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Category Archives: Experimental Techniques
Episode 45 – Dawn Butler
Have you ever had a cake going badly and thought, “Well it’s not like it’s for the Queen of England?” Okay but what if the cake actually was for the Queen of England? Don’t miss Dawn Butler’s amazing story behind … Continue reading →
Posted in Cake Decorating, Experimental Techniques, Fancy cakes, Links, Other People's Experiments, Other People's How-Tos, Other People's Recipes, Podcast, Severe Nerdery, Working With Kids
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Lunar Surface Effect on Cookies
Do you need some easy, fast, inexpensive moon cookies for an event, party, or school bake sale? No time to go shopping for moulds or spend hours doing multiple layers of piping? Well I’ve got you covered! Step 1: bake … Continue reading →
Posted in Cookies, Experimental Techniques, General Freakishness, Other People's Recipes, Working With Kids
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Da Vinci’s Wild Austin Adventure
For this year’s That Takes the Cake! show in Austin, TX – which had a theme of The Science of Cake – I decided to make a cookie version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Aerial Screw, sometimes called Da Vinci’s helicopter. … Continue reading →
Posted in 3D Cookies, Cake Decorating, Cookies, Experimental Techniques, Prize Winners, Severe Nerdery, Uncategorized
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My Chocolate Balls Bring All The Ladies To The Yard
That is to say my “Chocolate Truffle Cake Bombs With Salted Caramel Popcorn Buttercream Centres” that I entered into the Women’s Institute 2018 Tea and Tents Bake Off competition won the chocolate category and everyone who’d had one came around … Continue reading →
Posted in 3D Cookies, Buttercream Techniques, Cake Balls, Cake Decorating, Chocolate/Candy, Cookies, Experimental Techniques, Links, My Recipes, Other People's Recipes, Prize Winners
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3D Sewing Machine Cookie
In February of 2017, I submitted two entries for the Austin cake show: a sewing machine made out of cookies and a miniature set of figures with a Resist sign. The sewing machine scored First Place in the Cookies – … Continue reading →
Posted in 3D Cookies, Cake Decorating, Cookies, Experimental Techniques, Figures, Prize Winners
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Butterfly Cake for Epidermolysis Bullosa – Plus How to Make Dark Fondant Tree Bark
I was invited by my good friend Kyla Myers of Crazy Cakes in Austin to a Facebook collaboration to raise money and awareness of Epidermolysis Bullosa, a rare genetic skin disorder in which skin blisters and tears at the slightest … Continue reading →
Posted in Cake Decorating, Donated Items, Experimental Techniques, Fancy cakes
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Popcorn Pancakes
I wanted a legitimate reason to eat popcorn for breakfast because I was craving it and feeling blerghy about trying to eat anything else. I googled around and found various ways of turning popcorn into cereal with milk but that … Continue reading →
Safety Lights Are For Dudes – Experimenting Holztmann Style
I bought a Ghostbusters logo cutter from Etsy awhile back. Recently when my friends and I were going to watch the 2016 movie together, I decided that was an excuse to run some random experiments: Question 1: can you put … Continue reading →
Posted in Cake Decorating, Cookies, Experimental Techniques, Severe Nerdery
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Product Review: Marvelous Molds Ocean Line
I was going to post this originally as part of a bigger post all about how I made my recent Finding Dory collaboration cake, but Robin turned three years old recently and apparently has decided that clinging to me and … Continue reading →
Posted in Cake Decorating, Experimental Techniques, Flexible Chocolate, Gummy, Products, Tool Reviews
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Flexible Chocolate – AKA Chocolate Gummy
I’ve posted a huge new page all about my latest award-winning cake decorating invention: Flexible Chocolate, or Chocolate Gummy. Go check it out and learn how to turn chocolate into lace, how to braid it, and even how to knit … Continue reading →

Posted in Cake Decorating, Experimental Techniques, Flexible Chocolate, Gummy, My Recipes, Prize Winners, Severe Nerdery
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