Posts by crnewbold

Good point, thank you.  I have not tried gluing anything heavy to the side yet.  I was just gluing small flowers and pearls to the side, and a few flowers to the top.  I did have to support a couple of the side...

I am new to cake decorating and don't have a lot of experience with attaching dried decorations to fresh fondant.  I've used RI and melted chocolate, but you can sometimes see the glue glob.  Anyway, for my most recent cake I...

Thanks for your replies.  And thanks for the link to the sugarsweetcakesandtreats blog, looks like a lot of good tutorials there.  I ended up coating the hat with a very thin coat of shortening (wiping most of it off). ...

Wow, Thanks for the link to that site.  I have not seen it before.  Can't wait to spend time perusing it.

I want to make a fondant cowboy hat topper by covering a small plastic party hat (about 8-inch diameter at the brim) and let it dry.  I'm trying to figure out what to use to make the fondant stick to the mold when I cover...

I use a wine bottle stopper that has a smooth metal ball on the end.  It doesn't have a long handle, but it fits my hand and it doesn't tear like my plastic ball tool.  Here's an example: ...

Wow!  I had never heard of this frisket material before now.  I see it's available in 6" rolls.  I can't wait to try it.  (That, and your delicious mudcake recipe, which I also just discovered.)  

Thanks for your reply. I will consider both of those options.

I tried to cover a foam, foil-covered cake base with scrapbook paper and shrink wrap. When I heated the shrink wrap it crept up above the bottom of the board. I tried a second time, taping the shrink wrap to the bottom of the board,...

Thanks for the moral support! I'm happy to report that my cake came out in one piece. After cooling on a rack for 10 minutes, I ran a knife around the outside about three times, shook the pan in short back-and-forth twisting motion...