Last year, I was solicited to apply for The Next Great Baker’s season 4 show but then when I started the application process with my friend Esther, it was crazy the number of hoops they asked us jump through (they wanted … Continue reading
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Part of what it means to be Wicked Goodies is to be naughty as well as nice in the dessert department. However I understand that a certain percentage of readers get squirmy when it comes to body part cakes. For the … Continue reading
UPDATE I just added another ugly cake to my ugly cake portfolio. I was sifting through the old photo archives and found a doozy! Click below to see my “Ugly Mascot Cake” >> VIEW THE UGLY CAKE << … Continue reading
My modeling chocolate book is now available at public libraries in the following U.S. cities. That means you may be able to request it through your local network and check it out for free! Public libraries/networks that have my book Phoenix, AZ … Continue reading
Here is another peek back in time at my Valentine’s day baking adventures while working at a wholesale bakery in Charlestown, Massachusetts, U.S.A. I have some fond memories of seeing the sun rise over the Mystic river in the mornings … Continue reading
Happy New Year! 2014 marks the four year anniversary that Wicked Goodies has been in existence. In that time, it has morphed from being a custom cake bakery into a dessert blog into an indie cookbook publisher, which has been … Continue reading
Here’s how to build large gingerbread structures: by creating boxes and first allowing their sides to harden before adding roofs and stacking them. All the pieces should be decorated in advance and allowed to dry completely before assembly. It helps to designate an … Continue reading
VIDEO: Cake Drop In October, I made two fake bread cakes, one square and one round. Each one I decorated twice to make a total of four cake designs, including the one shown here. The decorating process was filmed and photographed … Continue reading
My “Chocolate Optical Illusion Cake” design is on the cover of the November chocolate edition of Cake Masters Magazine! > You can sample the article it here < > Or buy a copy of the issue here < You can also scroll down to … Continue reading
I blew up a wedding cake… VIDEO: Exploding Cake Special thanks to Jack H. for eating up the mess. Here is the cake that was filmed and photographed for a future publication. It was a FAKE BREAD CAKE. … Continue reading
It has come to my attention that a great way to relieve stress and anxiety is to punch cake. How this exercise in baker’s therapy came to pass was that recently, a fellow cake decorator friend of mine named Liz … Continue reading
Hot off the press! I’ve published a book called Cake Decorating with Modeling Chocolate. It was released yesterday in the U.S. on Amazon.com and can also be purchased internationally at the Book Depository. I will be working to make this manual accessible on other … Continue reading
This year, I entered a piece of cookie architecture in the Boston Christmas Festival’s Gingerbread House Competition, which helped raise money for Housing Families Inc., an organization that strives to prevent homelessness by providing shelter and affordable housing for local at-risk … Continue reading
In 2010, I was filmed making a giant cake for one episode (season 2, episode 4) of a Discovery Network reality television show called Fabulous Cakes, now syndicated on TLC. I was under contract to NOT blog about the filming for … Continue reading
This was my biggest gingerbread house project yet. It all began with paper, pencil, a yard stick, scissors, a vision and 100 pounds of gingerbread dough rolled thin to make gingerbread doors, gingerbread chimney and machine parts, bubbles for the bubble … Continue reading
Folks arrived in their sparkliest best dress to enjoy gastronomy to the nth power at the 2010 Gingerbread City Gala competition that took place on December 1st here in San Diego, California. There was a diverse array of amazing edible structures … Continue reading
Oh yes that’s right, folks. Winter is choo-chooing this way. It’s time for mittens and parkas and icicle-licking. In a few weeks, up go the wreaths, ol’ stockings, twinkly lights, candles, and spray-on window frost. Gee I wonder how many yuletide … Continue reading