9.26.08 Friday Night Cake Club - Page 4

I HATE BC roses! Mine are looking SO freaking anorexic it is pitiful! How can I get decent looking roses?

Hello everyone-

Leah....... What kind of airbrush do you recommend?

Hubby ordered mine from KopyKakes it's the big red one I love it

Molly

hahaha! that is what I was thinking too! Leah, you need some sleep girl!

Ugh... it sucks when you work so hard to ave to be destroyed in a split second! I'll be looking for the photos when you re-charge your batteries.

My cake isn't due til tomorrow, so I went to bed at 1 am last night hoping to finish most of it today so I won't have to pull an all-nighter tonight. I get to drop the kids off at grandma's , YAY!

I do the method of cutting a hole in the cake and never felt it was quite stable....can you give me more details on the form core wedge? Is that what you are talking about? Or point me in the direciton of the Lindy Smith way?

Thanks!

My friday night was thursday night..stayed up all night to finish for delivery this morning....last night went to bed early! haha! Just three weddings this week and two grooms cakes.

I got the same setup and LOVE IT. I had the cake decorator one (forget the name) and the compressor just isn't strong enough to do large cakes...so I pullled out my Iwata compressor and bought a new airbrush...it is SO much better!!

lorriemoms,

The wedge is for a tilted cake. The one I'm doing will be similar to the pic by paolacaracas, but with a "Construction" theme.

For my topsys, I just stack them like a normal tiered cake, putting a small dab of piping gel to help them stay in place and hammering 2 dowels through the entire cake and into the foam core base once it is stacked.

If the dowels aren't long enough to leave some on top to trim, or if there won't be a topper or other decor to hide the holes, then it's a bit more trciky as you have to cut holes in the cake board of the top tier to slide over the dowels.

For that, I hammer the dowels into all tiers except the top, leaving an inch or more protruding. Then I dab food color on the tips of the dowels to mark the areas where I'll have to make holes (on the underside of the top tier). It's precarious to make the holes since you have to do it from the underside, but it's not hard. Then you have to make sure that you are holding the top tier at the same angle as the tier below it so that when you slide it over the dowels it sits flush on top of the tier below.

I have never had a problem doing this, even with a raspberry filling that sits on top of a cheesecake filling (I dam it well!).

The old way was much more stressful for me, trying to make that hole just the right size so that the tier resting on the flat spot doesn't crack the dam or leave a gap that must be covered with a big border.

I saw Lindy do it in her book "Cakes to Inspire and Desire", so I I gave it a shot and never looked back.

The pink cake was huge and I delivered it fully assembled without issue. (I deliver all of my topsys assembled, but they have all been 2-tiered).

I knew it! That AGBAY on eBay is up to $122.50 already... 4 hrs to go.

Thank you! I have a cake this week that is a two tier and will give this a try...I always felt I was compromising the cake with cutting out part of it to place the next tier!!

Good luck with your agbay search! I LOVE mine! (this year I asked Santa to give me the double one, as I do torte everything!)

I know Mac!! Some people do NOT know how to bid on ebay. My strategy is the same as yours. You just LOOK until 30 - 40 seconds are left - then you get busy bidding!!

It's still cheaper than purchasing one direct -- but it probably won't be by the time 4:00 p.m. rolls around today?

Are you going to be bidding on it? If you are - then I won't since you found it first . . . I'll order one from the company. Just let me know.

Suze

Ugh, Leah! Stay in bed til tomorrow

No way am I bidding on it now. Shipping is only $4 and I don't know how much shipping is from the AGBAYcompany, but for the price I'd rather have a brand new one.

Heck, for those who have a single blade and want o upgrade to the double blade, at least now you know you'll get more for it than you paid if you put it on eBay!