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Baby Shower CAKE for the month of May

           Hey I haven't been blogging lately but I'm still around. So, I have an order for two cakes coming up in May for my brothers girlfriend baby shower. His girlfriend ask for a belly cake and another cake. But the second cake I choose to surprise her with. The flavors are vanilla and red velvet. I'm so excited to show off my  talent to everyone.

          I have seen new  techniques I would love to incorporate into the design as one of the finishing elements. One of the techniques is using a sheen finish on the entire cake for a luster dust look. Another I will be doing is making a figure out of modeling chocolate as the topper. This will be a great journey to learn new techniques and to show my talented skills poof to other people. I will definitely post pics when the time comes up.

100 Like Prize Giveaway

So yesterday was the day i finally made it to 100 likes on my Facebook business page.
I created my page last year around September and ever since I was struggling with my fans. Originally on my personal page I liked many other independent cake artist's business pages. So one day i came upon a cake artist's post that was posted on my time line. It was called tagged tuesday's. The method was to tag a link to ur own business and everyone must like everyone else's. That's how i got to 100 likes.

So i have decided to make a giveaway to celebrate this history of Nika's Custom Cakes. I have not as yet figured out what exactly I will be giving away. But everyone has until February 14 to enter by likeing the post on my Facebook page @Nika's Custom Cakes.

New Beginnings of a New Year!

So the week of Christmas was really busy for me because i had taken two orders in that week. Now i am not of a good person when in the mist of chaos, lets just say. I was losing it every moment whe i was getting the orders ready. I did my best but i am definitely going to improve to make better decisions. That's one of my new year resolutions. Thanks and happy new year.

Cupcake Decorating 101

My first Cupcake Decorating 101 Class

This was a small class I had instructed but it was worth doing just for experience and new skills. I give thanks to my niece and sister for giving me a chance to instruct this class and I hope I can do many more classes in the future. My niece had a sleepover party with just a few of her friends.  Here's some pictures from the small event: 

Broches!

Hey recently I went shopping with my sister the other day and I found a real keeper. I saw some beautiful necklaces with matching earrings. I know your thinking "what are you blogging this for"? So I really wasn't interested to buy them to wear but to replicate them into a mold. I have doing much much research on Facebook and Youtube for new trendy cake decorating ideas, as well as to see what the other cake decorators around the world are up to. So will keeping up to date with that I found out I could really make my own silicone molds myself. I was so excited and thrilled to find out instead of spending so much money on  something i could make myself. So the only disappointment was that I didn't have any jewelry to replicate. That's when the jewelry at the store I was shopping at came into mind. I was like OMG this could be a great broach piece on a wedding cake or such. The jewelry set was $5.99 each, I asked my sister and explained it to her why I was buying and she said I shouldn't.  That it wasn't worth my $6. On my way to work I knew I should've bought them just to practice my skills in a new area. So until next time I will definitely buy some broaches and silicone maker to make my own mold.


thanks!

My New Experience on Cratsy

So a few months ago I was on Face Book browsing through other Cake Decorators and Cookie Makers blogs and fan pages and I came across one persons page who mentioned a website www.Craftsy.com. The website shares inexpensive arts and crafts classes that people can take online at any given time. The great thing is that it has a wide variety of crafts for people to learn about. The website also has Cake
Decorating classes that professionals teach in their own home with step-by-step instructions which is so easy, affordable, and convenient.

I had purchased my first class last month which was based on Hand Crafted Sugar Flowers instructed by
Jacqueline Butler who is the owner of Petal Sweet, her custom made cake business. The class was afford-ably $39.99 which wasn't too bad, right? But any ways, this particular class has about 5 lessons. The classes are always broken up into categories. 


I also had an email update on a free class learning how to Modern Butter cream which  is a class taught to make Swiss Meringue Butter cream. I was glad it was free because I definitely took the class right away. The class was instructed be Joshua John Russell, one of many Food Networks Winner on the Cake Contest and many other shows he has appeared on. Joshua teaches you how to make the Swiss Meringue Butter cream, how to use it properly making a tiered cake and to store it as well if not in immediate use. 


There are definitely more classes especially on fondant design and piping techniques  using royal icing. I am so glad the prices are so affordable plus it can be learnt any where on your PC or Notebook. These prices compared to an in house session is a breath of fresh air. I will be updating new projects and ideas soon.




thanks!