Cake Decorating and cooking: Craftsy's Best of 2014 Sale

Get the gift you really want during Craftsy's Best of 2015 Sale happening now through Christmas! Treat yourself while ALL the classes are $19.99 or less, so you can make your best projects in 2015. Shop now to stock up and save. Once you enroll you'll own your Craftsy classes forever, so you can watch them at your own pace in the comfort of your own home, anytime, and if for any reason you aren't completely over the moon with your classes Craftsy offers a money back guarantee!

I don't know about you but I am an avid Craftsy member and now so excitedly an affiliate! If you purchase a class by going to Craftsy through clicking the link above the post, I am obliged to compensated....I have about 60 classes that I have purchased and probably 90 in my wish list that I have yet to buy and when these sales come around (you've gotta be sharp to catch them) I get as many as my bank account will allow! (Provided my husband doesn't find out!) well, that's not entirely true...my husband knows full well that I am self-taught and doesn't begrudge me buying classes online to better my skills but when sales like this come along I have had a tendency in the past to freak out and break the bank....and then he's not quite so supportive, if you know what I mean....

Anywhoooo....I am so happy to be able to share this with you today! All of the classes are EXCELLENT taught by inspiring cake decorating teachers from all over the world and there are even FREE classes that you can sign up for! The sale starts today and ends on Christmas Day so don't wait! Buy some for you and gift some to some friends (you know, those people near and dear that you can never think what to get them?) well think no more! Craftsy has classes for pretty much every kind of craft or hobby for every kind of person!

I'm a caker by trade but I've taken the various different styles of cooking classes, photography, art, even sewing with so many ideas to help me be a better caker,here a just a couple of cakes I've made using the Craftsy classes and platform.

I was sooooo excited that this cake was featured in Cake Central Magazine and I made the cage using a Royal icing Overpiping technique that has been around for eons but I was fortunate enough to learn it in my very first Craftsy class Vintage Cakes Modern Methods taught by Caking Icon Colette Peters. Colette's teaching style was so easy to follow that with a few practice runs I turned out this cake!

For this cake I learned to make these swags that while they look menacing were made so easily with the techniques taught by the Master Caker Marina Sousa in her Jeweled Wedding Cake class. Marina's classes make you feel like you're actually in her own kitchen doing her thing while she chats on with you, not watching her on a screen from a studio. I can't say enough about Craftsy and how much I love all of the classes I've already taken and how I look forward to the 90+ classes I have yet to take! So just click on the banner above this post and get your Craftsy on NOW!!!

http://www.craftsy.com/classes/cake-and-cooking

Cake-Decorating-Corner Baby Shower Cake Contest!!!

WHOOP WHOOP!!! Cake-Decorating-Corner is have a Baby Shower Cake Contest!!! Click on the link below and enter your cake today to WIN!!!

Win an AMAZON Gift Certificate:
1st Prize  $100 Gift Certificate
2nd Prize $75. Gift Certificate
3rd Prize  $50 Gift Certificate

Contest ends February 16, 2014!!!!!


Http://cake-decorating-corner.com/contests/baby-shower-cake-contest

Book Review

I can ecstatically say that  a secret Santa gave me this wonderful book written by the illustrious Elizabeth Marek, and I can also say that I am in the process of utilizing some of the tips, tricks, and techniques that she has graciously shared with us and that I will be sharing with you how helpful they were to me in the very near future. :)
If you click on the link below you can read my full review of this book and I can almost certainly say you will want to get your copy right away!

Book Review: Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating - Yeners Way