Fancy Flours: Where Bakers Bloom


Gingerbread Bird Houses; Great Shower Gifts
July 25, 2008, 4:55 pm
Filed under: Instructions, Just Plain Cool, Tips

Easy to make gingerbread birdhouses are a fabulous idea for a bridal or baby shower. Use as part of your gift, or if you are hosting, make one for each of your guests to take home.

Pre-baked gingerbread house pieces are ready for icing. Create whimsical wonders by using royal icing as your base. Let dry. Use food color stamp technique by using an un-inked stamp pad with a few drops of your desired color of food color.  Using your favorite stamp, dip into pad and blot off with paper towel. Stamp onto dried royal icing, just as you would if you were stamping on paper. 
After the stamped design had dried, assemble your house using thickened royal icing.  Once your house is standing and has completely set, pipe decorative borders around the edges, using additional royal icing. To create shimmering effect on your decorative borders, try using luster dust. Mix luster dust with a few drops of an alcohol-base (like white vanilla or almond extract) to create water-color like paste. Paint luster dust on with paint brush. Let dry.

Voila! Your gingerbread masterpiece is ready for display (or to be eaten)!

Shop fancyflours.com for gingerbread house pieces, luster dust, royal icing and more!



Cute Cat and Dog Picks make adorable cupcakes!
July 25, 2008, 4:37 pm
Filed under: Inspiration, cupcake

For every pet lover out there; these adorable cat and dog picks are a fun and playful way to decorate cupcakes. Take it a step further with a matching critter cake that is sure to please! Cupcake wrappers and cat and dog picks available at fancyflours.com.



Cake Jewels in new shapes and larger sizes!
July 25, 2008, 4:33 pm
Filed under: Instructions, Just Plain Cool

Cake jewels are an amazingly simply way to add a little sparkle to any ordinary cake. If you are in hurry, cake jewels even look great on store bought cakes. Use an individual one atop a cupcake or cookie, or add a lot of glam with several atop a cake. This year Fancy Flours is carrying new sizes and shapes of cake jewels adding to their collection of standard jewel shapes. Be sure to check out the larger sizes, as well as square, circle, oval, teardrop and more fabulous shapes, all at fancyflours.com. 



Beach Cupcakes; Perfect for Summer!
July 14, 2008, 8:13 am
Filed under: Just Plain Cool, Summer

These incredibly festive cupcakes are made with a just a few unique and fun products available at www.fancyflours.com. Simple cupcakes wrapped in Palm Tree Cupcake wrappers and topped with Sugar Flip Flops are the perfect touch to any summer gathering.  To view Fancy Flours’ entire collection of cupcake wrappers, please click the following link: http://www.fancyflours.com/site/search_advanced.html?mv_session_id=hLJiMaKc&search_clear=1&criteria=cupcake+wrapper

Interested in our molded sugar decorations? Please click the following link: http://www.fancyflours.com/site/xdpy/sf/Cake%20%26%20Cookie%20Decorations/Molded%20Sugar%20Decorations/index.html

 

Palm Tree Cupcake wrappers and flip flop sugars