Posts by zespri

Hi folksWhen using the seeding method of tempering, is the chocolate that I add in when it hits the magic temperature supposed to be already tempered? Or is it just more of the un-tempered chocolate?If it's already tempered, does that...

Can anyone suggest which cake ingredients make the house smell amazing? We are about to sell our house and I thought I'd bake something right before the open homes to make it smell good.I was thinking cinnamon and brown sugar smells...

Hi ladiesI have a bakepop pan that my friend brought back from America, but I would really like another one. She doesn't know where she got it (as a friend of a friend sourced it for her). I had a link saved months ago for...

thank you ladies, I'll give it a try

I really struggle with lumpy batter for mudcake recipes. When adding the flour to the liquid, it just clumps into lumps. Is there a trick to keeping it smooth?

O.P., if you find out the answer maybe you could come back and tell us? I'd be interested to know too. Just being nosy, I don't even live in the same country as you, let alone the same state.It depends on the borough you live in here,...

you're a darling! I actually thought of you as I was doing it, as I know you've experimented a lot with it, I remember a post you made saying you didn't want those nasty chocolate melts, or something along those lines... lolBTW,...

I tried doing cakepops for the first time tonight. My chocolate was so thick it was impossible to get a smooth coating. So I added some vegetable shortening to thin it, which it did, but it still didn't seem like enough. I ended up...

Quote:Originally Posted by dlyoungI just ordered one but I'm not sure what to do with it, other than branches and swirls.I thought the same thing when I got mine, but have used it for loads. Hair, bumble bee stripes, bumble bee...

Quote:Originally Posted by howsweetAre you saying Buddy Valastro's cake in the video I posted above wasn't neat and even? No, not at all. That man has done probably thousands of cakes that way, he's very practiced and it looked...