New DVD Coming Soon!

WHAT COULD IT BE?

It's going to be a good one!

It is almost ready!

We will be taking pre-orders soon!

Stay Tuned!

Sharon

www.sugaredproductions.com

And the Winner Is................

JUDI!!!

Judi guessed the right colors! YAY Judi!

But since we had such a great response to this contest, I did a random drawing from all of the entries and pulled 3 MORE WINNERS! YAY me!

Ann (Miss Sweetstory)

Jana

The Cake Queen

You guys need to email me at sugaredinfo@aol.com to claim your prize from the list I will provide you.

Note: Many guesses came in via email, so if you do not see a winner's name in the comment section, please do not call the contest police. I assure you there is no cheating allowed at SugarEd.

I had a lot of fun with this one, and you guys seemed to also. Some of your answers just cracked me up. We will surely do this again in the future. Thank you all for reading my blog and hanging out here with me. Love you guys!

Sharon

www.sugaredproductions.com

Guess the Colors!

Hello Sugar Babies!

Here is a baby shower cake I just did. It was a very unusual color combo for a rather unconventional mom to be. I thought it would be fun to turn it into a little contest! (The crowd roars!)

Whoever guesses the 3 main colors used in this cake will win a prize! The 3 main colors are in the stripes, rattle and bow. The black (clay gun strings and dots) is not one of the 3 colors. You do not have to guess the base color. The winner will get to choose one cake tool from my site (from a list I provide.) The first person to guess correctly will win. If no one guesses the correct answer by Thursday, I will do a random drawing of all the entries to pick a winner.

Is SugarEd fun or what??

Want to learn how to make this style and shape of cake?
Stay tuned................

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We Want Classes!

I get a lot of inquiries about coming to teach in different parts of the country and how that all works. Sometimes a cake club or a shop owner with sponsor the classes, but anybody can host a class. Here is the info:

If you want to host a class, you will need to find a place to hold us for 2 days. Each person needs 4-5 feet of table space depending upon what we cover. We can customize a class with the topics you desire. The minimum number of people depends upon my traveling costs to get to you, but it is usually around 10- 12-15. Once you find a place, and we agree on the dates, we determine the class cost (usually $200-$250 for 2 days with lunches provided, but students need to bring some supplies). Then we put the word out about the class and I start collecting deposits. If the minimum number of students is not reached, then the class is canceled and deposits are refunded. Please let me know if you have any more questions!

Now put your thinking caps on guess the colors

of this wacky baby cake!

Good luck!

Sharon

www.sugaredproductions.com

SugarEd Classes In Texas!

The Pearland Cake Society will be having a Day of Sharing on May 3, 2009 in Alvin, Tx (suburb of Houston.)

I will be doing a 2 hour demo on a name brand knock off purse with a champagne bottle inside. Other demonstrators will be Dena Bryngleson, Kim Wilson, Jacque Benson, and Carolyn Mangold. And let me tell you, these ladies kick cake butt! Lunch is included for the Day of Sharing.

On the 4th, I will be teaching 2 mini classes: a 2D carved fish and a stack of 2 books cake. You can sign up for one or both classes. Click here for all the info:

http://www.pearlandcakesociety.com/

Or email with questions: lopezclarissa2@aol.com

Please join us for the fun! I hope to see you there!


Sharon
www.sugaredproductions.com

Bow Loop Dryer

Hello Sugar Friends!

Hope your weekend is starting off right. I have tons to do this weekend, and don't know where to start. I kinda feel a hamster on a wheel. No, hamsters look too much like little possums. Scratch that analogy.


Anywho, I have gotten hundreds, no thousands, no billions (OK, a handful) of emails asking where I got the bow loop dryer I use in my Boxes and Bows DVD, and how can they get one? Well: 1) it's not mine, and 2) you can't get one. Bummer.

The rack I use in the DVD actually belongs to Wendy and her hubby made it for her. I don't have a picture of it to post here, so you have to watch the DVD to see it. (Ain't I slick?)


But , have no fear. I have found another great rack that you can actually obtain! A gal on Cake Central posted this one that her hubby made from PVC piping.

All the arms swivel to any position you want. You can use it for drying flowers, bow loops, tails and more. You can also slide fatter pipes over the arms to make more open loops. I bought one from her, used it and loved it. Worked great and holds a lot too.

JaimeAnn of Cakes by JaimeAnn and her hubby are making these and selling them. I think the price is $35 plus shipping. You can contact her for more info and to order one: CakesbyJaimeAnn@bak.rr.com

Disclaimer: SugarEd is not affiliated with JaimeAnn nor her husband in any way, nor do we get monetary benefit from the sales of these racks. I do not know JaimeAnn nor her husband. Heck, I do not know if they even really exist. They could be androids, or aliens, or Disney animatronics for all I know. So once you leave this blog, I am out of the loop.

Have fun!

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CALLING ALL CAKE PHOTOS!

If you have a cake you are of proud of that you made after using techniques taught in our DVDs, then send them on in! I will post them in the blog to show off all you great cakers! Send a little description with the photo and a website link if you would like me to include that. Please send photos to sugaredinfo@aol.com and enter "Blog pic" as the title.

Have a great weekend. I am off now to try to get my head together and get some stuff accomplished!

Happy caking!

Sharon

www.sugaredproductions.com

Easter Special... FREE DVD!

HAPPY EASTER!

Buy any 2 Instructional DVDs and
receive a copy of our
Design Gallery DVD for FREE!


Instructional DVDs include Perfecting the Art of Buttercream,

Flawless Fondant, Successful Stacking
and Boxes and Bows.

The free DVD will not show up in your shopping cart at checkout, but you will receive a confirmation email that you have qualified for the free gift.


Offer expires April 12, 2009

Daring Bakers: Lasagna!

WHAT THE HAY?

Daring Bakers want Sharon to cook?

As in food?

As in gather ingredients, chop up stuff;

take the pans out and do something with all that to create.......
a meal??

Do they know me at all?

Sharon does not cook much. At all. OK, never.

Sharon does not care for cooking.

Sharon gave that up decades ago when the obnoxiously

picky eaters she lives with proved it to be a futile effort.

And to add insult to injury they want me to make lasagna? Do they not know I am married to a 100% pure blooded Sicilian who will eat no other Italian food besides his mamma's? Did I do something to piss off the Daring Bakers?

Well, being the stubborn me that I am, I did not let these obstacles deter me from my challenge. I expected to either throw it away cuz it would totally suck, or end up eating it myself for a whole week until it was all gone.






The March 2009 challenge was hosted by Mary of Beans and Caviar, Melinda of Melbourne Larder and Enza of Io Da Grande. They have chosen Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna from The Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper as the challenge. If you want the recipes, click on the hosts' sites above.

For this challenge we had to make our own homemade spinach pasta, and use a recipe for bechamel sauce and a meat ragu. Alrighty then! The only thing I have used my pasta machine for is fondant and gumpaste. But make the pasta I did. I totally screwed up the recipe and had to add about 3 more eggs to make it kneadable and non brick-like. I knew this was gunna be bad from the get go.




I made mine as rolls, rather than the traditional layered casserole because, well, that's how I roll. HAHA. I crack myself up sometimes.



J saw the green pasta and asked what the heck was that? I told him I was making lasagna (which he does like) and that it was broccoli pasta and he would love it. I told him it was broccoli because he loves broccoli and if he knew it was spinach he might not even try it.


Well, later that evening as the lasagna is baking he comes into my office and says,

J: Mom, that stuff has spinach in it?
Me: Getting nervous and pretending I did not lie earlier: Yeah, it does.
J: You said it was broccoli. I saw a package in the garbage can that said spinach.
Me: (Busted!) I did? Oh, I just said the wrong thing. It tastes just like broccoli. You won't even taste it in the lasagna. Trust me, you will like it.
J: Yeah, whatever.



OK, so I know for sure he's gunna hate it.

And hubby hates all things white sauce and not made by his mom Gina. But, I must forge on as any true Daring Baker would do. I will get my photo shots for the blog, get credit for the challenge, and move on with my miserable lie filled life.



OK. At least he agreed to try it. He looks miserable. But he does that a lot when I take pictures.

What do you think J-Man? He gave it a thumbs up, but in a cool teenager kinda way. (See the one little thumb up?)

He likes it! Hey Mikey!

And guess what else. Sit down. P-Daddy liked it too! I nearly fainted. I did not tell him it had white sauce in it. God, I am such a dishonest person. I need to go to confession.

SO, for the first time in about 20 years, 3 people in my household liked and ate the same thing on the same night! Check the Book of Revelations cuz the end of the world must be coming soon. Or Hell is frozen over. Something freaky is going on for sure!

So does this success mean Sharon is going to start cooking on a regular basis?

When pigs fly!