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Legalities of Baking and Selling Cakes in Ohio

Posted by The Sugar Lane on February 2, 2010

   

Many often ask me questions about getting started baking and selling cakes from home, and the legalities of doing so along with who to contact. I have provided all the information that is available for the state of Ohio, but those in other states you will have to research and find the laws for your particular area.  

  There are many laws when it comes to creating food products for the public. Some states require you to have a license to do cakes from your home, they may require a commercial kitchen which is inspected by the local health dept. Some states may allow you to bake certain kinds of things from your home without a license.   

Not all states are created equal when it comes to Baking from Home…..It is your responsibility to find out the laws in your particular state regarding baking and selling cakes from your home. To begin your research about the laws in your states for those interested in home baking you can contact your local Health Dept. or the Dept. of Agriculture.  

Here in Ohio you can bake and sell cakes from home as long as you don’t create cakes or pies that could spoil, it’s actually called the Cottage Food Regulations. You are permitted to bake non-potentially hazardous baked goods in your home and sell them anywhere in Ohio as long as they are properly labeled. Non-potentially hazardous baked goods include baked goods that do not need refrigeration to keep them from spoiling such as cheese cakes and cream pies. Regular cakes and cookies do fall under the Cottage Foods Regulations. You must label everything that you sell from your home, I have included the Factsheet from the Dept of Agriculture on this subject for those in Ohio who want all the details!!  

For further information contact,  

Ohio Dept of Agriculture and Food Safety/  

8995 E. Main St  

Reynoldsburg, OH 43068  

614-728-6250  

Email: foodsafety@agri.ohio.gov  

Below is the Factsheet regarding all the details of Baking and Selling Cakes from Home to the Public within the State of Ohio……..

 Ohio Department of Agriculture – Updated as of June 22, 2009 

   

 A “Cottage Food Production Operation” is defined in Chapter 3715 of the Ohio Revised Code to mean a person who,  

“Home” means the primary residence occupied by the residence’s owner, on the condition that the residence contains only one stove or oven used for cooking, which may be a double oven, designed for common residence usage and not for commercial usage, and that the stove or oven be operated in an ordinary kitchen within the residence.  

in the person’s home, produces food items that are not potentially hazardous foods, including bakery products, jams, jellies, candy, fruit butter, and similar products specified in the rule. These foods must be labeled properly or they will be considered misbranded or adulterated.

Manufactured for Sale or Distribution by a Cottage Food Production Operation? to be are PermittedWhat Foods

  

Bakery products (such as cookies, breads, brownies, cakes, pies, etc.); candy (including no-bake cookies, chocolate covered pretzels or similar chocolate covered non-perishable items); jams; jellies and fruit butter as defined in Chapter 3715 of the Ohio Revised Code. 

  

The new cottage food rule has expanded allowable products to include: granola, granola bars, granola bars dipped in candy; popcorn, flavored popcorn, kettle corn, popcorn balls, caramel corn; unfilled baked donuts; waffle cones; pizzelles; dry cereal and nut snack mixes with seasonings; roasted coffee, whole beans or ground; dry baking mixes in a jar, including cookie mix in a jar; dry herbs and herb blends; dry seasoning blends; and dry tea blends.  

What Foods are Not Allowed to be Manufactured for Sale or Distribution by a Cottage Food Production Operation? 

  

A “Cottage Food Production Operation” is 

  

not permitted to process acidified foods, low-acid canned foods, potentially hazardous foods or non-potentially hazardous foods not listed above

. Low acid food means any food with a finished equilibrium pH greater than 4.6 and a water activity greater than 0.85. Acidified food means a low acid food to which acids or acid foods are added (Ex. Beans, cucumbers, cabbage, puddings, etc.). Potentially hazardous food means it requires temperature control because it is in a form capable of supporting the rapid and progressive growth of infectious or toxigenic microorganisms (Ex. Raw or cooked animal products, cooked vegetables, garlic in oil, cheese cakes, pumpkin pies, custard pies, cream pies, etc.). What are the Requirements for the Labeling of Cottage Food Products? 

  

A “Cottage Food Production Operation” is required to label all of their food products and include the following information on the label of each unit of food product offered or distributed for sale: 

  

1. The name and address of the business of the “Cottage Food Production Operation”;  

2. The name of the food product;  

3. The ingredients of the food product, in descending order of predominance by weight;  

4. The net weight or net volume of the food product;  

5. The following statement in ten-point type:  

“This Product is Home Produced.” Note: If a nutritional claim is made (i.e. low fat, salt free, etc.) federal labeling requirements must be met. Specific food labeling information is available at the ODA web site: http://www.agri.ohio.gov/divs/FoodSafety 

  

Allergen labeling must be followed as specified in the federal labeling requirements.  

What Does the Statement “This Product is Home Produced” Mean? 

  

in a private home that is not subject to inspection by a food regulatory authority. was producedThe statement means that the food product

  

Where may Cottage Food Production Operations Sell Their Food Products? 

  

Cottage Food Products may 

only be sold in Ohio. Cottage Food Products that are properly identified and labeled may be sold directly to the consumer from the site where the products are produced; sold through grocery stores, farm markets, farmers markets; and sold and/or used in preparing food in a restaurant.

 

Does A Cottage Food Production Operation Need to Acquire a License to Process and Package Food Products?  

or adulterated. is misbranded if a food product determineNo. A “Cottage Food Production Operation” is exempt from inspection and licensing by the Ohio Department of Agriculture. However, all food products, including those produced and packaged by “Cottage Food Production Operations”, are subject to food sampling conducted by the Ohio Department of Agriculture to

  

Questions? 

  

Contact ODA Division of Food Safety: 1-800-282-1955 Ext 4366;  

Email: foodsafety@agri.ohio.gov   

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Fondant Frog and Piggy Character Booties

Posted by The Sugar Lane on January 18, 2010

I was just playing with some fondant one evening and came up with what I am calling Character Booties. I think they turned out soo cute, I just made the bootie part and attached the animal heads and legs on to finish the look, I am going to use them as cupcake toppers for a baby shower.

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Merry Christmas!!!

Posted by The Sugar Lane on December 25, 2009

I want to take the time this Christmas Eve to wish all my Sugar Friends a very Merry Christmas. To me Christmas is all about family and being thankful for all that I have in life! I have a great family who I love with all my heart and I am soo glad to be able to celebrate another Christmas with them all. My mom has been very sick this pastyear and I thank GOD that she is here with us for Christmas and I pray that she is here with us for many more!!! This past year has been very tough on my family as well as many of yours as well so I pray that the coming new year brings us a very blessed 2010!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS from Donna!!!!

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Decorating Christmas Cookies with the Family and some great Friends

Posted by The Sugar Lane on December 25, 2009

Last weekend me and the family got together to do our yearly tradition of decorating Christmas Cookies together…this year we had some of my cousins join us as well as my sons good friends from school. We had the time of our lives and this day will be one that I will forever remember! I love nothing better than to hang out with family and friends, to me there is just nothing better! For some of those who joined us for Cookie Decorating this was their very first time decorating cookies and I feel that they truly did a great job!! I worked all morning preparing my favorite sugar cookie recipe,  my homemade Cream Cheese recipe,  I also whippped up some poured fondant which is soo tasty on Cookies and  we also used Royal Icing too!  With lots of colored sprinkles and some pretty colored sugars we got busy decorating christmas cookies, ohh and eating a few in the process, lol.

Below are some of the photos from our fantastic day of Decorating Sugar Cookies 2009 ….I just love sharing photos with all of you so I hope that you enjoy looking at all of our them!!!!

 

Top Row….Mike D, Andy, Evan, Jake

Bottom Row…..Scott, Me  Jeff, Ryan

Me and my Cousin Greg he is sooo Cute isn’t he!!! 

Mike, Andy, Evan, Jake

Scott, Me, Jeff, Ryan

 

Scott, Andy and my Cousin Sue

Ohhh my gosh that table is such a mess…I will say the kitchen was a nightmare to clean up when we were finished..thanks to my mommy for cleaning it all up for me, I was soo wore out I did not have the energy to clean it up after working on everything all day long.

Evan, Andy and Jake

 

My cousin Kelly, She is into those Cookies

 

A little Chatting and Cookie Eating!!!

 

Jake with his Character Cookie that he decorated…he is soo proud!!

 

Me and my Favorite Cousin Sue

 

Me with my cousins Rachel, Kelly, and Rhonda

 

My mom Checking in on the Boys decorating their cookies

 

Evan and Andy working away on cookies!

 

Evan in a serious conversation here!

 

The following pics are some of the cookies the boys decorated!!

 

My little Gingerbread Cookie I did…he is soo cute!

 

Some of my other cookies

 

More cookies done by the kids!

 

Cookies my cousins decorated

 

My son Ryan’s cookie

 

My large cucake cookie!!

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Sugar Cookie Christmas Scene makes a great Centerpiece for the Holidays

Posted by The Sugar Lane on December 8, 2009

I taught my members how to create this Sugar Cookie Scene Centerpiece during one of my live web classes recently for my cake decorating friends over at www.cakedecoratingwithdonna.com

I baked 2 large square sugar cookies and cut a window in one of the cookies so that I could showcase my gumpaste Snowman…then I stood the 2 pieces of sugar cookie up to resemble an open book and secured them to my cake board with royal icing, ohh what would we do without royal icing at Christmas time….. once setup I covered them in white buttercream icing to give the look of snow….. I then added a gumpaste santa that is taking a break from delivering Christmas gifts so he is sitting back having some tasty snow cookies which the snowman is very busy making and selling…lol. The christmas tree is gumpaste and cut from a cookie cutter and small squares of gumpaste give the look of presents under the tree…and the snow cookies are just snowballs in a basket all made from gumpaste. I had the best time sharing with all my members how to create this adorable Cookie Scene that would make a great Centerpiece for the Holidays…..

This project is also something that I am sure the children would have a blast making and adding their own special touches. I hope that you enjoyed seeing my latest creation and I pray that all is well with you and your household this holiday season…. May you be Blessed!!!!!!!

                   

 

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Snowmen Cupcake Toppers

Posted by The Sugar Lane on December 8, 2009

I am soo excited to share with all of you…my sugar friends my latest creation, they are my adorable snowmen cupcake toppers that are just too cute to eat!  My Snowmen fondant toppers can be made to match any theme or decor for that special Holiday Celebration. They are so cute sitting on a soft base of sweet buttercream icing…..I will post pictures of them sitting on cupcakes for you to see a little later!

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Gumpaste Gingerbread Man Figurine

Posted by The Sugar Lane on December 2, 2009

Baking Gumpaste Gingerbread Man Figurine

With Christmas just around the corner I have been creating some Holiday Gumpaste Figurines and this baking gingerbread man is one of my first ones this season….I created a grey cookie sheet and used a pastry tip to cut out the round gumpaste cookies and a miniature flower blossom to create little gingerbread cookies….to create the icing for the gumpaste cookies I took gumpaste and tore it in small pieces then added water to it to create a look of royal icing for my gumpaste cookies. The sprinkles were the real sprinkles that you would use on real cookies, I had the best time with the gumpaste cookies I have always loves creating miniatures since I started working with fondant and gumpaste so they were alot of fun!!!

 

I have a dvd coming out very soon that will take you through the steps to create a Gumpaste Santa, the Gingerbread Man below and an Elf that is nothing but adorable…When the dvd is available the information will be posted here on my blog.

 

                                                                                              

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Pricing your Cakes as a Home Baker

Posted by The Sugar Lane on November 22, 2009

Pricing your Cakes as a Home Baker
The most important thing to remember when pricing your cakes is that no one can bake a cake quite like you. Therefore, what you charge is totally independent of what other bakers charge. However, it is important to research what is going on in the market with others within the cake world. This information will help you set the best market value for your cakes.

Step One: Call local grocery stores, bakeries, and home bakers

The best way to get an idea of what others are charging is to call various places in your local area. This research will give you an idea of what the market is willing to pay. When you call, you simply want to ask, “What is your price for ????” Act as if you are a customer inquiring about an actual cake so that you can get an idea of what they are charging! Its important to get an idea for cakes in Buttercream as well as cake in Fondant (Sugarpaste)…..then you need to make note of all this info that they give you on paper so that you can get an idea of what others are charging. Take several of the prices they give you and come up with an average.

 Here are a few cake cakes you might want to get pricing for:

· A typical sheet cake (1/4 sheetcakes are regularly used for birthday cakes in most areas)
· A special occasion cake…. say for example an 8 in round cake in buttercream with with icing flowers on it 
· A wedding cake –Per serving pricing! Ask what their pricing is for a round wedding cake iced in buttercream for 100 people…… some may give you a base price or a per serving price!
Step Two: Figure out what Your Actual Cost Per Cake is

For a typical 8 in birthday cake, a sheet-cake and then a tiered wedding cake….

After completing step one, you should have a better idea of cake prices in your local area. As stated earlier, you’ll only use this information as a reference because your cakes are unique and what you charge is based on your time, ingredients, and expertise.

However, you should price your cakes according to your local area. Just because I may be able to get $6 per serving for a wedding cake does not necessarily mean that is what the local prices in your area will be….

Here are some things you need to consider for your individual local area!

· Wages
· Housing
· Average annual income

Are things higher in your area than most other places? If so, you need to charge more. Do people on average earn higher salaries? If that’s the case, you need to charge accordingly. Do you get the idea?
The next thing you need to do is calculate your actual cost per cake. This includes all ingredients and packing materials such as cake boards, boxes and so on!

Most people charge 3-4 times what the cake cost them to make.

Here’s another way to come up with your prices.

If your goal is to make $25 on every cake, simply figure your total cost per cake and add $25 to it. This strategy works well for birthday and special holiday cakes.

Wedding cakes are usually sold by the slice and your price is totally up to you based on your time and expertise.

As you make the decision for what you’re going to charge for your cakes, you need to consider the factors that make your cakes unique. Although, you researched what other bakers charge, their prices should not be the basis of how you set your prices. To put it plainly, they are not your competition. You must think of yourself in a separate class of your own. Here are a few things that could make you different:

· You may offer original and customized designs for your customers. You take the time to find out what the client wants and you come to as close as you can to what is agreed upon. Unlike some bakeries and grocery stores who offer templated cakes with just a few changes.

· You may use family recipes with your cakes. This is why your cakes are extremely unique. No one else uses your recipe.

· You may offer the best ingredients. Some even bake their cakes with the freshest ingredients and some of them are shipped directly from the manufacturer because you can’t get it in stores.

· You may deliver and set up your cakes. This is a valuable service for those who are planning events such as weddings, anniversaries, and large birthday parties.

· You offer the best customer service. You listen to your clients and follow up to make sure they’re satisfied. You build relationships with those who buy your cakes.
There is no one formula to use when pricing your cakes. Every area is different. However, as a cake baker, you must charge what you’re worth. Regardless of your price, if you bake a great tasting cake and love your customers, they’ll become raving fans and beg for more.

You must believe in your decorating ability if you are going to get a fair price for your cake. If you don’t believe in yourself its tough to expect anyone else to. You must know that your cakes taste great and that your abilities warrant being paid a fair price. When someone gives you compliment on your cakes that should show you that your cakes taste great and beautiful as well so you deserve to be paid for your hard work. A lot of us are not used to getting compliments and we are not sure how to take a compliment. Next time someone gives you a compliment remember to politely say Thank You I do appreciate that. And know that YOU are a great decorator.

We must remember as home bakers that we work very hard on each cake we create. When you turn on your oven it costs you money, when you are decorating a cake you are not able to spend that time with your family. You should be paid for your hard work. When we hire an attorney or anyone else to provide a service for us we don’t tell them, well you know I could go down the road and get a cheaper attorney, like people say to us often times regarding walmart and other large retails grocery stores. You must realize with every cake your creating it costs YOU in one way or another, maybe the costs are minimal however your time away from your family is something you will never get back. Therefore make sure that you charge for your time to create those one of a kind cakes that most cannot purchase from walmart or other local grocery stores. Just a little something to think about the next time a friend or family member wants a free cake from you!!

What I have done myself to price my cakes is, I called around and got local prices especially local home bakers. I priced my cakes just under theirs in the beginning, once I got more experience I priced mine just above theirs, because I could create cakes and do things that they did not.

Realize you may get a lot of ohh my, your prices are too expensive!!! But hang in there you will find those who are willing to pay what you are worth. Don’t let it get to you, it is not a personal attack on your abilities, people are so used to going to Walmart and paying for a cheaper cake, but if you can educate them and show them how your cakes and your expertise is different from Walmart, people will begin to see the quality that you can offer them..

I wish you the best and may you realize just how valuable you are to the world of cake decorating!!

 

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Mini Purse Cakes, perfect for that Sweet Sixteen Party!

Posted by The Sugar Lane on November 18, 2009

I recently made some miniature purse cakes for a how to video for my members on my website so I thought that you would like to see how they turned out!! I really had a great time making these they are not as tough as one may think to create however I will tell you they are very time consuming and once you have created some miniature cakes you will notice that they seem to take more time than a regular sized cake would have taken.

The nice thing it that you can create many different designs which are great if creating for a themed party, you could get very detailed for a Sweet Sixteen Party, omg how cute would that be. Most teen girls just love handbags and such so this is one idea that I could see being very popular for that sort of occasion.

Well I gotta run….. I will chat with you again very soon, I have some very cool Christmas Cake ideas that I am working on and will surely share them with all of you when they are all completed, until next time….you all have a caketasic week

Donna

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Gumpaste Standing Figurine

Posted by The Sugar Lane on November 12, 2009

Hello to everyone!!!

Hope that you are all doing well….Its finally here the holiday season that is, believe it or not I was in the car the other day and the radio came on when I started the car and much to my surprise I heard Rockin Around the Christmas Tree, WHHHATT  I said Christmas music already!!! I just love Christmas Music and before I knew it I was singing away Rocking around the Christmas tree, have a happy Holiday and so on I will spare you my version of internet singing, haha!!

Although I am not ready for Christmas I am so excited about all the Holiday Christmas projects that we get to do this time of the yr..I have already begun a few projects and will be posting them for you all to see like I always do.

In the meantime I created a Gumpaste standing Figurine that I thought I would share with you I hope that you enjoy seeing it, I must say it is alot of work creating figurines that are standing!!

boystandingfigure

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Teddy Bear Halloween Cake How to Video

Posted by The Sugar Lane on October 28, 2009

I have a 3 part how to Video that  just put on youtube that I thought you may want to watch…….

 

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Gumpaste Sock Monkey

Posted by The Sugar Lane on October 27, 2009

Growing up I had a sock monkey which I loved!! However over the yrs I have tried to remember what happened to that thing and cannot for the life of me figure out what happened to it! I recently decided I would try my hand at creating one out of gumpaste and below is a picture of what I ended up with……

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Making a baby blanket from a Patchwork Cutter how to video

Posted by The Sugar Lane on October 9, 2009

Here is a new how to video that I posted to youtube showing how to create a baby blanket from a patchwork cutter, I hope that you enjoy learning how to create this project!!!

 

 

 

 

 

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Trick or Treat Figurine

Posted by The Sugar Lane on October 9, 2009

The fall season has officially begun and we are now seeing colder weather and the holidays are just around the corner which has me thinking of some great cake projects. I love creating holiday themed cakes and such. Right now I am working on a upright standing Trick or Treat Bag Cake it is a fun cake to make and one that is soo exciting to decorate!! I will be sharing this cake with all of you very soon once I finally get it all finished and ready for viewing….

I have been making my favorite halloween figurine again this year and that is my little trick or treater….. here is a picture of him in case you did not get to see him last year!

 

trickortreatfigurineby donna lane

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Princess Cake for Senea!!!

Posted by The Sugar Lane on October 6, 2009

We recently celebrated my neice Senea’s birthday she just turned a year old….Being the little princess that she is there was nothing more fitting than making her a Princess birthday cake, The smaller cake was her smash cake with a couple gumpaste butterflies and a gumpaste tiara that I made myself. The other cake was done in purple and pink accents with gumpaste butterflies as well with a purchased tiare sitting on top, I had made 3  royal icing different tiaras for that cake however they all broke on me so off to the store to purchase a tiara which I must say is the first I have purchased someting to go on a cake instead of making it myself

 

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Join Donna for a Christmas Themed Figurine Workshop in Columbus Ohio

Posted by The Sugar Lane on September 26, 2009

There is nothing like creating a Gumpaste Figurine Cake Topper that tells a story and now you get the opportunity to join me for a workshop where we will be creating a Christmas themed Sugar Figurine that Tells a Story of the most exciting time of the year! Photos of the piece that we will be creating together will be posted very soon…I will give you a hint, a little girl, a friend amd more!

I will be doing the 2 day Workshop on November 14-15 2009 from 10:00 am to 4 pm  in the Columbus Ohio area for those who are interested in joining me for 2 days of sugar sculpting, food and fun!

 

Here are the details for the 2 day workshop with me!

Where: Columbus Ohio

When: Nov. 14-15 2009

Price: $245

Deposit: $50 due immediately

Lunch will be provided for you!

I will be providing Gumpaste for all attendees

A supply list will be emailed to you.

For questions email me at donnalane7@msn.com

 Click the Buy Now Button to pay your deposit via paypal for the the Columbus Ohio Workshop…you will then need to pay the remaining balance by Nov.1st 2009

As you can imagine there are only a very few seats left at this time so be sure to get signed up immediately!!!!

                                        Buy Now Click here to sign up for the workshop with Donna

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My new website www.gumpastefigurine.com

Posted by The Sugar Lane on August 27, 2009

 

Learn to create this Bumble Bee Figurine on dvd at www.gumpastefigurine.com104_9067 copy

 

 

I recently created a new website for those who are interested in purchasing my how to videos on dvd. The website is www.gumpastefigurine.com  this website is all about gumpaste figurines of course, and I have many of my pictures posted over there as well as gumpaste and fondant info for those who are just getting started in created figurines. If you have any questions as always just let me know and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

I hope that you are all enjoying the summer as it is quickly coming to an end which I must say just makes me so sad, I do not want to see winter just yet. I love the fall months it truly is my favorite time of the year but it just does not last long enough. I have already strated thinking about what it is I plan to create for the upcoming holidays…I cannot believe it is almost here when you think about it we only have less than 4 months left in the year of 2009 wow where did all the time go this year. It seems as though it was just spring, and now here we are approaching the month of september. As much as hate to see winter I just Love the holiday season as most of you do too! I love the baking  and creating. This year with my cake decorating teching site I get to share how to videos with my members  for the upcoming halloween and christmas season. I know it will be alot of fun sharing with them how to create figurines and cake projects that are perfect for halloween as well as christmas so I do have all of that to look forward to. As always I will share all of my photos and such with all of you as I do them.  Most of all I know that the holdiay season means family time and that is the most important part to me. I look forward to all the get togethers and the memories that will be created with the holiday season.

I hope and pray that 2010 will be a much better year for our economy and all those who have had to deal with some very tough times over the past few years. The most important thing is to remain positive about all of it and don’t allow it to steal your joy!!! It is so easy to watch the news channels and get all wrapped up in the issues I have found that listening to all the negatives things sometimes causes me to get a little down so I have learned to stay away from it. I figure all I need to know is the basics. After many years I now know that if I say things are going to be bad they usually are so I now say things are getting better and better in my life and you know what they do! The things you say have a huge impact on your life so as a little experiment over the next week start watching what you say out of your mouth, watch and see how it really does impact how things in your life are effected! That saying you have what you say is soo true! If the entire world got more postive about our economy and the things in life could you image how much impact it would have on the world we all live in!!!! I am going to start speaking great things for my life in 2010…It is going to be the best year of my life!

Well I have to run for now but will check in with all of you a little later, have a blessed weekend, it’s going to be a good one!!

Donna

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Blue and White Cross Baptism Cake

Posted by The Sugar Lane on August 27, 2009

I recently created a Baptism Cake that was in the shape of a cross for a little boy who was the sweetest little thing! It was a strawberry creme cake covered in buttercream icing done in a blue and white theme. I also created little gumpaste shoes to finish off the look! The border on the top of the cross is one that I have been working on for some time I get tired of the same ole thing when doing cakes so I was playing with some icing lately and was trying to come up with something that was more appealing than the plain border outling the top of a cake. The border is done in 3 layers and gives a very nice look once complete.

 

Cross Cake

 

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Mini Dress Cake on a Gumpaste Hanger

Posted by The Sugar Lane on August 21, 2009

I created this mini dress cake recently and what alot of fun it was. You can do so many great designs on the dress which is the greatest thing that I love about cake decorating. If you want to do a simple look you can just cover the dress area with buttercream, then if you want to get really fancy you can do that by covering in fondant and adding flowers, pearls and the many other things that are available.

 

Miniature Dress Cake

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Bumble Bee Love–Gumpaste Bumble Bees Cake Topper

Posted by The Sugar Lane on August 6, 2009

 I just love creating gumpaste bumble bees, one day while trying to come up with a cute cake topper for a summer cake I decided to create Bumble Bees but made them in a larger size and I must say that I am very happy with the results.

You can learn to create these adorable gumpaste bumble bees

Available for purchase on DVD… http://www.gumpastefigurine.com/Purchase_Dvd_s.html

 

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