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| Topic: Questions about the article for the 3-D Owl Cake... |
nightowl
Replies: 7
Views: 246
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 Forum: How Do I?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:24 am Subject: Questions about the article for the 3-D Owl Cake... |
Hi,
The back and side books for the owl cake did not have dowels, only the owl itself. The key is that I used a very dense cake (Paula Dean's sour cream pound cake found on the Food Network site), ... |
| Topic: Belle cake ideas? |
nightowl
Replies: 17
Views: 1155
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Forum: Cake Ideas
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:55 pm Subject: Belle cake ideas? |
| A teapot set shaped like the teapot and cup characters would be cute! |
| Topic: Best Cake and Decorating Books..... |
nightowl
Replies: 15
Views: 879
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Forum: General
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:53 pm Subject: Best Cake and Decorating Books..... |
| The Essential Cake Decorating Guide by Jane Price is good too!! |
| Topic: layering cakes |
nightowl
Replies: 2
Views: 279
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Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:11 am Subject: layering cakes |
| when you stack cakes, you should have a cake board or piece of foam board cut to sit under the top cake. Cut dowel rods the height of your bottom layer and place them through the bottom cake to suppo ... |
| Topic: Basketweave help |
nightowl
Replies: 7
Views: 652
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Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:10 pm Subject: Basketweave help |
| When you are doing the basketweave, start at the bottom of the cake with each row, much easier that way. Be sure to mark off the cake into sections wtih small bits of icing to make sure the columns ... |
| Topic: what do you think of this idea?? |
nightowl
Replies: 10
Views: 490
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Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:08 pm Subject: what do you think of this idea?? |
| I love cakes with different shapes. For my final Wilton wedding cake, I did a round cake, oval middle, with a dome on top from the sports ball. It was lots of fun! |
| Topic: Where do you get your ideas from? |
nightowl
Replies: 12
Views: 384
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Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:07 pm Subject: Where do you get your ideas from? |
| I look at books for border techniques, etc. or just play around with a practice board or MMF until something interesting comes out. Cake Central is a great resource (especially the galleries) for th ... |
| Topic: what size/brand decorating bag do you use? |
nightowl
Replies: 4
Views: 264
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Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:04 pm Subject: what size/brand decorating bag do you use? |
| The bags I use the most are a 12" Wilton featherweight and the 18" featheweight with the icing tip for icing the cake. If I'm doing something with a small tip (i.e. lacework with a tip 1 or 2) then t ... |
| Topic: Where is |
nightowl
Replies: 8
Views: 508
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Forum: General
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:59 pm Subject: Where is |
| Garden ridge has lots of interesting garden stands that could be used as cake stands, depending on the time of year you check! |
| Topic: Making pearls from fondant |
nightowl
Replies: 6
Views: 454
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Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:55 pm Subject: Making pearls from fondant |
If you're using the bead maker, it comes with two possible methods, one is to spray it with cooking spray, then coat with  Luster Dust after the beads come out. The second is to actually put luster du ... |
| Topic: ISO recipes for Toba Garrett's chocolate & yellow cakes |
nightowl
Replies: 5
Views: 410
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Forum: Recipe Requests
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:50 pm Subject: ISO recipes for Toba Garrett's chocolate & yellow cakes |
Hi!
The recipes can be found here:
http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/how_to/cakedecorating/tips
I hope these are the ones you're looking for! |
| Topic: mmf mishaps...help |
nightowl
Replies: 1
Views: 193
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Forum: General
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:46 pm Subject: mmf mishaps...help |
| It's possible that the MMF is still too warm when you're working with it if it is melting. It works best if it has set at room temperature for a little while. If breaking is a problem, then either i ... |
| Topic: Hobby Lobby coupon! |
nightowl
Replies: 6
Views: 317
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Forum: General
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:41 pm Subject: Hobby Lobby coupon! |
| You can also sign up for their mailing list on the Hobby Lobby website and receive email flyers. The one for this week has a 40% coupon to print off as well! |
| Topic: using dowel rods |
nightowl
Replies: 5
Views: 281
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Forum: How Do I?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:55 pm Subject: using dowel rods |
| To get the dowel to go through the cake, I take a pencil sharpener and sharpen a wooden dowel to a point. Suprisingly it goes through the layers with no trouble as long as you're using cardboard/foam ... |
| Topic: Buttercream to stick to cut part of cake? |
nightowl
Replies: 3
Views: 268
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Forum: How Do I?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:45 am Subject: Buttercream to stick to cut part of cake? |
| It might help to glaze the cake (some people use a mixture with apricot jam or simple syrup made from heating water and sugar)! |
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