Posts by Mae_mom

Thank you both for your help!!! Very much appreciated!! I'm not going to wire the flowers; I've not ever done that before... unless I should start? :p I've done flowers on cakes before by attaching with buttercream or gumpaste glue,...

I'm going to be making a friend a wedding cake next month. As of right now the design is going to be a pale sky blue with white daisies cascading down from the top. The cake is going to be making an eight hour minimum car ride, however...

I have a request for a white chocolate raspberry cake. My initial thought was to do raspberry filling however they want cream cheese filling in "white chocolate raspberry cake". Any ideas?? I've heard that you could use juice instead of...

Well, I did some shopping and as torn as I am between the KA and the Cuisinart, My husband got me a bigger KA via the Elder Beerman website (the professional 600... 575 watts); with a coupon and free shipping he got it for $250. Not too...

I'm so glad to have found this thread; I'm doing a cake tonight and ran out of dowels!! I'm trying straws on this one!! But I wanted to add that when I do use dowels, I use some that are pretty thick. I use a new pair of pet nail...

I've been asked to do this for a friend. I can pretty much figure it all out aside from the outside edge; the fluted/rippled part. It looks like it was put on at the end, rather than poured at the same time as the top. But what on...

Thank you thank you thank you for all of your suggestions!! Most helpful!! I actually only live about 30 minutes from the Kitchen Aid store in Greenville and have been there a few times! I'd actually forgotten they have the discounted...

I currently have a little KA Classic but I'm looking to get a second mixer, a more powerful one. Fondant work is killing my hands (the dying of the fondant mostly) and I recently discovered that I can do this with a stand mixer, but...

I know a lot of people don't like the cricut cake but I do love mine! When I first got it, I tried fondant right away; and failed. I then tried fondant/gumpaste mix and failed. Then I tried just gumpaste and it works great. I always...

I've made cake pops two ways; one with the crumbling of the baked cake along with the icing and mashing into a ball, and the other way by using a small cake pop baker. I have the same problem with both methods. The stick ALWAYS pops...