Posts by annakat444

Great! Thank you! How exactly do you do the filigree? Is it just piping freehand, or is there a picture underneath you pipe over?

If I'm envious of anybody, it's that they realized their passion in time to go to school for it. I didn't realize my love for cakes until after I got married and started a family. I know there's still time, but it seems next to...

Has anyone taken this class? I'm considering taking this class and using the filigree technique for my daughter's baptism cake - how difficult/time consuming is this technique? Is the filigree something that could possibly be done...

Thanks for bringing that to my attention - I have several vegan cupcake recipes I've used before and converted them to cakes and they came out fine, but I've never covered a vegan cake in fondant and definitely haven't done a tiered...

K8memphis - good point, I didn't think about it not holding up. Does this mean I need to make an entire cake for practice ahead of time, fondant and all? Also what is the best way to make sure I carve an even 1/2" all the way...

How crucial is it to use pound cake when sculpting a cake? I'm doing a tiered cake for my daughter's baptism and would like the shape of each tier to be wider at the top and get narrower towards the bottom. The cake has to be vegan,...

I'm bookmarking that page! It's SUPER helpful, thanks so much! Can't wait to try out the recipes!   Question - does it matter if I use the soy free Earth Balance? And does it have to specifically be the whipped Earth...

Hello all! After a long baking break break due to pregnancy I'm back and dying to decorate some cakes! I need to bake a vegan cake for my daughter's baptism and have a few questions about making vegan icing:   1. I've only...

Hi all! My daughter's 2nd birthday is this weekend and I want to do an ice cream themed cake for her. Here is a link to the picture of the cake I want to do: http://www.freshchickdesigns.com/2010/07/sweet-chick-monday/A few...

I can't see the picture clearly, but it looks like thick lines on the cake, not ruffles...? If that's the case, couldn't you ice the cakes with buttercream, and then pipe on the thick lines with royal icing? Would that look weird?