A couple of weeks ago, I took you on a fun photo tour of Cake Art Party Store (cakeart.com) – a great little cake supply place I visit often. But, what I didn’t show you is all the candy making supplies they have. I’ve bought lots of stuff from them to make cake pops. Most importantly… candy melts. What would I do without these things. They come in 1 lb. bags of dark and milk chocolate as well as tons of colors…
… and flavors. Did you know these things come in peanut butter? They also have some mint flavored ones if you like.
Now, if the 1 lb. bags aren’t enough for you, then throw a couple of these five pounders over your shoulder. FYI, these are superwhite vanilla coatings, not to be confused with white. Same thing, only brighter. And, if you buy a bunch of white candy melts, then you might even want to try tinting your own. It’s really easy.
Just add a few drops of this stuff to the melted candy coating and color away. Make sure it says candy color, though. Regular food coloring contains water and will mess your chocolate up. I mean it.
100% Cocoa Butter. If I actually knew what I was doing, I would tell you all about how to use this stuff. But, I don’t. The only thing I use cocoa butter on is a sunburn. Besides, it was sitting right next to the candy colors, so I took a picture of it for you.
Gigantic caramel chunks anyone? I’ve never used these, but they definitely catch my eye every time I walk down the candy aisle to get lollipop sticks. Actually, my mouth is stuck together right now just thinking about them.
Ahhhh, sticks! Thank you. Fat ones, skinny ones, paper ones, wood ones, short ones…
… and long ones!
Or if you’re afraid of being stickless… bulk ones.
Of course, you’ll want something to stick them in to let your cake pops dry. Styrofoam works great.
These are the medium peanut butter cup molds I use to make the Cupcake Bites. But, don’t let these limit you…
Check out the endless variety of candy molds. They have them for just about anything. Any occasion, hobby or interest you can think of.
I’m waiting for when I can use these.
You can really get creative with the molds. Fill them with solid chocolate or add flavored fillings.
Using squeeze bottles makes it easier to pour chocolate into the molds.
And you can use brushes to paint on the molds with different layers of colored candy melts.
These are candy writers. They are really handy when you just need a little color and quick.
Just place the tube in a bowl of hot water to melt the candy and it’s ready to use.
They come individually in several different colors.
Or try out the box set.
Oils. Need some banana cream flavored chocolate? Bubble Gum? Cranberry? How about root beer or mango?
I’ve used the orange flavor before when I made these orange-colored cake pops. The oils are super-strength and pack a bigger punch than normal extracts – so, you’ll just need a few drops.
A lot of people have asked how to make their chocolate thinner. These paramount crystals do the trick. Just add a few pieces at a time to the melted candy coating and stir until they completely disappear. But, you can also use regular old shortening.
Miniature cutters. These are an alternative to the ones I use from Williams-Sonoma to make Cupcake Pops. The flower cutter on the left is the one you want. It comes in this Ateco set #4848.
Cello bags. These have a bronze/brown tint and they come in lots of sizes. I usually just use small clear plastic treat bags for the pops, though.
Look at these. I’ve never really paid much attention to these foil candy wrappers. I don’t know why. Probably because there’s just too much stuff to look at in this store. But, I definitely want to try them out soon. I’m thinking turquoise! No purple!
You could wrap some cake balls in foil and then place them in little candy cups. How cute!
Seriously… rock them Roche-Ferrero style.
Or you could place them in truffle boxes. I love boxes. Especially little ones.
More boxes.
I saved my favorite for last. Americolor edible ink pens. These have made cake pop decorating so much more fun for me. I started out buying these black ones. They come as a 2 pack. I’ve used them to draw eyes and smiles for cake pop faces and also on fondant covered cupcakes.
After buying the black ones over and over, I finally gave in and bought the full set of ten colors. The day I took these pictures they were sold out. Gone. MIA. Sorry.
But you’re in luck.
Since then, I’ve been back and snagged a couple of sets.
And I’m putting them up for grabs. Yay! Here’s what they look like.
Don’t worry. These are mine. I wouldn’t give you opened ones.
Here’s a few examples of how I’ve used them in the past.
And, here are the new ones I am giving away to two lucky winners.
A set of Americolor edible ink pens in assorted colors
- Just leave a comment on this post and let me know how you would try them out. Cake pops? Cupcakes? Sugar cookies? Potato Chips? Whatever.
- Leave your comment with a way for me to contact you if you win (either a blog link or email)
- Deadline to enter is
Monday, June 22nd at 6 p.m. (recorded by the time stamp of your comment)TIME’S UP – WINNERS BELOW! - Two winners will be chosen at random* and announced Monday evening on this post.
Good luck!
* using the Random.org integer generator
And the winners are…
Comment #188 – Brittney
Comment #2153 – Jodi
Yay! I hope you have as much fun with the pens as I have. And I want to see pics of your work!
I want to try them on cupcakes…and to venture into fondant to do so…
Summer
swidhalm@yahoo.com
these would be great to try on cookies and cupcakes!!!
I'm really enjoing your cupcakes and would love to try those markers on them. I love your blog!!!
Jade
jade_lynn_@hotmail.com
Oooh! I've never been able to find these in stores. I'd love to use them with the gluten-free sugar cookies my partner makes, since I'm the official cookie decorator. Or we could use them to do some cute faces in the new fondant we picked up…
Ooohh….let me count the ways I could use those darling pens!! I envision cakepops, cupcakes, candy pops, oh my!! I wish we had such a baking mecca close to home!
Michelle
michlfc@aol.com
Wow, I did not realise this store was close to where my parents live! I will have to visit it sometime…did not know you were Georgian. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, my! I would love to shop at that store! It looks awesome!
I would love to try the pens on sugar cookies. I'm so cookie decorating challenged.
Thanks,
Julia
jewelie121@netscape.net
This looks like such s fabulous place to shop…good thing I live close to Tucker!
Im thinkin if I don't win I will need to head over there and get some pens for myself!
i would use them to do the smiley face pops…and do some fondant work also!
I would try them on cake pops! I've been looking for them around here for a while. Thanks for the source!
These would be great for decorating cookies. Yum…
Ooo, what to try them on first? I'm thinking cupcakes, royal icing flowers, sugar cookies, etc. The possibilities are endless. :)
tressa@shutterlychic.com
I would love to use these pens on anything I bake! I'm hoping to make summer themed cupcakes next week for a family vacation, the pens would be great for drawing the beach on my yellow buttermilk cupcakes!
Kalen
kaherm@gmail.com
My daughter is going to have a cupcake party for her 1st birthday and I'm definitely going to use it for that!!
What a great store you have there!
I would use them to embellish royal icing on sugar cookies.
What an amazing store! I've never so much as attempted cake pops – yet!! I might have to start out with a fondant cupcake to get my creative juices flowing but oh my…what fun!!
~vee
I would like to try the on cake balls. They look so cute when you use them! I didn't even know they exist!
we have only a few food pens so far but we've used them on marshmallows and cookies. My daughter wants to use them on everything! :)
ktscrapbooklady@gmail.com
http://scrapbooklady.typepad.com/
These would be such fun for sugar cookies!
I am a newbie at this cupcake decorating thing….but i am officially OBSESSED!!! So…with that said…. I would love to try them on EVERYTHING edible!!! Love the store pics… makes me want to go shopping and buy ALL of that fun stuff!!! Thanks!
p.s. i made those insanely cute hamburger and fries for Father's Day and they were a hit!!!
heathervaclaw@yahoo.com
or
http://www.arkansasvaclaws.blogspot.com/
I would use them to decorate the cookies I want to make and sell for a charity softball tournament I am putting on for the Wounded Warrior Foundation.
Kimberleking@yahoo.com
P.S. Do you know if there are any stores like this in Los Angeles??
amazing stuff! I would love to try these on cake pops.-Bree
drewnbree@hotmail.com
I would use them on everything – I have 5 grandchildren to make cakes, etc. for. Karen_Pallas@ml.com
I wish I had a store like that where I live!! I would love the pens
Cake pops for sure! I've been jonesing to make some more!
Ugh, I wish they had that store in Canada. I've been searching around for good cake supply stores in my area or even a bit further off and I've had little luck! The arts and crafts store has a little section for cake supplies but its all Wilton and they don't have much :(
I would definitely try those markers on the cake pops and cupcakes! I haven't made cake pops yet because I can't find the markers! Sheesh!
these are adorable, i would use them on everything!
jr8419@aol.com
What a neat store! I'd like to try the pens on cupcakes. Once upon a time the kids used some on cookies.
I would love these pens – I don't have any around here and the only ones i can get my hands on never turn out right on my fondant or gumpaste figures. Very jealous of your store!!
I would use them on Cake Pops or yummy brownies! :-)
Brittany
Britty003@hotmail.com
I would love to try them out on cupcakes/cake pops for my son's 7th birthday that is coming up!
the kids and i would have a blast using them on sugar cookies. i wish i had such a fabulous supply store near me.
Oh my, I would probably spend hours in this store!
I love your work- it's made me start baking a lot! :)
I would use them in cupcakes!!.. or chocolate…
I love them!!
siimonetha@yahoo.es
I would love to try them out on Cup Cakes! My b-day is tomorrow and my friend is supposed to make me some chocolate chocolate chip cup cakes with mint frosting of some sort. (We are working on starting a baking business together!)
I would be tempted to try these on just about anything that comes out of my kitchen!
I love them for writing on fondant shapes. Awesome!
I want a store like that here. A person could go crazy and broke there.
Kris
kristenesherwood@msn.com
These would be great for personalized cupcakes or cookies for my girls to take as "Welcome Back to School" treats for their classmates.
Diane Du
yerbud@juno.com
I would like to try them out on some sugar cookies.
these are so cute ive looked for them everywhere and couldnt find them.
abercrombiejen76@aol.com
oh man! I would use those on everything. mostly it would give me an excuse to try some of the cool things on your site!
OOOH my daughters dirthday is coming up, and i am going to make hula cupcakes!!
I would LOOOOVE these!!
Would definitely use them on cupcakes or cookies. What fun!
Becki
tupperbecki@yahoo.com
i would love to use these on everything!!
jr8419@aol.com
I definitely would use these on cupcake pops. It gives you so many more options!
I'd use them on cookies!
I think they'd be super cute on sugar cookies!
Oh, and I tried your Father's Day dessert – they were a big hit! I have pictures on my blog. Thanks for the recipe!
Always up for a new toy :)
I really wish that we had a store like that in this area!
I would use them on my daughter's carebear cake I'm hoping to make for her birthday!
beckychart at gmail dot com
I would try them on cupcakes. After I try rolled fondant for the first time!
I would love to try these on the graduation cake pops I did this week!
jessicacmalmeida@ gmail.com.
Love it!!
The last time my niece and nephew visited, I showed them how to use my food markers to "color" on carrottes [fun activity for them while I was making carrotte muffins]. But they were old markers, and didn't work very well at all. I need some new ones!
Wow – great giveaway! I'm a huge cake pop fan – I would definitely use them for that!
This store looks awesome! I'd use the pens on cupcakes! I really like the cupcakes you did with the faces!
triscuits!
lamrp26@gmail.com
I would try em on cookies and then try to make some cake pops!!! SO CUTE!!!!
kenquapah@hotmail.com
Would use 'em on cake balls for SURE! love your blog, you are the most creative ever.
I would LOVE to use them to deocrate sugar cookies with my niece. Baking and decorating cookies is our favorite activity!
starmnda@aol.com
Oh, my girls would love to use these on cake pops, cookies… In the Lehigh Valley, PA there is a neat little store that I use for many of my supplies – Bev's Cake and Candy. Online shopping can sometimes be cheaper, but there's nothing like walking the aisles and checking out everything in my path. Each time I visit, there's something new that I try.
I would love to win the edible writers! I have had the worst time finding them locally.
Rachel
rachescakes (at) gmail.com
I'd love to try some cake pops with my kiddos.
Hi,
I have just recently discovered your awesome site. I love everything you do and can't wait to try some of your ideas out!
ydujrab@aol.com
I would totally use them to decorate a cake.
suestuff at comcast dot net
I had no idea rhese came in so many colors! I would love to try these out on sugar cookies. And I can't wait to have time to run down to Atlanta and browse the store.
kristawmartin@hotmail.com
Oh, they are great! I would let the children I teach use them on sugar cookies: fantastic!
for cakepops.
where can i find a store like that in az?
Wow what a great idea. I hadn't known there were pens for cake pops. Well..I would make some cake pops and use the pens for faces.
Am quite fond of the doggie cake pops :)
VS
ooo I've been dying to try my hand at your cake pops! This might just give me the extra boost I need to do it!
I'd use them to make illustrated pies. (I'm crazy about drawing mandalas ltely — wouldn't they look great on a top crust?)
I want them…please! :) I would use them on cupcake! and cookies! and cakes! On anything really…So great.
Ok, I love markers of any sort, so edible markers are really awesome. I can't believe that store. It's incredible.
How fun are these! I'm a teacher and scrapbooker, so markers are my favorite! I'd love to try 'em out on the cupcake pops, get really specific with detail. Too much fun!
That store is amazing! I would use the pens on my kids' birthday cakes.
Debbie
dddahl@verizon.net
I would use them on my cookie pops.
I'd use them to detail this cake I'm making for a cake competition :)
what an amazing store..I want to go there!!
(ohstella11 @ yahoo.com)
They would be great to try with cakepops. My friend and I make them for our baking dates.
I want to make cakepops! I still haven't done that yet. I made the Father's Day Happy Meal though and it was so much fun! Thanks for the great ideas!
I would use them on cupcake decorations for sure. I have had so much fun trying out new news with baking. Thanks for the tour.
traci dot starkebaum at gmail dot com
Wow! What a store!!
I make bento lunches for my kids, and love drawing faces on their eggs and veggies and stuff – these markers would save me from doing it with tooth-picks and colors ;)
I would like to replace the set I have already. I tried to use them once, when I was trying to make baseball cake pops and had a horrible time getting them to write at all. I'm sure I'd have better luck with these.
I would try them on cakepops.
I would try them on cake pops (which would give me a reason finally to try to make them)!
senglish@phoneguys.org
I would love these puppies…I like to do a lot of fondant plaques for my cakes (easier than piping with bc or royal) so I would use them for this. Also for fondant figures. Please let this be my lucky post?!
cake pops or cokkies :)
mommyo @ gmail.com
I love to try them out of everything. Maybe even sandwiches to leave cute little notes in lunches.
these are fabulous. I just discovered your blog from Erin Condren's website. I love it – I can't wait to make some of the clever things you have on here.
bysuzann@gmail.com
I would definitely like to try them out on cake pops. But I would use them the most on cakes I decorate for b-days.
jubeejewels6@msn(dot)com
For me It would probably be the sugar cookies. I never knew you could use pens.
The smiley faced pops are what caught my eye! I would love to bring a batch into the office.. they'd match my coffee cup at work.
Kim
cinnamonskyes@yahoo.com
My little sister is getting married July 18th, and I would love to use these for some treats for her Bridal Shower!
-Angela
ang_wagner@hotmail.com
I have been wanting a set to try out on my sugar cookies! they don't carry them in any store near me and I have been dragging my feet on ordering them online….
My roommate has been bugging me to make some more cake pops, so I would either use them on those, or I would give them to my friend Jess who is exceedingly creative in the kitchen.
I have been looking for these! I have wanted to make the smiley face cake pops for a while now! Thank you for the ideas!
Jen
jray@csdm.k12.mi.us
i've been looking for an excuse to make some fancy cupcakes and i'd HAVE to if i had these markers!
I would use them on my cakes :) Also, I need a store like that :)
I would use them on cupcakes, cookies, and cakes!
suteneko ( AT ) gmail [ dot ] com
I would love to use them on hard candy "glass" to make stained glass windows for my gingerbread houses.
I would draw a tartan kilt on some scottish tablet!
leeannwaddell@gmail.com
Sugar cookies with my neice! how fun!
steph_itsjustme@yahoo.com
What wouldn't I try them out on? I mean, now I can write on anything my toddler puts in his mouth and not worry about it. :)
I would use them for cookies that I want to try for my anniversary with my boyfriend to surely impress him! It would be much easier to personalize and gain some brownie points ;)
tindanielle@gmail.com
Thanks! This post was great, btw.
I'd use them to make Patriotic themed goodies for 4th of July. Or to decorate Christmas goodies. Or for my daughter's birthday. Any excuse to bake goodies is fine by me!
I made some cake pops last fall for my son's soccer team. I guess I bought a cheapo brand because my markers didn't work at all (tried making them into soccer balls). :(
I'd definitely try them again with the good ones. :)
I've always admired your cake pops but never got around to trying them out. If I won the contest I would have no excuse not to finally bake some :) Thanks for all of your great blog posts and contests. –s.sainato@gmail.com
I would use the for cupcakes and cakepops for sure. My 5-year old would love them!
First of all, WOWZA…what an amazing shop. I don't think I would make it out of there…in less than 4 hours at least.
For the markers, I would use them to put details on my hardened royal icing for my decorated sugar cookies. I also decorate my cookies with marshallow fondant…think I could write on that too with them? I would try.
elizabeth.mick@cox.net
mickfamilyofthree.blogspot.com
I've been eyeing these and planning a cake version of my favorite online comic http://xkcd.com Stick figures are underrated as a decoration technique!
On a side note, I just discovered your blog this weekend and spent the entirety of Sunday evening/night reading it and would like to say thank you for all of the wonderful ideas.
I would finally try making cake pops! The perfect excuse, right!?!
(thehouseoncanary.blogspot.com)
Bakerella can I just say that I LOVE this post and the part one! It makes me itch to find a store near me that has all that fun stuff! You have helped me LOVE baking! I love trying out your recipes. I made the lemon bars and…http://okeydos.blogspot.com/2009/05/bakerella.html I would LOVE to win these pens!
I would love to use these pens on my daughters cupcake pops for her birthday. i made them last year and they were a HIT!!! i want to make them even better this year!!
love ya!!!
ajcolantuono325@hotmail.com
I would use them on sugar cookies!
cheechbean@gmail.com
I would love to try them on cake pops. I really want to make hello kitty pops.
And email: chengj724@gmail.com
Food writer markers are the best! I would like to use them on cake pops if I could ever make some cute ones and sugar cookies.
Those pens would be great for sugar cookies. :o)
pumpernickel@gmail.com
Cake Pops!!!…definitely!!!
Rebecca
rebeccagonzalezg@hotmail.com
I'm thinking sugar cookies!
Oh to decorate the hibiscus sugar cookies for sure! I know I can't do it with just frosting!
And maybe to add details to some bachelorette party treats.
I would love to try them on cake pops.
map1978@prodigy.net
I would use them on cake pops, then on some cake pops…oh yeah…I'd also use them on cake pops! These are awesome, I need to find a cake shop because I haven't been able to find any of these pens locally and I really need some for the…yeah, you guessed it…cake pops I plan to make for my son's graduation party!
I would love to try these out on my cupcake pops. I used the Edible Food Writer Markers by Wilton in the past on cupcake pops and they didn't work out so well. The ink just wouldn't transfer onto the candy melt. =(
-Rosie
lilrosie519@hotmail.com
I'm trying to learn more about cake decorating and am even taking a class in a few weeks…I would love to try these out on cupcakes!! they look soooo pretty!! btw, that store looks amazing!!! I wish we had something like that near me!
manda1285@aol.com
I would use them on sugar cookies!
I was looking at that store's website after your first post, and edible pens look pretty awesome. Throw my name in the hat!
I also want to say I am now a dedicated follower to your blog. Not only do you make some fantastic stuff but your explanations make me believe I can create the magic you do! Thank you!
Danielle
artspice76@yahoo.com
I would love to use these on fondant topped cupcakes, I have seen a few really nice ones that I have been wanting to try but the cake supply stores in my area only have black!
Meow!
Misha at
http://www.kitty-cakes.blogspot.com
I'm a newbie to decorating, so I'd probably play it simple and use them on cookies or cupcakes. I'm amazed at the talent involved and more than a little jealous!
I would try them on cupcakes!
I need those!!!! The other brands I've tried leave me SOOOO frustrated!!
meximus@sbcglobal.net
Definitely cupcakes but I am now wondering how they would work on sugar cookies.
I badly need it for the fondant baby figures I am going to make for a baby shower party.
Cecile
mcecilehart@yahoo.com
I still haven't made cake pops, so maybe on them? Otherwise, I think they would be great with my little cousins- decorate some sugar cookies with royal icing, let it set, and set them loose! They're 5 and 7. However, I'm not doing any baking until temps get out of the 90s!
Smiley peanut butter & jelly sandwiches would be awesome. Though mostly for cookies and cakepops I bet.
I would use these on sugar cookies. I think this would be a good idea for my husband for our 5th anniversary. Little love notes on cookies, Nothing is better than that!!
We're going to have a cake pop-making party at work during lunch. We're all fascinated with your creativity – and it just looks like fun!
Cupcakes, cakes and cookies! saraarowe(at)gmail(dot)com
I would try them out on everything…cookies, cupcakes, cakepops, deviled eggs, potato chips (maybe I could write love notes for my hubby and daughter on their chips for lunch), marshmallows, etc.
I would even love having your "used" ones!
I will use them on cakepops!!
I would have never made it out of that place… so many fun things. I almost bought those edible markers the other day myself. I have a birthday for my 4 & 5 year old coming up in July and Aug and thought they would be fun to decorate with. How long do they stay good?
I would love to try them out on fondant/chocolate figures. I am just getting into molding things from fondant and I love trying out new things.
I would use them on cupcakes and actual cakes. I love looking at everything you make!
oh, what timing…!
I wold like to make buckeyes (it's an Ohio thing), set them on their sides, place your graduation "caps" on them (at least the flat mortarboard part & tassel), and use these pens to draw expressions on the "faces on the buckeyes.
They would be gifts for my next door neighbor who just graduated from Ohio State!
Thanks for the tour AND for the marker offer! ;-)
I'm working on making a little fondant monkey for my nephew's b-day cake. I'd love to give those a try! You're the best! Keep up the inspiration.
Jolene
I want to write a love note to my hubby on an iced sugar cookie–he would love that!
sylviarj at yahoo dot com
To draw pictures and write notes on my sweet baby girls iced cookies!!
Karen
korman0731@hotmail.com
cake pops!!! :)
I would use the pens on sugar cookies to draw flowers. I think it would make elegant looking cookies.
tobyies (at) yahoo (dot) com.
I think I would make some cupcakes and turn my kids loose – they love to get artsy with food. You should have seen the elaborate Easter egg my oldest daughter spent forever painting. So fun!
I would love to try them on cookies!
tessy@tessybrooker.com
I have been dying to make some cake pops, so I would love to have a set of pens. I haven't seen anywhere around here that sells them. I did buy some of the Betty Crocker ones about a year or so ago to use to write on fondant, but they didn't work very well. The tips became too "brushy" once I started writing instead of staying pointed and made it very difficult to get a fine print.
~Stephanie
mom2_6girlz@ymail.com
Cupcake Bites for sure since I love making them! Sugar cookies would be fun, too! Sure wish I had a store like that close to me! But it's probably a good thing I don't- I'd be broke and fat!
ah, forgot the email…
teufelmiri @ hotmail.com
I would love to use these on iced sugar cookies to add little details.
I wish there was a store half that cool near me, but then I would be broke.
I would use them on cake pops.
cwilkinson@can.rogers.com
I love how you've used them. My daughter would be so excited if we won them. I think we'd do cake pops and cupcakes.
oooh!! i want to use them on sugar cookies!!
I would use them for everything. That would be so fun to write a love message in a can of pringles with them :) I am so jealous of your cake and candy store. I want one. Probably a good thing I don't have one, I would spend too much time and money there, but it would be oh so fun.
Hello! I would try them on sugar cookies!
I would use them on cupcakes. My Girl Scout troop is working on a badge, a piece of cake, and that would be perfect for them to use :)
Cupcakes. They look like so much fun.
cmriordan@wvi.com
I'd use them on cookies and cupcakes. Never saw pens like those in Holland or Germany, wonder where to find them! :)
I want to make Curious George cakepops. I've sketched them out but need markers for his face. I looked for these markers at two different craft stores to no avail. So, please choose me…please, please, please!
These would be fun for many things
I made my first attempt at cupcake pops not too long ago and loved them. I now want to try cake pops with people on them and these pens would be perfect!
I would use them on cupcake pops, when I get the guts to make them:)
Those edible pens would make getting into charaben (character-inspired bento boxes) so much easier. And making charaben would make packing a lunch more fun which in turn would make saving calories for cupcakes, likely drawn upon with said pens, and stuff a breeze. Thanks for the chance to win and the ongoing inspiration.
I'm going to try them on a cake.
Hi Bakerella! I just found your blog last week. I love it! Your pictures make me so hungry for sweets.
I'd love to try out those markers! I'm dying to make some wonderful sugar cookies with perfectly smooth icing!!
That store is incredible! So much bigger than the one in NYC. I would love to try these on cake pops!
Oh my gosh, I wish there was a store like that near me! Then again, if I want to have any chance of retiring, ever, then it's probably for the best that there isnt. ;-)
As for the pens, I would love to use them to make some cute cake pops. They're my latest obsession! =oD
kermieskat(at)gmail(dot)com
wish me luck! i want these!
ohh I'd love to try those out! I've just started really getting into decorating cakes and cupcakes! I have a two year old too, so any way to make food fun is a plus!
Oh my, that place looks like pure heaven! I wish we had something like that up here. On second thought, maybe it is good we don't!
I want to use them on my fondant cakes! There are some things a paintbrush and luster dust just can't do.
Hey there,
Thank you for showing us more about the awesome store where you get your supplies. I have shopping envy, for sure! ;-)
re: the pens: I would love to try drawing on a big tablet of white chocolate. Or maybe on a cake! :-)
omfg WHERE DO YOU LIVE?!?! xD You have like the best supplies near you. The most i can find is frosting. haha.
I never knew you could draw on food until now. I would really like to try these out on a bento. I've heard of bento makers using them on bentos and it seems alot easier than cutting.. which i miserably fail at doing. xD
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I thought I entered a comment, but I can't find the post. So I'll repeat…. I would absolutely looooove to win the markers; I would use them for fine details in my whimsical buttercream and fondant covered cakes (I've made giant legos, drowning surfers at the shore with lots of details, etc.), which I make for family and relatives' birthdays.
I am also sooooo envious of that store being so close to you!
About the cocoa butter, we use it in Puerto Rico to help heal scars, but of course food use is something else. Jacques Torres, the chef chocolatier from NY, melts and colors it with those candy colors, and uses them as oil paint to "paint" with brushes on a white chocolate canvas; he's done great artwork that looks like a real painting, complete with dark chocolate frames; amazing! I believe I saw this on a couple episodes of an old Food Network show, Chocolat. So if you are into trying this, keep me posted. I'm sure many readers would love your feedback.
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These are the coolest pens and I had no idea they even existed! I could write love notes on cookies to my husband. I can make diaramas in cookies representing the cute little neighbor kids who are alwayss sniffing around for cookies. Won't they be suprized when they see themselves! Thank you so much for showing these.
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I would like to try this on cake pops and cupcakes. msamson9@yahoo.com
I would love to try them to spice up my fondant accents on cakes that I do. FUN!
Thanks for posting! Love this store and will hope to stop by when I am in the area. I have never tried these pens… look neat!
dawn@dealfamily.us
I have a FL to NY road trip coming up soon, and I already added this store to my detour route. I can't wait to see it in person!!! I'd use the pens on anything to write little love notes on my honey
These are fantastic! I would use them on the many cake pops I plan on making. I also like to leave little notes in my daughters luch, I can use these to write directly on her food!
I would try them on some cupcakes, cakepops, icecream, anything! lol
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I would love to try them out on cupcakes, cakes, cookies!
Luciana Ratis
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I'd love to try them out on sugar cookies!
I can't wait to use them on sugar cookies!
Ok I would LOVE LOVE LOVE these for anything really but especially for cupcake pops, I have been looking everywhere for them up here in canada and they are hard to come by. tiffslo@telus.net
I want to use the pens on these Eiffel Tower cookies I want to make.
I love the site!
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I would love to have a set of these to try on some of your wonderful Cake Pops! I have been unable to find any locally. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Malinda
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My kiddo likes when I turn his ppj's into his favorite sesame street characters. these little pens might be better with detail than the decorating gels I use!
I've been wanting to do some 4th of July cupcake pops and this would be really helpful for that!
I would use them to decorate mini cupcakes. It's so hard to using icing tips on something so small.
kristine.rane@gmail.com
I love edible paint!! I would use them on anything I could – cupcakes, cakes, cupcake pops. If there were a way to use them in family dinner I would!
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Oh my gosh, I would be lost in that store forever!!! :)
I would love to try them on some of my cupcake creations.
-Julie
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OOOH, I hope I'm in time to enter this. Those pens are fantastic!! I would definitely try those out by making some cakepops, no doubt while being 'helped' by my 3yr old.!
That store looks amazing, I really wish we had something like that here :(
Cakepops and sugar cookies! So fun!
did you know that your fathers day burgers were featured on sunday sweets at cake wrecks? bakerella you rock! and maybe i would use the pens to draw happy faces on my 2 year olds vegetables to convince her that veggies are fun to eat. :) not really, but i would certainly use them on cookies and cupcakes. ive been experimenting with homemade marshmallow fondant…
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ps: i think the styrofoam in your pic are actually "cake dummies" to cover with fondant to look like a wedding cake. ive done a few of my own…
These would've been nice to have when I decorated snowman cookies. With my awesome icing skills (ha!) I ended up with snowblobs. Oh well, they tasted good.
I would use them to personalize cookies for my daughter's birthday
Kris
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ooooo… sooo many possibilities, eyes, faces, I have been dying to make a bulldog cupcake.. I bet they would work great for that. :o) Love everything you do Bakerella!
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