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Sweet Sixteen Cake by Kerri

Chocolate Belles — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:41:25 +0000

Kerri, a client of Chocolate Belles, shared with us the picture of the Sweet Sixteen Cake she made:

Here is what Kerri said about making this beautiful cake:

This was a Sweet Sixteen Cake for my best friend; my present to her. All materials were supplied by Chocolate Belles along with reassuring pep talks. Thanks guys!

If you have purchased any cake pans from our store, attended our cake decorating classes or simply were inspired by what you saw on our website, please share the photos of your creations with us and our readers.

Graduation Cake by Trina

Chocolate Belles — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:14:19 +0000

One of our clients, Trina, who is also an avid blogger (Suth Life) has shared with us her latest creation – a graduation cake she recently made:

Trina, has share with us another beautiful cake she made few months ago.

This is what Trina wrote about making the cake shown in the picture above:

I had a blast making this for some close friends. Their son graduated from highschool and he wanted a chocolate cake with strawberry torte. Love buying the fondant and colors from Chocolate Belles. Thank you again, Chocolate Belles!

We would like to thank Trina for sharing her amazing creation with us. If we inspired you to bake a cake – please share the picture of it with us.

Royal Icing Flowers- A Recap From Our Last Class

Chocolate Belles — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:32:15 +0000

The week before last Tuesday our class was focused on learning how to make cake borders. The last Tuesday it was all about flowers. Our students learned how to make Morning Glory, California Poppy, Petunia and Lily from royal icing.

In the short videos bellow Ann demonstrates how to make your flowers.

Making California Poppy in Royal Icing

Making Morning Glory in Royal Icing

Making Lily in Royal Icing

Making Petunia in Royal Icing

It Was All About Cake Borders Last Tuesday

Chocolate Belles — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:24:31 +0000

Last Tuesday (July 13, 2010) we started one of of our cake decorating classes – the “Tier Cake Class“. As the name of the class says it, it it for those who would like to learn how to make tier cakes- which all of our students will have a chance to do at the last day of this class. But we are not quiet there yet. Some times we need to start with basics.

Last Tuesday during the class we have learned how to make different cake boarders. So here are some we made.

Bellow are some videos we made during the class, so it can serve to our students as a reminder.

Making Seascroll

Making Seascroll in Icing

Making Zigzag Border

Making Reversed Shell Border

Making Shell Border

Making Embelished Shell Border

Stay tuned for the recap of our tonight’s class!

Learn How To Make Tier Cakes

Chocolate Belles — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:20:11 +0000

On Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Chocolate Belles is offering another cake decorating class – “Tier Cake Class”. This class is a 4 weeks long class (on Tuesday night for four weeks in the road). The Tier Cake Class designed for students who would like to learn how to decorate multi tier wedding cakes. During the class students will learn how to make lattice cradle, net flower, more advanced borders, flowers and much much more.

If you are interested in attending please click here to register.

Beautiful Fondant Cake by Rebecca

Chocolate Belles — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:11:12 +0000

One of our clients and student, Rebecca from Toms River, shared with us today her beautiful creation – a fondant cake she made for her daughters Baptism:

Rebecca also left a very kind note:

Thanks you for teaching me how to make a cake! You made it very special for me to be able to make this for my daughters Baptism. I am looking foward to take some more classes and decorate my next cake. thanks! Rebecca!!

Congratulations Rebecca! What a great job!

New Payment Method Available To Our Online Shoppers!

Chocolate Belles — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:57:48 +0000

Chocolate Belles is excited to announce a new payment method available to our online shoppers. Since the time we launched our online store we have chosen PayPal to be our primary payment processor for our online store. The final phase of the purchase, however, always took place on PayPal’s website. This cause some inconvenience to large number of our clients. Last Wednesday we have upgraded our PayPal account which allows our clients who may not have PayPal accounts to use their credit or debit cards on our website:

The communication between Chocolate Belles website, and PayPal takes place over an encrypted connection, using the industry’s high standard encryption methods to insure the safety of your information.

We hope that this new payment will streamline the shopping process and will improve your overall shopping experience with Chocolate Belles.

New Products: Lace Molds For Fondant

Chocolate Belles — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:22:03 +0000

Today we have added a wonderful new collection of lace molds by CK Products to our online store. These lace makers are perfect to help you decorate your next fondant cake. Make sure to subscribe to Chocolate Belles’ video blog- in the next upcoming video Ann will show you how to use these lace makers.

Flowers and Leaves Lace Maker Mold

Butterfly Lace Maker Mold

Flowers Medallion Lace Maker Mold

4.5 inch. String Of Flowers Lace Maker Mold

Flowers With Scrolls Lace Maker Mold

Scallop Lace Maker Mold

Memorial Day Sale: Save 10% On Online Orders With Chocolate Belles

Chocolate Belles — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:20:38 +0000

Just a quick note to our readers, fans and visitors. The Chocolate Belles is having a special sale for Memorial Day. If you place your order with us now through June 15, 2010 you can save 10%. At the time of the checkout enter the following coupon code to get your discount: MEM10. This offer valid through June 15th, 2010 so place your order now. The offer valid only for all online purchases- click here to start shopping.

About Chocolate Belles Network

Chocolate Belles — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:43:29 +0000

Out of over than 30 years in business, The Chocolate Belles has only began to build a presence on the Internet in November of 2007. In fact, it was rather towards the end of 2008 that our website began to take shape and resemble what you see now.

We have come a long way since those humble beginnings. We now successfully operate a network of websites that help us to better serve our clients and stay connected with them. Today we would like to present you with the different ways you can stay connected with us- The Chocolate Belles Network.

The Chocolate Belles Immediate Network

The Chocolate Belles immediate network consists of a group of websites directly operated and owned by us by us.

The Chocolate Belles Online Store

Our online store has gone through a recent major upgrade, but the things should be familiar to our clients. This part of the website allows visitors to our website to purchase the products online. While we have more than 150 different products in our online store, it is only a small fraction of all the products we carry in our store. We are adding new products to our online store every day – if there was something you could not find yesterday- there is good chance you might find it today!

The Chocolate Belles Blog

This how our website has started to begin with! We will continue to keep and update our blog on regular basis, sharing tips about cake decorating and candy making, showcase the work of our students.

If you are interested about future updates to our blog, you can subscribe via e-mail to be notified whenever we publish something new on our blog.

The Chocolate Belles TV – aka “video blog”

This on of the latest additions to our website. Recently we began to make videos to capture portions of our classes as well as to demonstrate some of the products we carry.

This part of the website will feature our videos which we publish to our YouTube and Viddler channels. You can also subscribe to be notified via e-mail whenever we publish new videos.

Chocolate Belles Extended Network

In addition to own the above listed websites Chocolate Belles is using other websites to promote our products and services and to communicate with our fan base. So here are few places where you can find us.

The Chocolate Belles Fan Page On Facebook

Our Facebook page is a good way to stay in touch and on top of all important news about Chocolate Belles.

If you are a Facebook user, please visit our page and and it to your favorites.

The Chocolate Belles Online Video Channels.

We have chosen to host our web videos on two websites: YouTube and Viddler. If you are active user of either websites we would love if you can subscribe to our videos. We have received great feedback from our friends and customers about the videos we made so far, and we are very excited to continue to make videos in the future. These videos will also be published on our video blog, but if you prefer you can subscribe to our videos on YouTube and Viddler.

The Chocolate Belles Twitter

Yes, you can fin us there also! Feel free to follow us on twitter if that is your preferred Twitter over other ways to keep in touch with what is happening at The Chocolate Belles. Please do not expect us to answer the private messages on Twitter, as we rarely use that feature – the best way to communicate with us is our website just use out contact form.

The Chocolate Belles Friendfeed

Danger zone! Only super-addicted-fans should follow us on Friendfeed. It’s by far the most comprehensive method to stay on top of all news from The Chocolate Belles- it combines our blog, our video blog, our tweets, our YouTube videos, our Friendfeed updates.

So what do you think about our network? Did you know we are “present” on the above mentioned websites? What surprised you the most? Would you like to see our “presence” on other similar websites?