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Sweetopia
www.sweetopia.net
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Women's lifestyle & sugar craft blog
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Sweet of the Month 4 & Cake Pop Roller Prize

Hello there! Its been a while! Lifes been busier than usual and Ive missed being here! If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen some of these pics already, but heres what Ive been up to: ...

3 days ago

Wedding Cookie Cakes

My baby brother Norman got married. I guess he’s not a baby anymore. And he married a wonderful woman, Stefanie. She’s beautiful… Inside and out. I love these two. For the wedding S...

30 apr 12 3 people like this

Buttercream Frosting Recipe & An Untold Sugar Flower Secret Revealed

It’s my second day of attempting roses, and I’m feeling the pressure. I thought I could do it. After all, the instructions are laid out in front of me in a beautiful photographic sequence...

26 apr 12 1 person likes this

Chocolate Beehive Cupcakes & Sweet Designs {Giveaway!}

Beauty. Elegance. Style. Amy Atlas, the creator of these gorgeous sweet tables, is releasing her first book, Sweet Designs, today. I think it’s easy to see from these photos, just a tiny taste ...

24 apr 12 1 person likes this

Making ‘dew drops’ for your sweets…

  I entered Hallmark with the intention of finding a card for a friend, and discovered a happy thing. The perfect cookie platter. There it was, in all it’s red and pink glory… The w...

16 apr 12 3 people like this

Cookie Cravings {Giveaway!}

Top 10 Comfort Foods Comfort food faves in order… #1 being the best. 1. Chocolate chip cookies (soft and chewy) 2. Peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies 3. Mom’s plum tart 4. Dad’s ...

12 apr 12

Happy Easter & Sweet of the Month 3

Submit a Sweet | Show All | Most Views | Top rated Cynthia Rathunde 0 votes Jennifer Cobb 0 votes Tessa Lindow Huff 0 votes Lindsey Pinkston 0 votes Cupcations 0 votes Melissa {thebake...

08 apr 12

Dogwood Flower Cookies, an Icing Honeycomb How-to and a Flower Cookie Surprise!

Have I ever got a treat for you today! The talented Hani of Haniela’s Food & Photography invited me to be a part of a cookie collaboration of sorts, called Let’s Smell the Flowers, wh...

02 apr 12

Frostalicious Birthday Party Frosting

Sweet, delicious, sugary frosting. You know, the kind you had at other children’s birthday parties – or maybe it was your party (lucky you). My mom usually made a bundt cake with powdered...

30 mar 12 1 person likes this

Pretty Easter Cookie Presentation & Packaging

{Random thoughts…} I’m loving this burst of spring we’re experiencing… Buds peeking through the ground, the sweet song of birds in the trees, {especially when I head out to th...

27 mar 12 1 person likes this

Easter Bunny & Lamb Decorated Cookies

Hold on to your hats! I’m about to ask you a mind-blowing question: Have you ever frozen royal icing before? Royal icing which you’ve made and put in a container, not already on a cookie....

22 mar 12 3 people like this

Easy Easter Egg Decorated Cookies

Today’s post is short and sweet – eggzactly like the Easter cookies I’m sharing with you today. (Sorry, couldn’t resist). The nice thing about these ones, is that they’r...

19 mar 12 2 people like this

Mini Easter Decorated Cookies {Easter Tree}

You know what this tree reminds me of? When I was a little girl, I remember a book at school which was about magical seeds (or was it the magical ground?), where whatever was planted in that garden, ...

16 mar 12 1 person likes this

{Giveaway!} Celebrating 40,000 likes on Facebook!

Hello, hello! I can hardly believe it! Sweetopia has been blessed to receive 40,000+ Facebook likes, and I’d like to say thank you with a wee giveaway! To say thanks I’m opening up a litt...

15 mar 12

How to Make St. Patrick’s Day Decorated Cookies

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (Well, soon). Have you been preparing for the holiday in any way? I’m officially in love with the colour green after decorating these. I don’t know why I ha...

12 mar 12 1 person likes this

50+ Secrets of a Cookie Decorator

Secrets of a Cookie Decorator – What the recipe books don’t tell you! I’m here to share them with you, in no particular order, because that would take way more time for me to do tha...

05 mar 12

The Lorax Decorated Cookies

Want to make your neighbours happy? How about your kids? Maybe your neighbour’s kids? Or your best friend’s cousin’s roommate? Make them a double-it-up, sweet treat – these Lo...

04 mar 12

Sweet of the Month 2

Cast Your Vote It’s time for another Sweet of the Month contest! And this time, it’s an Easter/Spring theme! Sweet of the Month is a friendly monthly contest here on Sweetopia, where your...

01 mar 12 1 person likes this

FAQs for Cookie Decorating & Kokeshi Decorated Cookies

Konnichiwa! Continuing with the Around the World cookie theme, we’re travelling to Japan with these Kokeshi cookies. But first, a little bit about a new section on Sweetopia, the FAQs. I often ...

27 feb 12 1 person likes this

How long do decorated cookies stay fresh? What is the shelf life of decorated cookies?

So how long do decorated cookies stay fresh? I get this question quite often so thought I’d share some info. with you in a short post. By no means am I an expert; it’s just what I’v...

20 feb 12 2 people like this

Sugarlicious {Giveaway!}

Do I ever have a treat for you! Cute, clever and inspiring, there’s a new decorating book available, and it’s written by one of the kindest, most creative ladies I know, Meaghan Mountford...

18 feb 12 1 person likes this

Happy 3rd Birthday!

Happy 3rd Birthday, Sweetopia! Is it silly? A birthday celebration for a blog? Probably, but I have to do it anyways. I can’t believe it’s been 3 years, this February, since I began blogg...

15 feb 12

{Video} How to Stencil on Cookies

    Did you know that over 50 million roses are given on Valentine’s Day worldwide every year? Why not make the roses you give to your loved ones this year a little bit different (and...

11 feb 12

{Video} How to Outline and Fill Cookies with Royal Icing

Outlining and Filling Cookies with Royal Icing {Video Tutorial} If you can’t see the video, click here. Decorating cookies is often called flooding because you can essentially create a dam, bor...

07 feb 12

Pretty in Pink KitchenAid Mixer {Giveaway!}

Pretty in pink. Or any other colour, really. Would you like one? How about two? Winner! Congrats to Linda Livingston for winning the grand prize, two KitchenAid mixers in the color of your choice! Co...

31 jan 12

Shortbread Cookie Recipe {& Alice in Wonderland Cookies}

I have yummy news! I’m ready to share another recipe with you… A recipe I like to use as cookie decorating base… Melt-in-your-mouth, delicious, buttery shortbread. The taste differe...

24 jan 12 2 people like this

Sweet of the Month & Giveaway!

Cast Your Vote Sweet of the What?! Yes you read it correctly, month. As you may or may not know, Sweetopia has been undergoing some changes with Sweet of the Week. To add to the chaos, it will from h...

15 jan 12

Royal Icing Recipe {Free Illustrated Recipe}

Good royal icing recipes are hard to come by, let alone magical ones. Treat your treats to this sublime icing recipe, passed down through generations of mythical fairies. For a FREE, sharable, printa...

08 jan 12 3 people like this

{Video} How to Dry Cookies Decorated with Royal Icing

  Video Tutorial on Drying Cookies Made with Royal Icing & Making Parisian-Themed Cookies If you can’t see the video click HERE. If you prefer watching videos on Vimeo, click HERE. Hi ...

05 jan 12 2 people like this

{Video} How to Make Simple Fondant or Gumpaste Cut-Outs & Wintry New Years Decorated Cookies

A blanket of newly fallen, fluffy, white snow – fresh, clean and magical. An air of hope and symbolic of new beginnings. Inspired by the snow and excited about 2012, I made these wintry new yea...

30 dec 11 1 person likes this

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