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"Fashion fades, only style remains the same"-Coco Chanel
"Has anyone seen my good yoga pants?" -Evil Cake Genius
Let's get real people, The ECG is no fashion icon. So when talking fashion, we need to bring in the big guns.
And there is none more fashion forward in the cake biz, than the one and only Elisa Strauss of Confetti Cakes.
Needless to say, the ECG is tickled pink (or whatever shade she'd supposed to be tickled in this year) that Elisa has come out with an amazing line of Fashion molds and Imprinters for Marvelous Molds.
These molds are not only incredibly beautiful and versatile, but they have that patent-pending self-cutting edge that makes them ridiculously easy to use!
So let's dive in, with Elisa's Pearl Buckle Mold. One mold, makes a perfect pearl-ring buckle and strap. That's cool. You know how many sugar pearls the ECG has lost to the floor trying to create this look? Maybe this can be explained by the fact that one of Elisa's first jobs was working for Ralph Lauren. One of the ECG's first jobs was at the Foot Locker in Fox River Mall. Let's stick with Elisa, shall we? Oh, check out all of Elisa's Buckle Molds!
Onto some bows. This little pleated number would put Coco Chanel to shame! And this Pinwheel Bow? Come on, don't get me started. It's the perfect addition to any cake, and you don't have to spend a second cutting, looping, supporting, crying, etc. to get it done.
Now let's talk texture. Any good fashionista can tell you that good fashion is in the details. Elisa knows this, so she's created the most realistic high-fashion impression mats on the market. Her
Alligator mat could fool any Everglades Aficionado.
And check out her Distressed Leather Mat! Not only will it make any cakey accessory look like perfectly weathered leather, but it makes an incredible Crushed Silk texture for any wedding cake tier that needs just a little somethin'
Or just take a gander at her Lizard Mat on this shoe by the amazing Cake Dreams by Iris.
While we're talking about Iris, let's just feast our little eyes on this lovely. See that incredible texture on the red fondant? That's from Elisa's Goose Bumps Mat
It not only makes the perfect fashion texture, but it is exactly the pattern you need for any football cakes or cookies! Oh, and while you're at it, pick up one of our
Zebra Mesh Stencils to make your life a little easier, will ya?
Wanna learn how to make frosting shoes from Iris herself? She's teaching this year at SoFlo Cake and Candy Expo! See her Class HERE 
Oh, Coco, Ralph, close your eyes! Turns out Miss Elisa has a bit of a taste for
Bad-Assery! and the Spikes?
It's always the quiet ones, isn't it?
Her Zipper and Pull mold
is just plain GENIUS! You know how many times the ECG has failed miserably trying to make a good-looking zipper on a suitcase cake, a golf bag cake, a gym bag, coat or boot cake. Just take her Genius card away right now.
Oh, and those spikes are going to take frosting dog collars to a whole new level!
But the Chains! This is it. The Genius of all Genius molds. The ECG has made fondant chains for Purse Cakes by hand for years! They always look slightly wonky, and the individual links are varied in size and not quite stuck together. Oh, and did she mention that it takes FOREVER to make one?
This one, she just had to see in action, and so do you! Those lightning fast man hands you see are Dominic from Marvelous Molds!
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FREE MONARCH STENCIL SET IS BACK!
But, First ALL THE WAY FROM THE UK Dinkydoodle's New Doodle Pen Is Here! It's The Latest Creation From The Amazing Dawn Butler! The Doodle Pen
has been specifically designed for ease of use when piping onto cakes,
saving you time if you are an experienced decorator and giving a helping hand to those novice bakers just starting out. Much like an airbrush, the Doodle Pen works with a simple trigger that you pull back whenever you wish to pipe your decorations, making it easy to get your piped decorations right the first time.
FREE Monarch Butterfly Stencil Set ($34.95 Value) With Any Purchase Of $39 or more.
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Two wedding trends that just got a whole lot easier! Sequins and Lace.
If you haven't done a sequined tier yet, it's only a matter of time. This look is HOT for wedding cakes and any occasion worthy of a little glam. And the best part is, it's a pretty easy technique. The Evil Cake Genius did her first sequined tier last year, and has plenty lined up for this summer, which is why she almost lost her mind when she came acro
ss our new
est product:
EDIBLE GOLD SEQUINS!!
As any of you who ha
s had the pleasure of making one of these bad-boys, you know that they are typically made with pastel edible sequins (sprinkles) and painted metallic once they're stuck to the cake. It's a beautiful look, but the ECG is always driven a bit mad by trying to cover all of the color variations in the sprinkles.
As you may have experienced yourself, the gold doesn't look quite the same on a pale blue sprinkle as it does on a white one, and try as she has, the ECG has not been able to source all white sprinkles.
But ask and ye shall receive! Nope, she didn't find white sprinkle sequins, she found Metallic Gold!! Can I get an amen?!?!
Imma' do me a cake without touching a paintbrush or airbrush, yes I am. Yes, yes, yes I am!
Now, while we're talking about wedding season, it's about time you got yourself our most popular lace stencil. Our
Mantilla Lace Stencil has proven itself our most popular acrylic lace stencil, and for good reason. It's STUNNING! Well, and it also happens to resemble the scalloped edge lace on the bottom of many wedding dresses and veil edging. It also comes sized for a 6" torted tier, or a 4" tall standard height.
We loved using ours on the Gold Sequin Cake, that we made it a couple of friends. Our Pearl Swag Stencil and Vienna Swag Stencil
pair perfectly with the pattern to make an incredible three tier cake without so much as picking up a pastry bag or the dreaded tweezers!
Yep, pearl swag details without hand placing a single pearl. Pretty genius, eh?
But Hey, Evil Cake Genius! My bride has Alencon Lace on her dress! Oh, never you fear! Check out all of our
Lace Stencils and you'll see that we have the most extensive selection of laces anywhere! We've Got
Alencon Lace stencils,
Chantilly Lace Stencils,
Guipure Lace,
Belgian Lace,
Floral Lace, and any lace in between. So what are you waiting for? Make your life a little easier this wedding season...come to the stencil side.
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What would you say if we told you that we were going to show you how to make edible fabric? You'd probably say what we said when we first saw video of this product...
NO. *&%#* WAY.
Well..... WAY. That's right, we said it. WAY.
This stuff will warp your cakey mind!!!
Introducing FLEXIQUE
Create edible fabric by brushing this stuff on a silicone mat and allowing it to dry, or by coating
wafer paper or even printed icing sheets on both sides.
It will make legit edible fabric that will drape and flow like the real thing. You can tie bows with this stuff and even stretch it without any cracking or breaking. If you're still able to wrap your head around the awesomeness,
try this...brush it on a texture mat and allow it to dry. It will hold the texture.
Seriously ENDLESS possibilities, and the ECG has only just begun to play with this stuff!
Yes. It's for real
AND it has so many applications for cake decorators that (prepare for cliche') you're only limited by your imagination. So if you can't think of anything to do with Flexique, you best be visiting the used imagination lot and trading yours in for one with a little more zip, a little less rust and tires that aren't bald.
Ready to get Flexcited?? Check out the video on our site and get a link for more information!
Don't miss our Free Butterfly Stencil Promo! It's ending soon, so check it out below.
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The cake below is so Sugary, so Skully and SO darn easy that it will, well, blow your mind right inside that 'ol brain cage of yours (that's your skull, you numbskull). So, what do you need to know about it?
Well, we used 3 products AND not coincidentally have 3 Videos showing us use them in different ways, so sit back, relax and get ready to watch a little sugar skull action.
And did we mention that that set comes in English, Spanish, or Blank so you can fill in your own words? Pretty cool, huh?
But, Hey, Evil Cake Genius...what if I like my skulls a little less sugary?
Ahh, we got you...How about some super scary, Harley-riding, sugar-free, scary-ass skulls?
Now, the first time we saw this skullarific design on a cake it was by the scary-talented, Donna, at Daisy Cupcake. She showed us her amazing cake when we met at Cake International in the UK last year. She DIDN'T use one of our stencils to make it. She used a small acrylic skull stencil that she airbrushed, then moved, then airbrushed, then moved, you get the pattern. So when our friend Anne-Marie over at Anne Marie's Cake Studio contacted us with a picture of a similar cake, asking if we could make her a stencil that would do this, we said, sure...but let's make it way easier and faster!
So was born our
Gothic Skull Mesh Stencil. This bad boy lines up seamlessly to fit side by side around any tier, and the best part is, you stencil it with Royal Icing ONE TIME! One swipe, and you're set! (well, a second swipe for the back half of the cake, but still, not bad!)
The pattern stencils so crispy and scary that you could just leave it as is, or take out that old airbrush and lightly airbrush around the edges of the skulls for that super spectral, eerie look.
So whether you want your skulls to be scary Harley-riding, or pretty, Margarita-drinking...as always...the ECG's got you covered. You're welcome.
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How many times have you heard "we just want a simple cake" followed by a description of something that is NOT SIMPLE?
The ECG has, and it's time to take back "simple"! How about Polka dots. Simple, Right? Yes, simple, but insanely time consuming! The Evil Cake Genius is convinced that if she added up the time that she has spent cutting out fondant dots, it would add up to at least a year of her life. Let's not add the time it takes to stick them on a tier in a simple "random" pattern, that isn't random...you know it's not random, dammit! If it were random, it would in no way be aesthetically pleasing. Nope, painstakingly planned "random" is what it is.
Well, what it really is, is time consuming. And time is money in this cakey-bakey game. Many of you have already discovered our Dissipating Dots and Tiny Dots Stencils for this very reason. But in our never-ending quest to end the dot madness, we've just created our
Lots of Dots 2 stencil set.
Evil Cake Minion Jenna requested this stencil for her very own Little Sister's wedding cake. After all, Jenna was not only the cake maker for the event, but she was the Maid of Honor, too. That's such a sweet combination of INSANE STRESS, isn't it?
So rather than hand-cutting three different colors of metallic fondant dots, we made her this set of stencils created to layer with airbrush colors. Genius!!
She airbrushed the stencil with a mixture of
Dinkydoodle Silver Airbrush Paint, Vodka, and our amazing
Silver Powder (you can airbrush with just a mixture of vodka and silver powder, but the
Dinkydoodle airbrush paints are made to dry INSANELY fast, so replacing some of the Vodka with the Dinkydoodle color makes the airbrushing dry super fast). This is important for step 2, which is Clean the stencil, dry the stencil, and FLIP THE STENCIL OVER to airbrush dots in a second color (in Jenna's case, Metallic Gold, made the same way as the silver with Vodka,
Gold Powder and
Dinkydoodle Gold Airbrush Paint).
Now, if you're only doing two colors of dots, you're done. And you can just use our
Lots of Dots Stencil.
But, if you're Maid of Honor level decorating, you have to add a third color, so you'll want to buy
the
Lots of Dots Two Stencil Set
. This set includes a second stencil to give you three different dot layouts. In Miss J's case, the third stencil was used for
Bronze/Rose Gold
dots.
Here just watch the video:
Pretty Genius, eh?
Now, check out the whole cake, and one damn-fine looking couple below.
The Bottom two tiers used our Dissipating Small Dots stencil, which was reversed for the second color, and just shifted a couple of inches for the third. Clever Girl.
Now, in case you just can't handle the end of our Tuesday chat...never fear! We've just added cupcake liners to our site! Check out all of the new Cupcake Liners available to take your cupcake game up to the next level of awesome. Especially our new Tulip Cupcake Liners that will showcase your cupcakes and muffins for the couture amazingness that they are.
The ECG wants nothing more than to roll around in all of those brightly colored cupcake liners, but alas, she has work to do...testing out the next bad-ass products we're bringing to you!
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Rose Gold or Gold Roses
We're getting ready for wedding season with some new stencils inspired by this year's wedding trends. We all know that Rose Gold and Metallics are big this year, but brides are leaning toward organic-nature inspired patterns too. That's why we created our latest Rose Abstract Mesh Stencil.
This is going to be the Chameleon stencil of the year. The Evil Cake Genius can't wait to see what you all do with this little number.
We originally designed it as a hand-painting outline stencil, but once we tested it out, we loved it so much on it's own that we decided to stencil it in our Metallic Gold on this little anniversary cake for one of our favorite clients. Worlds are colliding!!! Glamorous metallics with Romantic natural design...who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?
And it's so ridiculously detailed and so fast that you won't know what to do with the rest of your day. "Free"... I'd like to introduce you to "Time" you two haven't met before have you?
Check out just how easy this one is in the Video:
Now let's talk penmanship.
The Evil Cake Genius doesn't know about you, but her hands hurt. Yeah, yeah, can I get you a glass of whine with that...but it's true. She's been decorating cakes for 20 years, and to be honest, hurty hands or not, her penmanship sucks.
So when a client needs a message on a cake, the Evil one abides...but she uses one of her Genius Alphabet Mesh Stencil Sets to get the job done. And we've just added a new Relaxed Script Alphabet Mesh Stencil Set to the mix!
It's not as formal as our Script Alphabet Set, and not as structured as our Classic Alphabet set, and nowhere as goofy as our Cartoon Alphabet Set. The Evil Cake Genius made this one look like what she
wishes her handwriting looked like (not the illegible scrawling that her minions make sport of mocking).
Didn't know about our awesome alphabet sets, even though we launched them over a year ago? It's okay, pobody's nerfect. You can check out all of our new stuff in our brand-spankin' new NEW STUFF category on the site and never miss out again!
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It's the Evil Cake Genius... drumroll please...
Guide To Metallics
The Evil Cake Genius has spent years trying to match metallic colors to a 1/2" square piece of tablecloth, napkin, ribbon or some other miniscule scrap of nothing from an upcoming event.
Do we look like a CSI's? Well, we're not.
So give us something we can work with people! As usual, if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself, so she did. And of course she's gonna share it with her friends. So here goes. It's a simple guide to Metallics to hopefully help get you get as close as humanly possible to the silver color from that piece of thread that fell off the Mother of the Bride's dress.
And YES! We know, these are not food products and are not meant to be eaten. They are however non-toxic, beautiful and safe to use in close proximity to anything that will be eaten.
So, any area of the cake which is decorated with these powders should be removed prior to serving (gumpaste flowers, molded fondant, etc). If you're wondering how we decorate the side of a cake and remove the gold or silver powder, you can download our cutting guide HERE. We have ALL of our fondant cakes cut this way for a few reasons. First, it is the safest way to make sure any decoration on the side of the cake that shouldn't be eaten isn't. Second, we've found it to be the absolute best way to cut a fondant cake without making a huge mess. Now, let's take a look at these...
Now Watch How Easy It Is! Just mix with a little vodka or lemon extract (for quick drying).
Now, wanna be that person who's always in "the know"?
We've finally added a
NEW STUFF category to our beloved little site! So in case you miss one of these-here Newsletters (how
could you?) you'll always know what new tools, stencils, and must have goodies have sprung from The Evil Cake Genius's little brain.
She's even added some stuff that's so new that there hasn't even been a newsletter for them yet. So, go ahead, peruse the NEW STUFF section, and then amaze your cakey friends by predictionating the Evil One's next move before the newsletter comes out. Go ahead, mess with their heads a little, that's what friends (and small children) are for.
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Step away from the Craft Knife!
Marvelous Molds have arrived at Evil Cake Genius!
If you've tried these molds, you already know that they're truly the best out there. They have a patented cutting edge that will save you so much time, you'll have to break out your Evil "Bwa ha ha" and the detail...don't get the ECG started. The tiny facets and depth of these bad-boys will blow your cakey mind!
What could possibly make these self-trimming molds any better? What if they were made in the USA? Check! How about if they could tolerate up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit? Check!
Oh, I know, how about if they had the incredible MARINA SOUSA design a
line of molds? Aaaaaaand CHECK!
This is the mold that started the Evil Cake Genius's obsession with Marina's designs. The floating borders on this cake are pure glam! The ECG doesn't even want to think about what these would look like painted as Blue Topaz or Ruby, her head might explode from sheer jewel-y nirvana, so you're gonna have to try it for her (send pics, dear God, please!!)
Marina has designed an impressive line of brooch molds that will work perfectly on any wedding cake, from classic to Art Deco. How many wedding cakes have you done with a fondant ribbon sash with a brooch that took WAY TOO LONG to make? Knock it off, get yourself a couple of these, and have a little "me time". They're life-size, so they're also perfect for any shoe or purse cake! Once you have them in your kitchen, you'll find that they are your go-to to turn any ordinary cake into something extraordinary in minutes! Is it hot in here?
She's killing us!!!
That's it, I'm starting to think that this Marina Sousa person is trying to kill the Evil Cake Genius. No, seriously, the ECG's brain is about to explode with beauty overload!!!
A band of gilded rhinestone-centered jewel-flowers? If something happens to the ECG, you'll know who to chase after...AVENGE ME!!! But first, make something with this Splendor Border Mold, it's too beautiful, the ECG can't die in vain.
Fabulous Filigree
Oh, that's fair Marina (if that IS your real name). Just finish the Evil Cake Genius off with Molded Filigree elements that are so detailed and perfect that...wait.
The Evil Cake Genius's face is numb. Nope, can't feel her face. Oh, that's just great. She wanted to tell you that these filigree elements would be unbelievably beautiful painted with our Evil Cake Genius Gold Powder, especially on a black background, but...
Op..garg...
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Why does the Evil Cake Genius know what you need before you even know?
Nope, she did NOT make a deal with the devil.
She just happens to be a Cake decorator too!
So when something drives her mad, she's pretty damn sure it's driving you guys a bit nutty too.
Let's begin today's airing of grievances with
CAKE DELIVERIES
The ECG has been delivering wedding cakes for 20 years. And she can say with certainty, that nothing tops off an all-night-decorating-session like getting the cake loaded into your car only to have some jerk tailgating your precious cargo like he's whipping around on the Autobahn. Slow your ass down, Guenther, there's an under-rested, over-caffeinated cake decorator in this car, who's gonna protect that cake like it's her only fricking child, even if it means taking on-ramps at 15 miles per hour and getting passed by bicyclists and stroller-pushing nannies.
But wait! Lay off poor Guenther...he knows not what he does!! Which is precisely why we bring you our new Cake On Board Car Flags
They're simple, straight forward, and will most likely be received better than the ECG's first choice, the "BACK OFF JERK" car flag. They're double sided, and heavy-duty, made to hold up at Highway Speed.
We took it for a spin on our last delivery, check it out!
Not only did we feel a little more understood, but the cakey support from other drivers was downright palpable. Have you ever gotten the
thumbs up from someone who missed a green light because you accelerated at a pace that would embarrass a tortoise? Well, we have! All hail the Cake On Board Sign!
We're so sure that this flag is going to bring you cake delivery Nirvana, that we're having our first ever FLASH SALE!!! (now over)
For
24 hours only, we're taking
25% off car flags. No need to enter a promo code, they're just marked down on our site, but ONLY FOR 24 HOURS!!! So don't move on this as though you've got a cake in the car! Step on it Guenther!
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