Posts by Stitches

If you're open to changing up your recipe I recently tried a recipe posted on the Cake Girls new website.............they have a really good version of an American style butter cream frosting listed under 'recipes'. I highly...

If the icing is crusty and wrinkling, it is drying out or the moisture from the frosting is migrating into the cake an the frosting then wrinkles up as it dry's.   So there's a number of thing you can try: 1. Change...

I've never seen that happen but the only logical thing I can think of that would cause this wrinkling is drying. You've got a moisture problem with either the cake, frosting or humidity.   After you frost your cake how to...

My website is a disaster! It shouldn't be set for public viewing, but I don't know how to change that. I have hired a person to re-make my site, whom has encountered problems in the wordpress software not accepting his code. So...

The whitest you can achieve with-out food coloring is to whip it like you'd never believe. I once worked at a French bakery for a day and they whipped theirs for almost an entire hour (maybe even longer). I couldn't believe it, I...

I do refrigerate them after frosting them. Once they are firm from the refrig. wrap plastic wrap around the cakes and you definitely good all week.

I freeze them all the time in the container I've baked them in. Just let them cool off and wrap tightly. If you needed to you could purchase foil pans and bake in them, pop them into zip lock baggies and your all set for months in the...

I did apologize after you all helped me see I did things poorly. It's very cool to have a place like this, where people can mentor others who need it. This whole thing has me wondering exactly what everyone else writes in emails...

Typically cake made from mixes last a long time! Far longer then scratch baked cakes do. If they were frosted/sealed they'd last kept at room temp. for 7 days and no one would know you didn't just take them out of the oven.

Quote: Originally Posted by lexi55033  I specialize in cupcake weddings and do about 2-3 of those size orders each weekend during the summer. Last weekend I had an order for 85 dozen cupcakes, in addition to several...