We had yet another very successful evening. Our student learned how to make spiral ribbons and flowers for their fondant cakes. Below just two samples. More pictures and video clips from our class coming soon. Big THANK YOU to all our students!

During our Introduction to Decorating With Fondant class we teach our students how to make different flowers. Bellow is the collection of 8 videos filmed during our class. Combined they are about 20 minutes in length. In the videos bellow Ann shows how to make a fondant rose.

If you are planing to decorate fondant cakes, you might consider investing into some basic tools such as fondant mat and rolling pins. We recommend silicon mats and rolling pins. To roll out your fondant use confectioners sugar sprinkling it over the mat and the fondant to prevent fondant from sticking to your mat or your rolling pin. If rolling out fondant to cover a cake you need to consider in the height of the cake. For example of you need to cover a round cake that is 10 inches in diameter and 3 inches tall, you need to roll out a round piece of fondant that is 16 inches in diameter or more. It is always easier to cut off the access fondant rather than trying to stretch it. Rolling out fondant is not a difficult step, roll it out as would your dough. Watch the video bellow to see how.

Today you can purchase fondant that is already colored. You are making a cake in deep colors such as black or red you can use a pre-colored fondant. However you can color your white fondant into any color you want using food coloring. The same food coloring you would use to color your butter cream icing. In the video bellow Ann shows you how to color your fondant. You need to start by adding very little food coloring at the time, using a tooth pick. If you want your fondant to be a deep color you need to gradually add more food coloring to it.

We are extremely excited to let our readers, visitors and clients know that on March 17, 2010 Chocolate Belles launched our own YouTube channel. We plan to use YouTube to publish some of the videos taken during our cake decorating and candy making classes. We will limit the videos to only the ones containing the most important portions of our classes. And yes we start small. Very small! Our first video is only 26 seconds in length. It shows what are students were about to learn during the first night of the Introduction to Fondant Cake Decorating Course on March 17, 2010. More videos are on the way! If you are subscribing to our blog RSS feed or e-mail, you may need to visit our website to see the video bellow.

We are very excited to introduce a new feature on our website. Now you can register for our cake decorating and candy making classes from home (click here to see our upcoming classes). The goal of this article is to provide you with a step by step guide on how to register for a desired class.

How To Find And Register For The Desired Cake Decorating or Candy Making Class?

The following page contains our upcoming classes. Once there, you have several options on how to navigate the calendar. We recommend using the “months” navigation located just bellow our logo:

The days on which there are scheduled classes are shown in bold:

If you click on the day in bold, the calendar to the right will change to a daily view:

You can then hover with your mouse over the class and a short description of the class will appear:

To register for the class click on the desired class and the following window will appear:

Click “Book Now” button for the following window to appear where you can login or register if you are the first time user:

Once you enter your login information (or if you are a new user once you register) you will be redirected to a secure page on PayPla where you can pay for the class. If you do not have the PayPal account you still can pay with your credit card- see the image bellow (click on it to see it in full size):

You can always call us if you have any problems with the above described process.

It it is that time of the year again. Last year a lucky winner took home our giant 3ft tall chocolate easter bunny. We are having the contest again this year. All you need to do is to guess the number of jumbo jelly beens in the container (shown bellow) and George, the chocolate bunny will be yours! It would be a good idea to stop by our shop (click here for directions) where you can see both the bunny and the jumbo jelly beans. However if you would like to participate from home, please use the form bellow to submit your guess.

The winner will be determined on April 2nd, 2010 at 3:00PM.

This contest is open only to those who would like to pick up the bunny in person. We are not able to ship or deliver the bunny at this time. If your are the winner but are not able to pick up the chocolate bunny, the next closest guess will be chosen as a winner.

Only one entry per person using the form bellow.

1. Your Name(required)
2. Email(valid email required)
3. Your Phone #:(required)
4. Your guess:(required)
5. Verify What's In The Image

 

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Trina, one of our clients, who also blogs at Suth Life share pictures of the beautiful cake she made recently:

You can see more pictures at Trina’s Blog.

Here is what Trina wrote about making here cake:

This was a sweet sixteen cake that I made last week. I bought the 5 lbs. of Wilton’s fondant to make the city skyline of buildings for the outside of the cake from Chocolate Belles. I also purchased the colors, the silver dust, star mold and white chocolate from them as well. The cake was a white cake with a buttercream icing and raspberrying filling. The family absolutely adored the cake and others in attendance loved the moist, scrumptious cake! I couldn’t be anymore pleased with the results. Thank you, Chocolate Belles!

Thank you Trina for sharing your pictures with us!

If you have attended our classes in the past or used any of our products to make cakes, please feel free to share pictures of cakes, candies or whatever else you have learned to make with our readers and visitors. You can do so by visiting the following page.

Debbie, one of our students, have sent us the pictures of the beautiful chocolate egg she made. If you have any pictures to share with us please feel free to use the following page to submit them to us. Don’t forget to check out our upcoming decorating classes.

Great job of making your panoramic sugar eggs Debbie, Dawn, Lisa, Jenn Nicole Matthew, Toni

and Cathryn!  Thanks for a wonderful class!