Photo Tutorials

This tutorial will teach you how to cover a cake with fondant. Fondant-covered cakes have a smooth, professional look that’s easy to achieve at home with a little practice and patience.

Fondant Pearls add a beautiful decorative touch to any cake or pastry. To make fondant pearls, fondant is rolled into balls and dusted with luster dust to make realistic, glimmering edible pearls.

In this recipe for sugar corkscrews, sugar is cooked until deeply caramelized and then spiraled to form these decorative corkscrew curls. Sugar Corkscrews add beauty and sophistication to any dessert.

This step-by-step photo tutorial will show you how to use transfer sheets to wrap a cake in chocolate and create chocolate cut-outs to decorate the top of your cake.

This step-by-step photo tutorial will teach the basics of working with chocolate transfer sheets, and will show you how to use chocolate transfer sheets to decorate cakes, cupcakes, and dipped cookies or candy.

This photo tutorial will show you how to make marshmallows using step-by-step illustrated instructions. The marshmallow recipe used here produces light, fluffy marshmallows lightly scented with vanilla, but you can use any other flavors you desire.

This photo tutorial will teach you how to make caramels using step-by-step instructions.

This photo guide will show you how to make truffles with step-by-step picture illustrations. This dark chocolate truffle recipe is easy to make but tastes sinfully delicious.

This photo tutorial will show you how to make nougat using step-by-step illustrated instructions. The nougat recipe used here produces a chewy, delicately scented sweet confection studded with three kinds of crunchy nuts.

This photo tutorial will give you step-by-step illustrations showing how to make old-fashioned fudge. This chocolate fudge recipe produces a rich, sweet fudge studded with nuts.

This photo guide will show you how to make a classic toffee recipe using step-by-step photo illustrations.

This photo guide will show you how to make rock candy using step-by-step picture instructions. This rock candy recipe is simple and fun to make with children.

How to Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups photo tutorial. Step by step pictures and instructions showing how to make peanut butter cups.

Candied citrus peel is delicious by itself or as an ingredient in other candies. This photo guide with step-by-step instructions will show you how to make perfect candied citrus peel.

Step-by-step illustrations for creating picture-perfect chocolate-covered cherries.

This step-by-step photo guide explains how to make homemade fondant, using a basic fondant recipe. The resulting fondant can be used for cream centers, dipped fondant candies, rolled fondant, or poured fondant.

This photo guide shows how to make spun sugar. Spun Sugar creates a beautiful web of glossy sugar strands that can be used to decorate pastries.

A step-by-step illustrated guide to pulling taffy candy, beginning from a cooked sugar syrup and ending with beautiful pieces of taffy candy.

This candy sushi recipe makes adorable sushi look-alikes from Rice Krispies, gummy worms, and other premade candies. This photo guide with step-by-step instructions will show you how to make perfect candy sushi.

This photo tutorial shows you how to make traditional Meringue Mushrooms, the classic accompaniment to the traditional buche de noel, or Christmas yule log cake.

This is a royal icing recipe and photo tutorial showing step-by-step instructions for making royal icing.

This photo tutorial will show you how to make frosting roses out of buttercream or royal icing.

A step-by-step photo tutorial showing how to make Easter Egg Cake Pops. Moist bites of cake and frosting are formed into egg shapes, made into lollipops, and decorated to look like festive Easter eggs.

This photo tutorial demonstrates how to make simple frosting flowers using buttercream or royal icing.

This photo tutorial shows how to make panoramic sugar eggs for Easter.

Learn how to make molded chocolate candy with this photo tutorial. These step-by-step instructions will show you how to make molded chocolate truffles just like the professionals!

Paper Cone photo tutorial. Learn how to make a paper cone, also called a paper cornet, to use for piping frosting and chocolate in cake decorating and candy making.

Lovebug Truffles are adorable ladybug-shaped truffles decorated with hearts. Learn how to make lovebug truffles with this step-by-step photo tutorial.

Fondant Petals are beautiful lifelike edible rose petals made out of fondant. Learn how to make fondant rose petals with this step by step photo tutorial.

Red Velvet Cake Truffles are simply balls of delicious red velvet cake mixed with real cream cheese frosting. Learn how to make red velvet cake balls with this step by step photo tutorial.

Learn how to make a chocolate monogram or chocolate filigree decoration with this step by step photo tutorial.

Chocolate boxes are a fun, delicious way to package a gift. Learn how to make chocolate boxes with this photo tutorial, and give homemade candies, jewelry or other small gifts in an edible chocolate box.

Chocolate Bowls photo tutorial. Step-by-step instructions on how to make edible chocolate bowls to hold ice cream, mousse, candies, and more.

A step by step photo tutorial showing how to make candied flowers, also known as crystallized flowers.

A step-by-step photo tutorial showing how to make Marshmallow Chicks, a delicious homemade version of the popular Easter candy Marshmallow Peeps.

Photo tutorial with step-by-step pictures showing how to make Easter Bunny Truffles. These cute rabbit-shaped truffles make a great Easter gift or addition to an Easter basket.

Photo tutorial showing how to make Easter Basket Candies. Easter Basket Candies are delicious, edible chocolate-peanut butter Easter baskets, filled with coconut "grass" and jelly bean "eggs."

Learn how to make edible chocolate cups with this step-by-step chocolate cups photo tutorial.

Step-by-step photo tutorial showing how to apply edible gold leaf to chocolates and truffles.