lol i just had a dumb mommy moment! my 3 yr old woke up and asked me for a cup, so i got the stuff out to make him chocolate milk.. i pour some chocolate in the cup, reach in the fridge pull out the tea and pour it into the cup with the chocolate. *pause* wait! what? tea? sorry had to laugh at myself..

Ugg, I'm up working on a 3D hot air balloon, I got the basket, structure, and cake up on the balloon part but having trouble getting the bottom of the balloon part to come down small enough to look right...

time to just start filling the basket with people or animals or something to distract from what I don't like about the balloon

Petit fours = major PITA.

OK, here goes, and you're going to have to visualize.

Make a sheet cake. fill or not, your choice. Frost the top with a thinnish layer of bc. Freeze.

Make poured fondant. The Wilton recipe actually works. Don't let the temp go higher than 92F. Us a thermometer.

Get a cooling rack that's a grid, or criss cross two. Set them on 4 tall drinking glasses. Make sure the height of the glasses = the height of the skewer you're going to use two steps forward.

Pull sheet cake out of freezer. Cut into squares. The size is 2-3 bites.

Put a skewer into the cake piece. Dip it in the poured fondant. put the skewer with the now frosted cake thru the cooling rack so that the skewer is hanging below the grid. Pull out the skewer. Your fingers never touch the petit four and since you're dipping it, it gets covered completely. The freezing produces fewer crumbs in the poured fondant, and causes the fondant to set up quickly on the petit four.

Argh . . .9 more fondant lace motifs.

You make it sound so easy! Thanks!

leahs - that sounds like a really smart method for peteit fours. Maybe I'll get to try them someday...

I'm a total beginner, but I decided to enter in the State Fair, bit off way more than I can chew, but its motivation, right?
Anywho, I'm making a batch of MMF and dying it, then trying to pipe butterflies out of RI, as an experiment. No cakes for me tonight

Teena - That witch is amazing! How did you get the curls in her hair so defined?

i took a small bit of fondant and rolled it into a small coil in my hand, then i folded it in half to make a V shape (thus creating 2 pieces of hair because i connect the bottom of the V to the head) then i just twirled the ends with my fingers. My hair is very curly when not contained, so i get lots of practice trying to twist my own curls to get them to fall nicely lol

Anybody still up? It's 1:50 in TN. The times on the posts always look funny to me. Maybe its the time zone. I'm not decorating tonight. Just can't sleep so I though I would check in with CC.

Yeah I'm still here. 3 more fondant lace motifs . . .

several of us still up. Leahs how many of those things did you have to make?

I'm still up making cookies and waiting for Dh to get home from work. It's still strange that I'm not freaking out over getting everything done for my normal orders. Funny thing is that most of my orders rescheduled to next weekend where I already had previous orders. I didn't want to say no since all of them had left deposits and well...........its not there fault a hurricane was coming

I'm still up too! Still baking, and not at all motivated.

I'm still here too. leah what is a lace motif?

Lace motif = molded lace out of fondant. Using those blue silicone molds.

Wow that seems like a lot of work to me. Are they done with molds? What kind/type/brand of molds works best for fondant/gumpaste? and where can you buy them?

Yeah, each is about 4" long, very detailed. I'll see if I can find a link.

ooh, I would love to see that, could you take a picture?

Flowers Medallion Mold by CK
Product ID #16623 on the Global Sugar Arts site.

That's the same one I've been using tonight.

awsome thanks!

OK, I'm going to bed now.

As Tim Gunn says, "Carry on!"

I've given up on the hot air balloon tonight, fresh eye tomorrow, but I'm working on a 4 jokers cake.

My husband looks at me so funny when I say I'm going to cut out fondant cards and paint the jokers on them....why don't you just put cards on the cake??

....umm...because I can!?!?! Because I want to see if I can, because thats what makes my cakes better than walmart, because....Just BECAUSE!!

That is how my husband is anytime I go to try something new! He doesnt understand that its like an addiction, always gotta keep pushing yourself more to see if you can 'do that too' lol

Hey guys - I just now stopped - actually finished - and checked in to see how everyone was doing.

I had three cakes to decorate tonight - one is delivered - and the other 2 are ready to go now and the kitchen is 'pretty' clean!

Tomorrow is Parents Day at DS college so we will be making a day trip to visit with him and see his fraternity house - that's all that matters - RIGHT?!?

Have a great day everyone - and trust me - I will need your help and company next Friday night!! Huge wedding cake plus grooms cake due for Saturday - for my best friends oldest DD wedding!! NNNNNNOooooo pressure!!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Suze

im off to bed. gnight and good luck to anyone still up

Hi everyone. Main computer is on life support so I'm using one that runs on hamster power...sloooooooowww...

Just finished a cake for coworker's daughter. I used the cinnamon toast cupcake recipe from the Cake Doctor. First time baking an 11 x 15 cake. Frosted in buttercream and decorated with fondant appliques using her party invitation as inspiration.

I think I'll clean the kitchen tomorrow.



To those of you still up and about, have a good night.

It is 3 a.m. here in Georgia. I am up making a cake for a bridal luncheon Saturday (which I guess is today...)

In ga here to, 3 am, got a pretty good grip on tommrrow , so going to bed for at least 4 hours , then, I will get up and get ready for my first delivery at 10:00, night guys, if your still up, hang in there....