, especially if you...

Gold Dots and Instagram

Loading Cup a Dee Cakes Making a gold dot & line cake #flipagram made with @flipagram View on Instagram We make cakes for a living, but...

Mini Kitchen Tour

I have had many public and private requests from a lot of you asking for a video tour of my baking kitchen.  Well, it's been a long time...

Gumpaste Flowers... Buy or Make?

 Do you buy any of your gumpaste flowers?  Let me guess!  If you are a cake hobbyist, you make your flowers.  It's fun and challenging a...

TieredCaker App and Giveaway

Full Disclosure Time: This post includes a giveaway sponsored by Calculated Cakes.  They are providing the prizes, but the opinions are min...

With a Little Help From Your Friends....

Congratulations Chris & Nancy! For many years Chad and I have had a very special friend.  We treasure the time we get to hang out and ch...

Do you get bored?

I'm tired and maybe a little grumpy, so you get a grumpy blogger. :) Too many weddings, graduations and parties happening at the same ti...

Ruffle Ribbon Rose Wedding

We were asked to recreate an almost exact copy of a cake from the Pastry Studio .  I have been getting involved with some more FB groups and...

Sketchy Cake Designs

Click to Enlarge Image When most everything you make is a custom design, you have to make a lot of sketches.  The only thing I like about re...

Taking Care of Display Cakes

This post is a baby lesson in dummy cakes and how to repair them. I really liked this cake when I made it, but about a year later it had ...

Quatrefoil Wedding Cake

There are not a lot of really new cakes out there these days.   Occasionally I find cake goodies and I want to purchase them all!  This wa...

What Happens When You Can't Deliver?

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and survived the holiday sales rush.  I'm thankful for my family and friends, and for my eve...

New Life to Old Dummy Cakes

The life of a cake decorator is all about learning.  Learning new skills, new techniques, new ways to overcome obstacles.  At some point, ev...

Best Way to Sample at Bridal Shows

I posted a couple of weeks ago about my latest showing at the Chattanooga Bridal Show.  One of the comments on that post was about how I pro...

Bridal Show Booths Revisited

  This weekend Chad and I participated in the Pink Bridal Show .  It was sort of a last minute decision; I didn't have any cakes booked ...

Marvelous Molds Contest

Recently, we were asked by Cake Central if we would be a part of a special contest.  We would be shipped some new cake decorating supplies a...

Quick Delivery Tip

Some weeks, I have to make several trips to get my cakes delivered.  Sometimes the timing of the deliveries just works out that way.  Some w...

This Ain't Your Mama's Wedding Show Booth

Chattanooga is not a very big "wedding market" according to The Knot and other big wedding sites.  We have to stuff ourselves into...