Quick! Last Minute Opinions...

Decorating By Kitagrl Updated 16 Oct 2006 , 7:46pm by emi

Kitagrl Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 1:03pm

I'm making a rather large Sonic the Hedgehog cut-out cake... it takes up most of a half sheet board.

I have it crumb coated and am waiting for some new Crisco before I ice it...

Will it look more professional done in stars? Or iced smooth?

I thought the stars would look "cleaner" but that the iced smooth would be more "different" or "cool" but might not look as clean.

What would you do? I'm leaning towards stars now but....

I'll be doing it in about 30 minutes.... haha....

15 replies

mbelgard Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 1:06pm

post #2 of 16

With the time restriction I'd say ice smooth. If you had more time I'd say the stars would look really nice but I know I couldn't do all those stars in that amount of time.

marcimang Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 1:10pm

post #3 of 16

smooth always looks better in my opinion- good luck

veejaytx Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 1:10pm

post #4 of 16

Maybe you could do a combination, some stars and some smoot, get a little more texture that way.

Janice

Kitagrl Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 1:12pm

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I'm sorry, I didn't mean I only had 30 min to do it...haha...I just meant I'll be starting it in about 30 min. She won't be picking it up until 5pm.

KHalstead Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 1:18pm

post #6 of 16

I always equate the stars with a beginner..........I know that's definitely NOT the case ( I've had people request cakes covered in stars).......but I usually lean more towards the smoothly iced cakes personally.

Kitagrl Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 5:23pm

post #7 of 16

Thanks!

The "smooths" have it... its really hard to get all the different colors even and smooth, the photo hides alot of my imperfections and also the chocolate crumbs in the white parts... *sigh*....but hopefully customer will like it. Its a pretty big cake, half sheet size.

Thanks again!

heather2780 Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 5:27pm

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wow you did a really great job on this cake it must have been really hard to smooth out all those differnet sections of color what did you use?

wgoat5 Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 5:29pm

post #9 of 16

Great job. I am not a big fan of stars I love the smooth look

ladyvader01 Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 5:32pm

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It looks great!!!

Kitagrl Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 5:34pm

post #11 of 16

Quote:

Originally Posted by heather2780

wow you did a really great job on this cake it must have been really hard to smooth out all those differnet sections of color what did you use?

Thanks! Well..the photo does cover ALOT of imperfections! I used a small spatula and also my finger...and retraced alot of the areas a few times.

It looks alot better in the photo than it does in person. haha.

all4cake Posted 16 Oct 2006 , 5:35pm

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Great job!