Posts by heartsnsync

The way that works best for me when using the Wilton petal pans is to use a fairly large star tip and pipe the icing on the sides that way. Smooth and remove doing a nice crisp crumb coat. Let is crust (or refrigerate for a bit) and...

Could the "rose swirl" technique be sufficient for your purposes? Google it and you will find a lot of videos on how to do it. HTH

The best cake to use for a rainbow cake is white cake made with egg whites and clear vanilla. Any yellow in the batter affects the color outcome. It is very important to level each layer, as others have posted. Here is a picture of...

A good website and Facebook are very necessary to cake businesses. Also, like you, when I started my business last year I tried going around to local businesses with samples and brochures and made sure to tell them I delivered. So, in...

I have the same Wilton mat and hardly ever use it for the same reason you are discovering. What I use now is a large Silpat. It does not slide at all.

I had a wedding cake tasting set up today but they never showed up and were not answering their phone. I charge for my tastings but have always collected at the tasting. I did not have any batter frozen for the flavors they wanted to...

You don't mention how long you leave the cakes unwrapped once you have defrosted them but before you put on the butter cream. If you do not leave them unwrapped long enough for condensation to dry off, the butter cream can buckle and...

I made some hay bales back some months ago by rolling out some straw colored fondant really thin, letting it air dry over night and then cutting it in very thin strips that looked like straw. I then applied them to RKT covered in butter...

I use tylose all the time for modeling. Just keep in mind that it will stiffen the fondant and make it less pliable and any extra left over will become too hard to use even if wrapped well. If I am going to need to model something and...

You can make a cheese cake flavored cake by using some cream cheese (in place of some of the milk or sour cream) and use cheesecake pudding mix and Lorann's cheesecake oil in the batter. I make a "cheesecake lovers" cake and since I am...