Posts by ihena81

So here's what I ended up doing: I made 1.5x the recipe in two 12 inch pans. I made two batches that gave me four layers. I used only three of them because the layers were so tall. Next time, I won't bother scaling the recipe if using 12...

Hi everyone! I'm making a 12 inch cake for a kids birthday party this weekend and I plan to make the Hershey's perfect chocolate cake which was approved by the birthday boy. I have mostly baked 8 and 9 inch cakes so I want to make sure...

I used colored Kwik fondant and must say I was very pleased. It's very easy to work with. I have never done fondant cakes until now. I took a George Brown course where we covered a dummy cake with ready made fondant provided by the...

I followed a red velvet cupcake recipe found online with lots of good reviews. I sifted the sugar because it was lumpy, then creamed butter and sugar as directed in the recipe. I used a stand mixer to prepare the batter, during and...

Bulk Barn has colored 4lbs fondant on sale. White is not on sale but ivory is. Can I get ivory fondant and color it with any color I like? I'm not baking anything at the moment but wanted to buy and keep for a future cake.

Just to update everyone and future readers;I took the fondant off, smoothened the cream cheese frosting and scraped some of it off (I realized I could go with a slightly thinner layer). Covered the cake with marzipan which held fine in...

Hi Everyone!I badly need some advice that will rescue my cake which is in progress. I´ve made a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. The cake is covered with rolled fondant (the cake bible). After covering the cake, I refrigerated it,...

Hi, I made the MBC for the first time yesterday and followed the recipe to the teeth. The sugar reached 250 degrees and was poured in a heat proof (pyrex) bowl. I think I took too long to scrape out the remaining sugar from the sauce pan...

Hi everyone, I'm relatively new to cake decorating and want to know how you get gold icing on the cake. I've read that you mix Wilton leaf green and golden yellow, but does it really make it gold like this:...