Princess Castle Cake

Every little girl dreams of being a princess (thanks to Disney!).

You can create this magical castle with wafer cookies, heart

candies, ice cream cones, pastel candies and pink frosting.

Frost a three layer cake and decorate with the candies and

cookies. I used two types of ice cream cones. buy the pink

cake cones to place upside-down on the cake.

Add the decorated (with pink frosting swirls)

waffle cone on top of the pink cones. This gives each cone

height.

Go to www.SweetArtFactory.com to buy our soft pink color gel, cake

decorating supplies, decorating tips (we used #16 star tip) and bags.

Easter Cookie Ideas

Celebrate Easter with beautifully decorated cookies for

your Easter baskets or table decorations. They also make

wonderful gifts. Go to www.SweetArtFactory.com for a

variety of Easter cookie cutters, quins, food colors and

decorating supplies.

Cat Crazy

For cat lovers, we used our Quilt Cat Cookie cutter, super black and
pink Americolor gel paste colors to create these easy to make cookies.
Go to www.SweetArtFactory.com for your supplies

Candle Cookies

Put another candle on the birthday cake!

Our Candle Cookie Cutter is great for birthday cookies and

using to create fondant shapes, brownie cut-outs or craft

templates for cards and scrapebook pages.

We used a variety of Americolor gel paste colors to

decorate these cute candle cookies.

Go to www.SweetArtFactory.com for supplies

Swan Song

No ugly duckling here! Celebrate with this easy to

decorate swan cookie. Our Swan Cookie Cutter is

perfect for your springtime and baby shower parties!

Lazy Ladybugs

Create these lazy ladybugs with our ladybug cookie cutter,

super red and super black food color gels and decorating bag

and tips. To get wonderful cookie and icing recipes, go to our

Recipes on our main website, www.SweetArtFactory.com

Spring Flowers

Create these springtime flowers with our variety of

garden flower cookie cutters, quins, food colorings and

decorating supplies - always found at www.SweetArtFactory.com

We used Faux Fondant to decorate the flowers.

Hats Off to Moms

Hats off to MOMS!! Celebrate your mom with these

adorable hat cookies. With our hat cookie cutters and

easy-to-create decorations, you'll bring sweet smiles to

the one you love.

Make Jill's Faux Fondant and you're ready to decorate

with cookie icing.

It's Strawberry Season

Every spring our family looks forward to the strawberry stands
that sell fresh picked strawberries. This year the strawberries
have been sweeter than ever! Enjoy these sweet strawberry

cookies for your spring & summer time parties.

Use our Strawberry cookie cutter, Super Red, Black and

Leaf Green Americolor gel paste to create these easy-to-make

cookies.

Graduation Cookies

It's that time of year to celebrate the accomplishments

of our loved ones. Using our Graduation Hat and Diploma

cookie cutters, you can create a platter of cookies to

congratulate your graduate. Decorate with the school colors

using our variety of Americolor gel paste colors.

Making Jill's Faux Fondant

Owner & Creative Director of Sweet Art Factory makes her own fondant. She calls it Faux Fondant. Since fondant can be quite expensive and bland tasting, Jill creates her fondant using marshmallows, powdered sugar and a variety of clear flavorings (her favorite is almond flavoring). With just six easy steps, you'll be ready to decorate cake, cookies, brownies and cupcakes!

Ingredients:

1 16 oz. bag on Minature Marshmallows

2 lb. Confectioners Powdered Sugar

2 Tbsp. Gum Paste Mix (we sell 2 oz. jar)

1 Tbsp. Clear Extract or Flavoring (we use Almond)

Shortening (to coat your hands when mixing)

Step ONE & TWO

Place marshmallows in a microwave safe bowl. Heat for 1 minute. Stir and add your extract or flavoring. If not completely melted, heat at 20 second intervals until you can stir it and it is very smooth. Do not overheat.

Step THREE

Pour confectioners sugar in a large bowl. Mix in the Gum Paste Mix. Create a well in the center. You want to make sure that when you pour the marshmallow mixture into the bowl, it does not touch the sides.

Step FOUR

Pour the marshmallow mixture into the sugar bowl. Coat your hands with shortening. Begin to bring the sides of the sugar into the marshmallow mixture. Slowly add the sugar into the mixture. Eventually you will have a dough. If too sticky, you can add more confectioners sugar.


Step FIVE

Continue to knead the dough until it is a fondant texture. If you are not going to be using it right away, store it in Saran Wrap or Ziploc bag. Make sure you create an airtight seal. It should last about 2 - 4 weeks.


Step SIX

To create colored fondant, just add some food gel color into center of fondant. Knead the fondant until all the fondant is the color you desire.




Now, you're ready to roll it out and decorate!


Whether using fondant to decorate cookies, cakes, cupcakes, brownies, create figurines etc., you'll love working with this faux fondant.

Below is an example of rolling out the fondant and cutting shapes using our cookie cutters. Once the shapes are cut out, use a pastry brush to brush some water on the cookie before placing the fondant shape on top. The water will act as a glue for the shape to stay in place and dry nicely. Once you are finished, you can decorate the cookie using cookie icing.