Down Under Meets Down South

Down Under Meets Down South

Greg Cleary comes to ISAC G’day mates: mark your cake decorating calendars! In August, Greg Cleary will be coming all the way from Brisbane, Australia to teach in Studio B! Yay! For over 30 years Greg’s passion has been baking and cake decorating. He has a flair for creativity and a knack for design and coloring cakes; using his skills Greg…

Winners of the Birthday Blog!

Winners of the Birthday Blog!

As promised here are the winners of the Birthday Blog prizes! Thank you to everyone who commented on last week’s blog! I do hope that all the winners listed below enjoy their prizes, whatever they may be! Craftsy Class Winners Ultimate Sugar Rose Class: Iisha Barnes “Would love to win your Ultimate Sugar Rose Class.”…

Happy Birthday Blog!

Happy Birthday Blog!

Today is an exciting day! Why, you ask? Today we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Nicholas Lodge Blog! Hooray!!! Writing this blog each week for all of you has been a lot of fun, and I have learned so much more about cake decorating and baking in the process! I have enjoyed researching…

Flavors of the World: Florals

Flavors of the World: Florals

Fantastic Floral Favorites! Happy Thursday dear readers!! Today my humble offering is another Flavors of the World segment by Chef Nicholas! Chef Nicholas has a very refined, sophisticated palette, and he just loves floral flavors. I’ll also be sharing two delicious recipes developed by the man himself- Vanilla Lavender Shortbread Cookies and Rose and Pink Champagne…

Fancy French Pastry School Tools

Fancy French Pastry School Tools

A while back I shared a post on Chef Nicholas teaching at the French Pastry School (FPS) in Chicago. If you are a fan of Chef Nicholas’ Facebook page, you’ll know that his students finished up their Wedding Cake projects on Tuesday, and they are all spectacular! These students get wonderful instruction from Chef Nicholas (as anyone…

Flavors of the World: Citrus

Flavors of the World: Citrus

Sensational Citrus Welcome to our third installment of Flavors of the World! I am very excited to share Chef Nicholas’ article today because it’s all about citrus flavor, and this girl LOVES citrus flavors! Spoiler Alert! I share a favorite ISAC recipe in this blog! Without further ado, I will let Chef Nicholas tell you…