Tips & Tricks from the Pros!

Satin Ice fondant has created some wonderful HOW TO videos with some of the biggest names in the cake industry such as: Elisa Strauss, Ron Ben-Israel, Anne Heap, Colette Peters, Buddy Valastro & Jorge Amsler.

To view these great videos, visit the Satin Ice website.

To purchase Satin Ice fondant in Canada, visit our online store!

Evening of Sharing with Bronwen Weber

In the spirit of sharing & caring, Flour Confections offered a free Evening of Sharing with Bronwen Weber this past Monday. Bronwen loves to be able to share her artistry with others and she graciously offered her time for this free demonstration. In return, we asked that participants bring non-perishable food donations for our local food bank.

Within 2hrs of announcing this unique evening, we filled all 40 spaces! Thank you everyone for your enthusiastic response and for such generous donations! We easily collected over 200 lbs of food!

Bronwen demonstrated her unique style of cake sculpting by creating the cutest sculpted dog named "Lucky". Within less than an hour, she had a completed dog from merely 3 1/2 sheets of cake, buttercream, fondant & an airbrush! It was amazing to watch the transformation!

We are very thankful to Bronwen & Francois for donating their time and skills to such an amazing event and worthwhile cause. Thank you everyone who made our event such a success! We hope to bring you more events such as this one in the future!

Airbrushing Skills & 2D Carved Fish with Bronwen Weber

Wow - the last few days at Flour Confections have been utterly AMAZING!








We have just finished hosting celebrity cake artists Bronwen Weber & Francois Long for 2 days of fabulous classes!





Word about our amazing celebrity cake classes has spread and on Monday we had a full house of enthusiastic cake decorators ready to learn the essentials to airbrushing on cakes.

As always, students were greeted with fresh coffee, tea, juice and snacks - no supplies were necessary - just an apron & a smile :)


The first half of the day we learned about the parts of an airbrush, the choices of guns and compressors, colour theory and the basics including lines, writing & blending colours. These basic skills continued on with us creating images on boards and buttercream.



After we all enjoyed our catered lunch and our signature triple chocolate cookies, we then learned the basics in carving a 2D cake.














Starting with a simple 1/4 sheet cake, we turned that into a fabulous fish! After carving and icing, we covered it in fondant and Bronwen taught us her style of fondant sculpting to add definition and character to the fish. Once defined, out came the airbrush to add life.



Everyone created such fabulous cakes and received so much valuable information - I know I no longer fear my airbrush - and I'm sure everyone else in the class felt the same way.

An Evening of Sharing with Bronwen Weber

An Evening of Sharing & Caring with Bronwen Weber

7 pm - 8:30 pm Monday August 24th 2009

Meet Celebrity cake artist Bronwen Weber during this exciting evening of sharing. Bronwen will be doing a short demonstration on cake sculpting. After the demo, we will have a short Q&A period.

Space is limited and you must reserve your space in advance.

This evening of sharing is free of charge but we ask that you donate non-perishable food items for us to give to a local food bank.

To register your space, contact us via email atclasses@flourconfections.ca

Going to Convention!

On Wednesday July 29th, I will be hitting the road with my colleague Karey and a car full of Canadian goodies! We will be making our way down to the ICES Convention in St.Charles Illinois to learn about what is new and exciting in the cake decorating world!
Be sure to check back with us as we will be sure to find some great new "toys"!!!

For more information about the convention or ICES click here

Due to our travels and the long weekend, our store will be CLOSED on Saturday August 1st and Monday August 3rd. Our on-line store is always open!

2 More Exciting Guests for 2010!!!

We've been pretty busy - not only creating cakes, but also hard at work bringing in new exciting sugarcraft items and securing some AMAZING guest instructors for 2010!

We are excited to announce that Mike McCarey of Mike's Amazing Cakes will be coming to our studio for a fabulous 2 day class on modeling chocolate in March 2010! Mike is known for his amazing sugar creations - his talent is beyond words! You will NOT want to miss a chance to study with this extremely talented artist! To view more information about the class or to register online and reserve your space, visit our website HERE

Also in 2010 we are hosting a 3 day class on sugar flowers & wedding cake designs with none other than James Rosselle of Elle Cakes! If you want to learn how to create life-like sugar flowers from one of the best - be sure to sign up right away for this class! For more information visit our site HERE

Happy Canada Day Eh??!!!!