How to make marzipan mushrooms

Whether you are making our stumplike layer cake, a more traditional buche de Noel, or even holiday cupcakes, there’s a wide variety of lovely options for...

Our Martha Stewart yule log cake has rum-spiked layers, a filling of chestnut frosting, and is decorated with rich chocolate frosting and marzipan decorations. Here's how to make and decorate this whimsical cake from start to finish.

April is a major birthday month in our household! Kyle and my mom share the same birthday in April, and our dog Langston also shares this birthday month with them! Hooray!!! I love birthdays! I love baking, and I love decorating, and birthdays give me the chance to spoil my loved ones with both! Last year I made a couple hundred mushroom cake toppers for our wedding tarts. And I wanted to share a quick and easy tutorial how to make these darling little cake toppers. 1.SUPPLIES - air dry…

Stump de Noël is just as festive as the Bûche de Noël, but perhaps a little easier to make. It has delicious mulled wine flavor infused into the chocolate cake layers and it's filled with black cherry buttercream.

German Yule Log on a white platter with marzipan pinecones in front and marzipan mushrooms on top, candle and red berries behind

What does your family eat for dessert at Christmas dinner? In my family, our Christmas dessert for years and years was the traditional steamed Christmas pudding, served a-flame; however a few Chris…

Almost every party – from a weekend one to some special occasion – can boast of delicious desserts, often cakes and cupcakes. To highlight that it’s a

Along with the late fall mushrooms that seem to pop up everywhere, so too begins the holiday season, full of good food, friends and family and tasty sweets. In an effort to mix a little nature education in with our sugar rush, we decided to make models of wild mushrooms out of marzipan. Whether bought at the store or made at home, marzipan can be easily rolled and molded almost like play dough. Mushroom shapes can be simply crafted and embellished with coco powder... ... or a little natural…