Cricut Cake Class and Winners!

Hello Sugar Friends!

SugarEd Productions and Sweet Ideas the Cake Shoppe will be hosting a 2 day Cricut for Cakes class.

Taught by the incomparable Sweet Southern Ladies, Martha and Becky.

Come learn all about the new rage in cake decorating: how to use the Cricut scrap booking machine to make appliques to embellish your cakes.

August 1-2, 2010

Robert, LA

Please email Wendy for all the details: wendybcakes@yahoo.com

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Winners of the DVD idea contest are:

Niccicola

Cheley

The Sugary

Thank you all for entering your ideas and email us to claim your prize at sugaredinfo@aol.com


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We are off to the DC area this weekend to vendor at the NCACS Cake Show. Please come see us if you are in the area!

The Bleeping TLC cake post will be up next week, I am still working on it. That's a lot of photos to resize and upload!


Everyone have a wonderful, sweet and delicious weekend and I will check in with you all next week!

Sharon
http://www.sugaredproductions.com/

The Bleeper part two

Thank you all for the outpouring of support and love since yesterday's post. It really has warmed my heart and made me feel better about all of this.

I am who I am and will not apologize for that. I am fiery, very verbal, emotional and animated. That is me, not a show. And I like me very much. Yep, I cuss sometimes. I am human. Yep, I get mad and frustrated. I am human. I use a lot of colorful language to express myself, but most often it is safe words like frap, frig, crapola and things like that. Do I say real cuss words? Yes. Is how they portrayed me on the show true to me? No.

There are some in the comment section of my blog that still feel the need to judge and chastise me. So be it. If my blog and TV appearances offend you, then stay away. And if you are too much of a coward to use your name when posting, then what does that say about your integrity and character?

I know I have set myself up in the public eye to be criticized. And I cannot have everyone like me. That is fine. I have never portrayed myself as a saint, perfect, or free of flaws. I am a cake decorator who wishes to share my love and passion of the art with the rest of you, and try to make a little bit of a living while doing it.

When I no longer deliver good quality cake decorating instruction at a valuable price, then all criticisms will be warranted on that topic.

That is the last I will say on this subject. Thank you again for the overwhelming support. Now back to the fun stuff!

Love you, Sharon

Sharon The Bleeper

HEY GUYS!

Did you watch the show? Did you enjoy it?

I will have a full post up this weekend with all the juicy details and all the photos, but I want to address 2 things on last night's show that were misleading.

First let me address this comment to my blog:

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Watch Teambito On Ultimate Cake Off Monday!":

What a filthy mouth for such a family show. I will never watch when you are on this show again. Not just mild words but ones my kids could tell what you said even though they bleeped you out. went back and counted what was shown 49 bleeps must be some kind of record for family tv.

Dear Anonymous,

Knowing your name would be easier to address you, but since you chose not to stand behind your words, I will post my reply here:

The bleeping on the show was way overdone for what was reality. ( And I highly doubt 49)

1) I did say "shit" once which need to be bleeped.

2) When the fondant was tearing I said "It is tearing like a son of a ----" and I did NOT finish the sentence. I said nothing else despite how they made it look. They added a bleep there for drama.

3) When the pole would not go into the hole, I was very frustrated yes, and saying "friggit!", not the other F word. IF you look at my lips you can see what I was saying. Again they added long bleeps for drama.

4) There were also bleeps added when my face was off screen and I was not even saying anything.

They apparently decided, that since I was feisty, showing a lot of emotion, and using "pseudo-cuss words" a few times, that they would go crazy with the editing and bleeping and make me look much worse than I really was.

Second issue:

During the skills test. I had not piped BC roses in about 20 years and I said so many times on camera. I also said that I knew mine were crappy, Pat's were perfect, and she had it in the bag. What I actually said during my interview was "I felt confident that Pat won the skills test because BC roses are not my strength." And they clearly edited my words to say: "I felt confident because BC roses are my strength".

Folks, this is a semi scripted TV show, not a true cake competition. They make it look the way they want it to look. They took many shot of words and facial expressions for all 3 of us and inserted them out of context, to tell the story they wanted to tell.

That is TV. We signed a huge contracting waiving our rights to complain, and giving them freedom to edit us anyway that they wanted.

I am no angel, I do cuss at times, but I have more sense than to let it rip on national TV in prime time. I was using my arsenal of safe "ugly words". Nothing other than the one "shit" did I say that really needed to be bleeped, but they saw the opportunity to create high drama, and did it at my expense.


Believe me if you wish; do not believe if you do not wish.


But I felt the need to clarify, and reiterate that things are almost always not as they seem on TV. Take it all with a grain of salt.


There, I have it off my chest, now back to the fun of caking!


I will put a full post up this weekend full of good stuff after I get my wedding order out the door.


Love you all,

Sharon

Watch Teambito On Ultimate Cake Off Monday!

Tomorrow night! 8 PM central time.... TLC

Watch us crazy a$$ girls get our cake on!

If they edit it right, it should be a very entertaining episode. I sure wish/hope they show more of the whole team. This competition is not about one person (the leader), it is truly a team effort. Our cake was a team effort from the design phase thru the execution. It was our cake, not my cake. My gals are the three best ladies anyone could have on their team. I am so very grateful to them for all the hard work, and moral support (yes I was very needy) throughout the whole process. No matter what the outcome, or how they edit it to make us look, I am so very proud and honored to have stood beside these 3 amazing women:

WENDY BAIAMONTE

ADELE LIND NICHOLS

BECKY WILLARD

and

REBECCA SUTTERBY

because she was a "silent" team member thru the whole thing as well. She gave design and structure advice when we asked, and was incredibly encouraging in every way. She was even on phone stand by for 911 crisis calls we had while in LA! And she saved our butts on a couple of things too!

I love all four of you to pieces!

If I come across as a crazy, mean lunatic, nut ball, I blame the editing. If I come across as delightful, witty, brilliant and skilled, then it was all real. Depending upon which way it goes, I might be entering the federal witness protection program Tuesday.

So everybody tune in tomorrow night, have fun, and don't take it too seriously!

Lova ya!~

Sharon

Sheet Cake DVDs on Sale Now!

The new DVDs are ready!

Sheet Cake Secrets takes you through three cakes from start to finish.

Learn run sugar, two tone icing, fondant and buttercream borders.

Airbrushed frame, chocolate transfer, fondant grass and accents.

Airbrushed hills and clouds, royal icing plaques, frozen buttercream transfer, and more buttercream borders.

Each cake has its own lagniappe section. Almost five hours of instruction on two discs!

AND EVEN MORE........

The Sheet Cake Bonus DVD teaches you even more techniques!

Drop shell border, airbrush highlights, royal icing message.

Bottom buttercream borders.

New Tools too:

fence cutter

rope twist cutter

daisy cutters

Come see at SugarEd Productions!

Fleur de Lis Candy Baskets

HELLO DEAR SUGAR FRIENDS!

I have missed you all so much, and I am sorry I have been MIA on the blog. Preparing for the Ultimate Cake Off show, during the Christmas holidays, trying to get both the new DVD and website launched, and the chores of daily life took over for a while. It has been a crazy few months for sure. But things are settling down now, and I will be back to posting regularly.

The new Sheet Cake Secrets and Bonus Lagniappe DVDs are ready to ship. Sadly, the new website launched Wednesday for all of 30 minutes before we had to pull it due to a technical problem. I am frustrated and regretful about the delay; but I assure you that the web techies are working on it as we speak. My gut tells me it is going to be a few more days before it is fixed. Please hang tight because I promise the new DVDs will be worth the wait!

AND we are shooting our next DVD this coming Monday! You ask for 'em, we make 'em!

In fact, we are looking for suggestions for topics for our next 2 DVDs. So if you post a suggestion in the comment section here, you will be entered into a drawing for a free gift! I will give away one of the new tools featured in the sheet cake DVDs! Yay! I love give-aways!

So post your ideas and good luck!

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In honor of the Saints big Superbowl win (WHO DAT!), and it just ending Mardi Gras season here, I want to share with you these fabulous fleur de lis candies that my talented and awesome sister Barbara made. She made these beautiful baskets as Christmas gifts this year. But fleur de lis are always in style, and always in season!

My beautiful sister with her baskets.

These are made with the Spinning Leaf Oreo cookie molds. They have all kinds of molds for different shaped cookies, in many fun designs. The molds are very easy to use as well, and they work great.





These were made with molded white chocolate. The molds can be found here. The gold color was achieved by using the PME gold luster spray in the can.

Each cookie was put into an individual bag and tied with a ribbon.

Beautiful.

Just a gorgeous gift basket.

Get yourself some of those molds and give it a try.
It really is a lot of fun!

I hope to be back this next week with the announcement that our new DVDs are ready to order. Stay tuned!

Sharon

www.sugaredproductions.com

Classes by Rebecca Sutterby

Rebecca Sutterby is a world renowned and award winning cake artist. She has been featured in countless magazines, and has won first place at the Oklahoma Sugar Arts Show National Wedding Cake Competition. She will be offering beginner and advanced classes in her home state of Kansas. This is truly an incredible opportunity to learn from one of the best cake artists in the nation.

Please visit her website to see her incredible work at Sugar Creations.

If you have the opportunity to take one of her classes, do not miss it!