Well, it's almost Chinese New Year here and I was asked to do cupcakes for my daughter's class party. I made the FBCT last week, but ran out of icing for the "backing" of the transfer. I thought it would hold up b/c my image was pretty thick when I put it in the freezer. Well, I took out the transfer and it was fine. I used some fresh icing to "ice" the back of the transfer so it would be flat and lay flat on the CCC. I stuck the whole thing back into the freezer, waited, and then took it out after several minutes.

When I unpeeled the transfer, it cracked in half. I put the entire thing back into the freezer to let it stiffen up more. When I took it out again, I put the lower half of the image on the ccc, and then tried my best to stick the top half on w/o showing too much of the crack. After all was said and done, the image was lopsided on the CCC and the crack was very noticeable. I'm pretty disappointed as I spent quite a bit of effort on the FBCT. Thank goodness this was my contribution to the school party and not a paid order, otherwise I would've had to do it all over again. I did overpipe on top of the image so that the fault line is less visible (to the untrained eye). Live and learn.

OK, now I'm going to try to attach the photo of the ccc...
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The cake is adorable. From the photo, there is no sign of a problem. We always see the flaws as huge glaring ugly spots, when in reality, we may be the only one who can see it.

I think it looks great! If you didn't tell me what happened I never would have known, you can't tell at all!

I can't see anything wrong with it. What a great idea for a CCC!! I'm sure the kids loved it!

Oh I think it is a beautiful cake!! Very pretty! And you can't see any faults in it at all..Fabulous job!!

Beautiful!

So very detailed! She looks perfect to me--I think you did a fantastic job!

here is a tip, when I have had a break in a transfer, just put the pieces on the cake, and get a small paint brush. Dip it in hot water, and then get the excess water off. Brush over the crack. The icing will melt enough to flow over the crack. It is like painting with buttercream. This happened with my dorothy fish on my elmo cake, and my baby shower safari cake on the giraffe where the transfer is thin. It is also good if color bleeds, you can add a touch of icing and smooth it the same way (I had to do this on the white parts on my clown smash cake). Another way would be to do the transfer, then ice the back the entire size of the cake to make it seamless. Anyways, I always keep a brush on hand to touch up all the transfers I have done.

It makes it so your transfer does not have to be perfect out of the freezer. Just touch it up when on the cake.

Just my input...whether you wanted it or not. )

BTW, your cake looks great, I can't see any thing wrong with it. We are much more critical on ourselves.