Sweetopia has made my baking life easier. She has really cute printables listing the weights of all the common baking ingredients. I have changed the way I bake by weighing all my ingredients with a kitchen scale. It makes less dirty dishes and is very accurate, which produces much more reliable yummy results. Pouring ingredients into a bowl on top of a scale also keeps my kitchen a little bit cleaner. No more sugar and flour coating my counter tops from measuring spills. Well, not as much.
Half Baked is very inspirational. I've spent hours looking at these cakes. I promise that you will see the most beautiful cakes on this website. Watch out, it will make you want to become a cake decorator.
Best Friends for Frosting has recipes, party decor ideas, and interviews with professionals in the baking community. A lot of trendy party themes and dessert items to get ideas from.
Sweetapolita is where I learned that simple is sweet. She doesn't do any of that Wilton fluffy wedding decorating. It's definitely more of a bakery style of decorating. Beautiful colors, wonderful creamy frostings, and of course great cake recipes.
Bake at 350's cookies are the absolute cutest, but she definitely has some desserts recipes that I'd love to sink my teeth into, and they aren't all cake.
Design Seeds allows you to search beautiful color palettes by picking one color you are fond of. The combinations are amazing. I love to browse and imagine what my house would look like with one of their color schemes. It's rather time consuming to try and recreate these colors in icing or frosting for cookies or cakes, but I do have my favorites that I'll try one day.
Colourlovers features many pattern for inspiration.
Inspiration for creative projects can come from anywhere really. My recent favorite tv series is Downton Abbey. I would love to use some of the patterns from the clothing, especially since you can see an obvious art deco influence at the end of the third series. Martha Stewart always outdoes herself. And where would we all be with out Pinterest? My day is not complete until I've spent at least 5 minutes there. On a side note, I'm excited to say that I figured out how to edit the html for my blog so that you can easily pin any of my pictures to your Pinterest board!!!! All you have to do is hover over a picture and you'll see the "pin it" button appear.
I am sure that you all have heard of Wilton, and it is definitely a great site. I feel like they take the latest trends and then create products that allow you to copy them. I see this mostly with their newest pans such as macaroons, push pops, whoopie pies, etc. I've taken some Wilton classes, they are fun and I would take more to learn new skills.
But because they are so good, and so good at over doing it, I have to share some of their oldies. My sister has a Wilton cake decorating book from 1997 and she sent some of the pictures to me so we could laugh about how much decorating styles have changed. Sorry for the poor picture quality.
Swing your partner round and round....
Is this a gingerbread man in his pajamas? Weird.
I feel so proud to say that my cookies look better than this.
And my personal favorite....Rabid Elmo.
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