In this video, we learn how to transport & store your decorative cakes. First, you need to consider what icing you covered your cake in. If it's made with butter cream icing, you should store it in the fridge for a couple days before transporting. Also, if you're making a whipped cream icing, this needs to be refrigerated before you transport it as well. There's a whipped icing mix on the market today that you can buy, but don't have to refrigerate. If you've covered it with fondant, place th...
What's better than delicious, fluffy cupcakes and ice cream? Delicious, fluffy cupcakes FILLED with icing! We're totally digging this comfort food love child, and you and your kids will too this Halloween.
Are you still trying to get perfect, smoothly iced surfaces on your cakes by trying to even globs out with a spatula? While in the end all cakes, whether perfectly iced or messy, go down the same way to our little bellies, but if you care for presentation, then check out this cake decorating video.
Pretty cookies can't exist without icing. Sure, plain, undecorated cookies are nice and taste great, but adding even just that one coat of royal icing takes the experience from tasty to sugar fantasy.
This video is about how to make an ice cream cake. First step is to lay the first ingredient which is the Ice Cream Sandwiches on the pan. Then, start spreading the cool whip on top of the Ice Cream Sandwiches. The next ingredient is the chocolate syrup. Just simply squirt it on top of the cool whip. Then, the next ingredient is the candy bar. After wards, crush the candy bar before opening it. After it is being crushed, start pouring the bits all over the cake. The remaining big chunks from ...
Garden of Imagination shows you how to create a very small ice cream cone out of polymer clays. The lady shows to add some texture to the cone before adding the ice cream portion on to the top of the baked cone. There is even a cherry on top of the lovely small ice cream cone when you are finished. This tutorial is a slow and close up view of making this ice cream cone. The perky voice and calm explanation of the process makes this video simple and easy to follow along to and to create your v...
Looking to take up a new sport? How about ice skating? Ice skating is great for the legs and body, and great fun! Follow this advice and you will soon be gliding like a champion.
This is a video recipe for royal icing. To keep your gingerbread house from collapsing, plain old icing won't do – you need royal icing! It's also great for decorating cakes and cookies. Learn how to make royal icing with this guide from Howcast.
Learn how to make relaxation candles using ice and wax.
Ice skating for the first time can be a little nerve wracking. Learn some beginning techniques on how to skate from our ice skating expert in this free video clip series.
Did you know that July is National Ice Cream Month and that the third Sunday of July is National Ice Cream Day? In this how to video Dr. Diana teaches you how to make ice cream at home in ten minutes without fancy equipment.
In this video, we learn how to make and decorate a diva heart cake with roses. Start out with a heart shaped cake and then ice it with a light pink icing and place it in the freezer. Once it's settled, roll some fondant into small balls and then stick to the bottom of the cake all around it. From here, color fondant with hot pink and then roll into the shape of a rose. Then, cut out green leaves from green fondant and stick with the roses. Then, decorate this all around the cake along with ic...
In the mood for a little mad science? In this home-science how-to from Steve Spangler, we learn how to prepare a bubbly, color-changing concoction using water, ammonia, a universal indicator (cabbage juice will do fine), dry ice, gloves and two plastic cups. Now, repeat the process, this time adding a teaspoon of ammonia when you add your universal pH indicator.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make vegan peanut butter ice cream. To make this, you will need: 2 c soy milk, 3/4 c peanut butter, 1/2 c brown sugar, and 1 tbsp vanilla extract. First, place a saucepan over high heat and add in soy milk, brown sugar, and peanut butter. Heat until it's boiled, then remove and add in the vanilla extract. Combine everything together until well mixed together and pour into a bowl. Freeze in an ice cream maker using instructions that came with it. Once this is ...
Photoshop allows users to create all sorts of cool text effects, some of the most popular of which involve creating firey or icey text for titles. This video focuses on the latter, teaching you how to combine several effects in Photoshop to create really cool letters that look like blocks of ice. Give you titles some flair! But don't get flares anywhere near them...
Blondies are perfect desserts - they're like brownies and cookies smooshed together and taste great with ice cream. If you need an amazing treat to serve for your kids, try this delicious recipe. Take Oreos, blondies and ice cream and blend it all together into a blender full of amazing yumminess.
Check out this tutorial for advice on how to make a long-lasting, reusable ice pack that will not leak for cheap. These ice packs conform to any shape you need, stay cold for a long time, won't burn your skin and won't leak! To top it all off, they cost less than a dollar each! So, keep one of these in your freezer in case of emergency and you're good to go. Toss those pricey, leaky blue packs and opt for this homemade version.
These cupcakes look a lot harder to decorate than they actually are. Using food coloring, icing, and clevery piping, you can herald the coming of summer with the pretty deliciousness of this sunflower cupcake.
Looking for an easy way to create 3D abstract art? Have Photoshop CS3 or later? Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial from TutVids. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to create your own custom three-dimensional ice sculpture and how to create and apply textures, watch this graphic designer's guide.
Are you interested in parties and cocktails? Let's make a Jagermonster cocktail. Start with a rock splash and ice it up a little bit. Next, get another glass for an ice mixture, one ounce of Jagermeister, and a little bit of grenadine. Then, add 4 ounces of orange juice. Shake it up well for a good mixture, get rid of the previous ice in the glass, and pour it in. This will provide a variety in your list of cocktails.
This video shows you how to make a classic sweet martini cocktail that you can use for an entertainment surprise. The first public recipe was published in 1888. A dry martini has very little vermouth. A sweet martini has a little more vermouth. A perfect martini is a mixture of dry and sweet vermouth. To make the sweet martini cocktail we use a cocktail glass not a martini glass. Get the glass cold by putting ice and water into the glass. Get the shaker tin and put ice, 1 1/2 ounce of good gi...
Create a Dancing On Ice sparkling smokey eye makeup look with the makeup tutorial from Lauren Luke, aka Panacae81.
Learn to make beautiful gingerbread houses with graham crackers. Graham cracker gingerbread houses are quicker to make than actual gingerbread houses. This is a fun and easy project to do with the kids. All you need are graham crackers and royal icing. Watch this how to video to learn how to securely assemble a Christmas graham cracker gingerbread house with royal icing.
Learn how to mix the king of cocktails--the Martini! The martini was originated in the middle 19th century.
Learn how to make these buckminster fuller-inspired buckyballs from ice-cream cones, then deploy them in unexpected locations as a kind of biodegradable graffiti. this is a how-to video with original guitar composition by Julian Mock.
Remember when you were five and you had a blue crayon and a yellow crayon but all you really wanted was a green crayon? Just as you would mix colors in coloring and any other artistic medium, you sometimes need to mix icing colors in cake decorating.
There are certain challenges within a pastry chef or cake decorating aficionado's career in which the just average practitioners are separated from the Wolfgang Puck-like ones. This intense and impressive tree cake is one of those challenges.
In this amazing video, Nick goes into great detail showing you all of the steps that you need to take to get the same look as the Winter Olympics promo commercials! Starting in Cinema 4D with the construction of the ice cube, and then into After Effects to finish everything else up.
For great looking fog, you no longer need to go to the local film prop store or Halloween store (which is almost always closed 11 months of the year). You can make your own homemade version of a fog machine.
In this two-part cake decorating tutorial, learn about the birds & the bees! Nope, not that kind - the cake kind! Learn how to make a small ladybird & bumble bee out of fondant icing to decorate a spring or outdoor-themed cake. These toppers can also be used to adorn cupcakes and other creative treats!
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make "hot ice". Users will need sodium acetate. Begin by putting the sodium acetate into a pan. Add a small amount water to the sodium acetate. Heat the mixture on a stove until the sodium acetate has dissolved. Pour the solution into a container. Do not pour in any undissolved crystals. Put the container into the freezer or refrigerator for a while. When the solution cools down to room temperature, take it out. Touch the sodium acetate and it will...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make "hot ice". Begin by adding water into a pan and heat it until it’s simmering, but not boiling. Add the sodium acetate to the water. Keep adding the sodium acetate until the water cannot dissolve it anymore. Stir constantly. Now pour the solution into a glass or container. Do not pour in any undissolved crystals. Place the solution into the refrigerator for 45 minutes. Now pour the solution into a container. The liquid will instantly turn into ...
So, Dad's Birthday is coming up and you want to make him a specialized cake. "What are his interests?" you ask yourself. Watching football, baseball, Wheel of Fortune? Do all his hobbies include a sofa and a television perhaps? Then why not make him a cute living room cake!
This video shows how sublimation works. The instructor shows how to mix bubbled water, ice water and dry ice to create dry ice smoke. He is essentially making a hand made fog machine. This task must be done carefully because if the solution is isolated and concealed it will build pressure and possibly explode. Take extreme caution in doing this home experiment. The instructor also shows you how to make music spoons using temperature changes on the metal.
Learn how to make LED ice cubes with this tutorial! Steps:
This is an awesome joke you can do on an unsuspecting friend or coworker. Learn how to pull a soda prank using Mentos ice cubes. Watch this practical joke how-to video to find out how to carry out the soda prank on someone using a Mentos frozen ice cube and soda. Everyone loves a cold cup of soda, so they won't be able to resist some frozen ice cubes rigged with Mentos inside. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
Check out this instructional kickboxing video that demonstrates how to do a right cross or a cross punch. The cross is considered the power shot. The cross is a reliable kickboxing punch, and is great in competition. Learn the skills of kickboxing in this video on competitive kickboxing moves.
Yes, I know it's autumn and the trees are losing their leaves, but the seasons do not decide when I can or cannot enjoy ice cream. No matter how warm or cold is is outside right now, I will remain completely fascinated by rolled ice cream. Yes, rolled.
Watching an ice cream pro build you a custom frozen treat mixed with your favorite fruit, candy, and/or toppings makes buying a cone even more exciting. But why go out for ice cream when you can create your favorite combinations in your own kitchen? While you might not have an expensive frozen slab for ice cream topping your kitchen counters, you can mimic the creamy consistency and customizable options from Cold Stone Creamery and Marble Slab any time you're craving it. Best of all, you don'...
Fairy cakes are basically lovely little cupcakes adorned with pretty icing and "fairy dust" - AKA sprinkles - for a nice ethereal effect.
