Does anyone know how to do the striped cakes at www.cakeworks.com?I have the post from a while back but seem to be a stuck on part of the instructions. Thanks

I think fearlessbaker is referring to this sort of design

Yep, That's the one. Have you make it Redred? I have the directions from a previous post. When it comes to the part about taking on and off the smaller pieces of acetate that is where the confusion is. I have it on my mind to make this but. Maybe it's better to just use chocolate transfer sheets. Thanks Nati for your interest.

Aren't those cake just gorgeous?!? I LOVE the striped cakes and would love to make one....once I get up the courage!

Here are some more by Cakework:

http://www.cakework.com/spotlight.html

fearlessbaker, can you point me in the directions of the instructions you are referring to?

Tripletmom,Here is the part that is confusing to me: I understand that on the main sheet of acetate you put some strips in various sizes and then you spread all of that with chocolate. The chocolate sets and then the strips are removed;right? But if you remove the strips from the main piece of acetate that has been spread with chocolate that means they will have choc. on them too;right? It's from that point that I just don't understand. I know how to wrap a cake with choc. but it doesn't seem to say that here. It's the part with the smaller strips that's confusing. Thanks

The directions you received were posted on another forum/link/post?

Curious and I would enjoy reading the other post. Do you still have the link or directions to post?

Thanks.

Um, sorry I can't help you there....what I was meant was would you also give me the directions for making the stripes.....if they were in another post here or something.....

Well, I am loosing it. It was posted on CC April 10. i can't seem to find it again. I printed out all the directions and at the bottom of my pages there are a lot of of file numbers etc. have gone through all of that . So now what? Any ideas on how to get this? I have searched April 10 forums. Once before It was found and now gone!!!

I found the thread but have no idea how to like you guys to it. However.... I did a "keywords" search under forums. I typed in "cakework" and "stripes" and only 2 links came up. The April one you are looking for has the directions. The original author is "CakePhun" in case you have better luck searching under authors. I was reading through and this sounds interesting.
Fearless...you'll have to let us know if it works out for you!

I typed in Cakework and Stripes and come up with a whole list of posts...

#1 post?

This thread!

I know there must be a better way of doing this...

Just to confirm, we are talking about cakes such as
http://www.cakework.com/spotlight.html
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamf/41144169/

IS THIS WHAT EVERYONE IS WANTING---I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO DO THIS, TOO....THIS SEEMS LIKE A FOUNT OF INFORMATION-GOOD LUCK!




http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-21858-cakework.html+stripes

I just tried the search again. Make sure you put the words cakework and stripes each in quotations...I only came up with 3 links now (the previous 2 and now this one). This is what it should like when you type it into the search:

"cakework" and "stripes"

You can also search for "CakePhun" under authors. There are about 20 links and just scroll down to the one that says "Does anyone know how they do this..."

These worked for me.
Good luck.

If you know how I can link the previous thread to this one, let me know and I'll do it so that it is easier for everyone.

yes, Yes, YES!

Daltonam, YES. 10q very much!

Now that we all have it, is there any way to save it other than copy it into our files? Is there some "filing cabinet" within Cakecentral.com to keep this?

Thank you for linking it. I didn't know how to do it!!

Fearless---I think I figured it out. The directions are confusing. Let me know if this makes sense (I truly don't know if this is what the directions are suppose to mean, but after reading them over and over, and looking at the picture she has with the directions, this is what I think...)

You have your long, big main strip.
The thinner strips act sort of like a stencil. You do not put chocolate over these. You put chocolate between these (although you can overlap the chocolate a little bit to fully cover your exposed stripe. When you lift the thinner strips up, you are left with stripes without chocolate. These are the spaces that you put your colored chocolate (step 6 of her instructions).
If you look at her finished cake, she has white stripes (her original white chocolate that she says looks brownish), and then black and pink stripes (these are what she piped into the empty stripes that were left when she pulled the thinner strips off during step 4.

I know this sounds soooo confusing. If you can't follow what I wrote (and I wouldn't blame you...it's so darn confusing!!!), please PM me. I do think this is what the directions are trying to explain. What really helped me was looking at her finished cake and looking at the stripe pattern.

Best wishes!!
-Krista

IF NOTHING ELSE YOU COULD PM TAMIAZ

I haven't done these, just admired and wondered like a lot of others. But on another site (egullet) I read a post from someone who claims to have it on authority that cakework use edible ink printers to make these.

OK maybe I am over simplifying this but the ones on cakework.com look like painted fondant to me as the back side that you can see on the ones where the fondant is taller than the cake is white the color doesn't go all the way through....
So I would make my long piece to go around the cake and then I would paint the stripes on the fondant or if I had an air brush I would air brush them on. I would use wax paper strips to mark off where I need to paint and use foam brushes as you can get them in varying widths and wouldn't get brush marks.
I am anxious to try it out.

Thanks Everyone for all of your suggestions. And Kae, thank you so much for your instructions. I may try this sometime. However, I am thinking now more on the lines of the chocolate transfer sheets since they are so easy to do. Cakework could very well use a machine. A few months back there was a post discussing the cookie monograms that involved a machine. The cookies were like those shown at www.beau-coup.com. Thanks so much again, to all of you.