You can also add some tylose to fondant/sugarpaste to make a quick gumpaste. Let me know if you want the quantities, I have it somewhere. As for how long it will last: wrapped tightly in double layer of cling wrap, it can be frozen or...
This makes me so sad. 50 years is an incredible achievement. I feel the same as fosterscreations, I would have made them an even better cake, for nothing. The couple are probably too nice to kick up a stink; if they had complained they...
Quote:Originally Posted by aobodessaI once had a florist who nearly refused to give me the flowers for a wedding cake until I divulged my "trade secret" for keeping HIS flowers looking fresh on MY cake. I told him that "I don't go...
I totally agree Lazy_Susan. Clients often have very pedestrian tastes, bores me to tears. Especially when they want the 'Frankencake': "I want the side design like on this cake, but the flowers arranged like on this other cake ..." . I...
I was looking on Scott Clark Woolley's site and he has a lot of needle tools.http://www.cakesbydesign.cc/ToolsSupplies.htmlEg, on the end of the friller tool, and also one needle tool by itself.Up till now I was using an el cheapo...
It is a trade name for CMC (carboxymethylcellulose) which is an alternative gum paste hardening ingredient to gum trag. It can be added to fondant to make a quick modelling paste which dries hard. You can get it from most cake decorating...
Quote:Originally Posted by kbochickOK, I've only been to one show, but I sat in after the judging as people were asking the judges to critique their cakes more throughly. The thing that I heard several times was to make sure that the...
