Posts by cakeladydi

I've made the chocolate chip cookie cakes several times. When you put the dough on the pizza pan leave a hole in the middle (the dough is in the shape of a ring) so that when it spreads you won't have a big hump in the center.If you...

I'm not familiar with how either one of these systems work. Would someone mind sharing some of the details? TIADiane

I just had my first request for a birthday cake that was a cream cheese pound cake with cream cheese icing. I have always used DH Butter Recipe and DH Devils Food. Anyway I used a cream cheese pound cake recipe from CC and 1 batch made...

Go to "Galleries" and scroll down to "Sketches, Patterns and Templates". Just look through there I think I found them on the 6th page.Good Luck.Diane

Or do I have to use a tube pan? I make pound cakes all the time but I have always used my tube pan. Now I have a customer that wants Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Cream Cheese Icing for a birthday cake. So I am wondering if I can bake...

What about using the plastic seperator plates with the little "feet" that fit into the plastic hidden pillars from Wilton? I've never had a problem with them. I did have a problem with wooden dowels and almost lost a cake to sliding.Diane

I haven't. I'm pretty much chicken when it comes to moving a stacked cake. I have traveled with the two bottom tiers of wedding cakes stacked but I think I would worry since the ganache is kinda slick. I guess you could dowel through...

I have done about 3 or 4 of these cakes as Grooms Cakes (I don't have pics on here because my computer is a dinosaur. Hopefully within the next week or so we will be gettin a new one.) I go ahead and ice the cakes then put a thin...

Thanks RuralNV I will look into that. I had two pound cakes to make for a fundraiser today so I went ahead with the Crisco.bakeyclacker: Crisco is shortening but hi-ratio shortening (I use for buttercream) is different. Creamier and...

For Saturday weddings I wait as late Friday night as I can (usually the last thing I do before I go to bed, if I get to) I wash the strawberries and gently dry with a paper towel then I lay them out on the counter on paper towels for the...