Posts by Walkinmomma

I use a 50/50 blend for my molds and have great success. Rosa has a great tutorial on her site on how to use these molds. http://www.rosasdesign.com/use.htm Her molds are very beautiful and intricate.

Question to Cake Central-is the issue of the ratings for recipes being revisited?  It was wonderful to see the user's ratings as it helped in choosing recipes.

Thank you so much for the response- apparently  no one knew what you just  told us.  I for one will be patient now that I am aware our comments are being taken into consideration.

I agree-I give a list of cake sites to my students and every one of them have come back and told me how hard it is to navigate the new site.  I have posted several comments here about this but am really surprised that we do not...

here is a picture you can use as a guide.  I made one for a cake and it is really pretty.  Use a 24 gauge wire for each petal as 26 is not strong enough      

Sorry guys!  What an awful typo!!!!  You can tell I was on my first cup of coffee and  it was REALLY early!:)

You definitely need to use pure cumpaste and make sure the wire is not too wet.  I teach my students to dip the wire and then to wipe it on the top of their hand to remove excess moisture-if the wire is too wet it breaks through...

Don't make the mistake of buying the cloth wrapped wire you find at the local craft stores. It is not designed for use with sugarpaste!  I bought some and also ordered some of the Paneca cloth wrapped wire(great for floral...

My daughters got me the extenders for the tiers that go with the Cake Stackers system.  These allow you to have tiers as high as 8".  I have used the dowels in cakes  and they work fine for a cake that is stationary or...

You can contact Cake Stackers directly and they will answer any questions you have about a barrel cake and their system