Posts by HamSquad

I'm so sorry about your cake! I just shipped a cake for the first time to California, this past Friday to my niece. I was supposed to send a gumpaste high heel and a purse cake. It rained the entire week here and the shoe crumbled into...

Americolor Red works great for my BC frosting, I just can't get a true red color with my fondant it always look like a deep salmon color.

You are over thinking this project. Stop for a day, no thoughts about this cake! Your stenciling came out great, just looked at your pictures. For ideals, go to the library and look at old Wilton cake decorating books. That is where I...

If all else fails, maybe royal icing. I made a MMF baby crib and it was during the summer, the humidity was horrible. I had use gumtex in the fondant, but was still too soft. In desperation I glazed royal icing over the panels front and...

Hello! To hold your stencil on your cake, you may want to punch a small hole at the top of your stencil, just 2, one on each end. I use sterile corsage pins to hold the stencil on. I usually work at night like an Kebler Elf and there...

Quote:Originally Posted by mplaidgirl2I use milkshack straws that I found at bed bath and beyond... Very similar to Bubble Tea straws. If its 3 tiers I use the really thick wilton plastic dowels. I love those things but they are a pain...

Quote:Originally Posted by Karen421Under cake decorating in the forums:http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-603925.htmlThanks Karen421 for the older posts. I really enjoyed reading them. Thanks also to Leah. I first used SPS...

With the SPS system, how do you stack the 4, the 5 and the six tiered cakes? When I used SPS, it was with a 3 tiered cake I stacked on site. I was too scared to stack and deliver. I'm so used to having the dowel rod down the middle of...

Thanks for all the info on this post. I have tried SPS, Coast, wooden dowels mainly, cake jacks and recently the Wilton plastic dowels. I really dislike using the wooden dowels now. Someone previously mentioned in this post that the...

So far this designer stencil for me was intricate:http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1829787I have only tried fbct on top of a cake, they work on round as well square, or sheet cakes. Are you planning to use on the side of your cake?