Posts by littlemrslarge

Mine are organized in small/medium Rubbermaid-type boxes and stashed on top of our kitchen cabinets, along with most of my pans.  I work out of a 6'x8' kitchen (i.e. TINY) so there is no storage space for my cake things.  I...

P.S. Sorry DeliciousDesserts, I think we posted at the same time (with the same info, haha!)

Well, a few thoughts:   * Why is she requesting two dummy tiers and then possible extra "real" sheet cakes?  It'd be a lot easier to do the additional flavors in those extra tiers and not mess her buying with sheet cakes...

Well... I ended up baking the 14" layers with one flower nail in the center of each one (poked it through my parchment liner in the bottom so it didn't move) and a single wet towel strip pinned around the outside, like a bake-even...

I've had this happen too - mine was because I rolled my fondant too thick, and I didn't have a stiff dam in the center to prevent the filling from bulging under the weight.  I would have been better off to (a) let the filled cake...

What about a jello poke-cake?  The follicles remind me of the "pokes" in a poke cake.  You'd still want to pipe the side details on, though, probably after slicing.  I'm an anatomy nerd (I won't gross you guys out by...

Love the Viva paper towel method - I use it on all my buttercream cakes!  Bench scrapers are awesome but I always find myself doing a final smoothing with the Viva towel regardless.

I did a very simple piped sock monkey cake last year - keep in mind, I'm a self-taught amateur, nowhere near the caliber of some folks here! :-)  Anyway, I freehanded the shape, and used a small star tip to (hopefully) be...

I'm glad you asked!  I'm in Knoxville and have been researching the same thing... lots of conflicting information out there.  Other people have told me they've rented space in a commercial kitchen to be able to bake items for...

Thanks all for the advice/confirmation!  I'll pick up a few more flower nails this week (I only have one metal and one OLD plastic one... haha.  I don't do flower-nail flowers often.)  I'll report back to let you know...