Cake Decorating Forum

Any suggestions on how to make ants? Cake will have an ant hill and ants. It is for a 5 Yr. Old., but I don't want them to be really cartoony.

I add a tiny bit of violet to my icing, which is 1/3 butter and 2/3 shortening. I have to fiddle around with it a bit, though, to get it white. I never add enough in the beginning. I usually add it ...

OK, I'm on vacation (yea!) and I'm playing cake this week. I haven't done many stacked cakes so I'm working on a 3 tier square stacked design. The stacked cakes need to be the same size as their boa ...

Well, I have really enjoyed watching the shows! It's great to have another cake show to watch. But I am someone who spends more time looking at cakes than making them. I'm lucky if I do one per mon ...

How about a fondant baby under a fondant blanket and you can pipe, "it's a girl" on the blanket, or fondant bottle and you can pipe "it's a girl" on the bottle, or a round plaque for the "it's a girl" ...

I make my own template and impress it on the BC to make a guide. Measure the circumference of your cake and determine how many swags you want and divide the measurement by that number. The result is ...

I quoted $150 for a 12” Italian Cream and 6” vanilla. The 12” will be almost completely covered with edible images (9 photos). 4 icing sheets cost me $13. Also a fondant plaque with tappit le ...

I tried to attach the letters with a little water on the back, but it didn't seem to stick very well. Can I use candy coating?

Let's see, carved cakes: nurse's cap with dog head and paws poking out licking spilled martini, martini glass on it's side. Or shopping bag with dog in it, or next to it with spilled martini and paw ...

Looking for help with ideas for a retirement cake for the director of the Houston District of the Texas Department of Transportation. I work for a major highway contractor and our biggest contracts a ...

I need to make maroon fondant for a grad cake. What colors do I need to mix? I tried red with a little brown and it didn't work very well. Thanks for any advice.

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I've bought it in a small 2 lb tub, but the last time I ...

There’s lots of ways you could do this! And YOU CAN do it! You could do the name as either a Frozen Buttercream Transfer, with run in sugar, or cut it out of fondant. To cut it out of fondant, cu ...

Thanks for the suggestions, I was thinking about doing something with the maroon and white and the A & M logo. I'm really racking my brain to think of something really spectacular like a model of a b ...

I also have a 6 qt. and probably make it the same way you did. I get air in mine, too. Sometimes I put it (about half of it) in another bowl, in large spoonfuls/spatulafuls and smoosh the air out. ...