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bashini Posted 2 Nov 2011 , 11:51am
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Hi allabout, I think once they have made the towers, they have cut a strip of paste and using a square cutter, have made the square edging and pasted t around the tower.

By the way, that particular cake was done by one of CC member's. You can PM her and ask any questions. icon_smile.gif

http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1376054

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allaboutcakeuk Posted 2 Nov 2011 , 1:04pm
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Hi allabout, I think once they have made the towers, they have cut a strip of paste and using a square cutter, have made the square edging and pasted t around the tower.

By the way, that particular cake was done by one of CC member's. You can PM her and ask any questions. icon_smile.gif

http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1376054




Hi Bashini many thanks. I've covered each cake in dark grey a thin layer then was going to wait till it dried a little and add the cobblestone effect in pieces like i've done for box cakes? then do the edging along on the top - just a little worried that the top of the cobblestone on the sides of the cake needs to be a little higher and will start to flop over if you see what i mean? or whether to do the cobblestone just to the height of the sides of the cake then make the square cut out poke up a little higher? The turrets are drying so hopefully be firm enough to do the square cutter round top of those. One other question I'm doing the moat in RI with piping gel - do you think that will soften the base of the turrets too much or be ok? thank u icon_smile.gif I PMd that person not heard yet but they may not be on line just yet. Just seem to have had trouble deciding on what to do first and so forth!
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bashini Posted 2 Nov 2011 , 4:34pm
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Hi allabout, with what did you make the towers? Since you are using RI and then a this layer of piping get, I don't think the turrets go soft. If you use all piping gel, then it would go soft.

I would do the cobble stone effect up to the height of the tower, not above that. It would have been easier if you had the cobble stone effect mat. icon_smile.gif Also I would do the square edging with flower paste, so it would dry hard.

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allaboutcakeuk Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 9:13am
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Hi Bashini, I made the towers out of pastillage. I iced the cakes yday and did the top part in flower paste as u suggested, and let it dry a little and put on with RI. I will put the towers in place today I think and then fill with the RI and let it set a little and add piping gel just a little on top for shine? I luckily had ordered the big cobblestone mat and it arrived on monday thankfully! I had a little one but it was rubbish and had a hard edge so left lines all over. thank u for your help. hop it stays put so much icing!

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bashini Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 9:21am
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Its good that you made the towers with pastillage and hope you made them a bt thicker too? I would wait till the RI dry completley and then put a very thin layer of piping gel. icon_smile.gif

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LisaPeps Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 9:37am
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Hi Bashini, I made the towers out of pastillage. I iced the cakes yday and did the top part in flower paste as u suggested, and let it dry a little and put on with RI. I will put the towers in place today I think and then fill with the RI and let it set a little and add piping gel just a little on top for shine? I luckily had ordered the big cobblestone mat and it arrived on monday thankfully! I had a little one but it was rubbish and had a hard edge so left lines all over. thank u for your help. hop it stays put so much icing!




Which mat is this and where did you order it from? I've only ever seen the small ones which are absolutely rubbish.

On another note... I'm getting sooo nervous about the cake show tomorrow. Im entering the class where the cake has to be entirely edible. I want to use
Glitter on it but they have reclassified glitter to non toxic so it's not edible but eating it won't harm you >icon_sad.gif I'm going to ring them in a bit and see if I would get disqualified over something like that.

I might post a picture in a bit, I'm not loving it at the moment.

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allaboutcakeuk Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 2:56pm
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Hi Bashini, I made the towers out of pastillage. I iced the cakes yday and did the top part in flower paste as u suggested, and let it dry a little and put on with RI. I will put the towers in place today I think and then fill with the RI and let it set a little and add piping gel just a little on top for shine? I luckily had ordered the big cobblestone mat and it arrived on monday thankfully! I had a little one but it was rubbish and had a hard edge so left lines all over. thank u for your help. hop it stays put so much icing!



Which mat is this and where did you order it from? I've only ever seen the small ones which are absolutely rubbish.

On another note... I'm getting sooo nervous about the cake show tomorrow. Im entering the class where the cake has to be entirely edible. I want to use
Glitter on it but they have reclassified glitter to non toxic so it's not edible but eating it won't harm you >icon_sad.gif I'm going to ring them in a bit and see if I would get disqualified over something like that.

I might post a picture in a bit, I'm not loving it at the moment.




Hi Lisa that is a shame about the glitter, but I bet the cake is fantastic. I can't wait to see it! don't be nervous I bet it is going to be great. It's worth checking you know how strict some can be over little things. I got marked down from gold to silver over wrong board size! eek.

The mat is brill its about 19" x 23" I bought it from Surbiton Sugar Art http://www.surbitonart.co.uk/ - it's under texture mat cobblestone. lovely and big! icon_smile.gif look forward to the picture!

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allaboutcakeuk Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 2:57pm
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Its good that you made the towers with pastillage and hope you made them a bt thicker too? I would wait till the RI dry completley and then put a very thin layer of piping gel. icon_smile.gif




I got carried away and didnt let it dry and stuck the towers in first.. they are reasonably thick i just hope they don't dissolve overnight! I didn't put too much round the bottom icon_sad.gif

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LisaPeps Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 5:48pm
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Hi Bashini, I made the towers out of pastillage. I iced the cakes yday and did the top part in flower paste as u suggested, and let it dry a little and put on with RI. I will put the towers in place today I think and then fill with the RI and let it set a little and add piping gel just a little on top for shine? I luckily had ordered the big cobblestone mat and it arrived on monday thankfully! I had a little one but it was rubbish and had a hard edge so left lines all over. thank u for your help. hop it stays put so much icing!



Which mat is this and where did you order it from? I've only ever seen the small ones which are absolutely rubbish.

On another note... I'm getting sooo nervous about the cake show tomorrow. Im entering the class where the cake has to be entirely edible. I want to use
Glitter on it but they have reclassified glitter to non toxic so it's not edible but eating it won't harm you >icon_sad.gif I'm going to ring them in a bit and see if I would get disqualified over something like that.

I might post a picture in a bit, I'm not loving it at the moment.



Hi Lisa that is a shame about the glitter, but I bet the cake is fantastic. I can't wait to see it! don't be nervous I bet it is going to be great. It's worth checking you know how strict some can be over little things. I got marked down from gold to silver over wrong board size! eek.

The mat is brill its about 19" x 23" I bought it from Surbiton Sugar Art http://www.surbitonart.co.uk/ - it's under texture mat cobblestone. lovely and big! icon_smile.gif look forward to the picture!




Do you have any other tips while I've got time to change things if I need to? What was wrong with your board?

I went to the local cake shop and bought edible art and Karen Davies magic sparkles, the lady in the shop assured me they were edible. I couldn't see anywhere on the packaging where it says for decoration only so fingers crossed icon_smile.gif

I'm happier with it now but i don't know whether to put my sugar birds on it. One of them has a messy join so I'm in two minds. The other option would be sugar bubbles and chocolate spheres on the top. Is it better to have a slightly messy harder technique or a quite clean easier technique?? Hmmm...

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LaBellaTorta Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 6:47pm
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1 sleep to Cake International - Sooooooooooooooo excited!!!

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melonball Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 8:35pm
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I'm so excited for Cake international tomorrow!!

Already in Birmingham and fixed the cake disaster I had on the way up.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's cakes tomorrow!! I'm doing the novice class.......

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LisaPeps Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 8:51pm
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Oh dear, what happened?

I'm entering the novice class too. I live about 40 minutes away so will be travelling there in the morning.

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melonball Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 9:24pm
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A bit fell off and make a dent which I couldn't fix but it's not very big, and left 3 black sploges which I could fix!!
On a plus note the bit that fell off I wasn't 100% happy with the replacement I'm much happier with!

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LisaPeps Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 10:54pm
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I just finished mine tonight, I thought if it's got to be all edible I'll make it so my family can eat it afterwards. Only took me 4 days. It's chocolate cake with strawberry liqueur and champagne buttercream.

I'm so nervous, keep thinking it'll fall apart in transit. I've got my repair kit packed and ready :S

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LisaPeps Posted 3 Nov 2011 , 10:58pm
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A bit fell off and make a dent which I couldn't fix but it's not very big, and left 3 black sploges which I could fix!!
On a plus note the bit that fell off I wasn't 100% happy with the replacement I'm much happier with!




Glad you managed to get it fixed! I made my replacement bubbles tonight and sod's law they turned out better than the ones already stuck on the cake! Always the way lol

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allaboutcakeuk Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 11:41am
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Hi Bashini, I made the towers out of pastillage. I iced the cakes yday and did the top part in flower paste as u suggested, and let it dry a little and put on with RI. I will put the towers in place today I think and then fill with the RI and let it set a little and add piping gel just a little on top for shine? I luckily had ordered the big cobblestone mat and it arrived on monday thankfully! I had a little one but it was rubbish and had a hard edge so left lines all over. thank u for your help. hop it stays put so much icing!



Which mat is this and where did you order it from? I've only ever seen the small ones which are absolutely rubbish.

On another note... I'm getting sooo nervous about the cake show tomorrow. Im entering the class where the cake has to be entirely edible. I want to use
Glitter on it but they have reclassified glitter to non toxic so it's not edible but eating it won't harm you >icon_sad.gif I'm going to ring them in a bit and see if I would get disqualified over something like that.

I might post a picture in a bit, I'm not loving it at the moment.



Hi Lisa that is a shame about the glitter, but I bet the cake is fantastic. I can't wait to see it! don't be nervous I bet it is going to be great. It's worth checking you know how strict some can be over little things. I got marked down from gold to silver over wrong board size! eek.

The mat is brill its about 19" x 23" I bought it from Surbiton Sugar Art http://www.surbitonart.co.uk/ - it's under texture mat cobblestone. lovely and big! icon_smile.gif look forward to the picture!



Do you have any other tips while I've got time to change things if I need to? What was wrong with your board?

I went to the local cake shop and bought edible art and Karen Davies magic sparkles, the lady in the shop assured me they were edible. I couldn't see anywhere on the packaging where it says for decoration only so fingers crossed icon_smile.gif

I'm happier with it now but i don't know whether to put my sugar birds on it. One of them has a messy join so I'm in two minds. The other option would be sugar bubbles and chocolate spheres on the top. Is it better to have a slightly messy harder technique or a quite clean easier technique?? Hmmm...




I would definitely say keep it as clean as possible. I would prefer to be clean than messy and more technical but that's just me. My board was not big enough. Should have been 2" wider than the cake but it was only 1.5" - I did double board it and thought that would have been ok as final board was bigger but it wasn't. This was for a final exam by the way. edible art is totally edible as far as i'm aware and it's a really nice fine glitter too. How is it going with the cake? icon_smile.gif wishing u lots of luck

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LisaPeps Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 12:50pm
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It got there in 1 piece but I don't think it'll win. Can't wait to find out what the judges say though. Ughhh I've bought so much stuff already!

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allaboutcakeuk Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 3:43pm
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It got there in 1 piece but I don't think it'll win. Can't wait to find out what the judges say though. Ughhh I've bought so much stuff already!




have u got a pic? icon_smile.gif

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Valkstar Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 4:34pm
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I'm flying over tomorrow to the show...I'll be looking out for your cakes icon_biggrin.gif

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LisaPeps Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 4:49pm
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It got there in 1 piece but I don't think it'll win. Can't wait to find out what the judges say though. Ughhh I've bought so much stuff already!



have u got a pic? icon_smile.gif




I just uploaded one

http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2196710

There were sooo many people there today it was ridiculous! IManaged to get a wilton giant cupcake pan for £15, they usually cost about £30 so I was happy with that icon_smile.gif

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allaboutcakeuk Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 5:43pm
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It got there in 1 piece but I don't think it'll win. Can't wait to find out what the judges say though. Ughhh I've bought so much stuff already!



have u got a pic? icon_smile.gif



I just uploaded one

http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2196710

There were sooo many people there today it was ridiculous! IManaged to get a wilton giant cupcake pan for £15, they usually cost about £30 so I was happy with that icon_smile.gif




The cake is fabulous well done! I'm sure you are going to do well. When do you find out the judges decisions? I know it's so tempting to buy so much but worth it for a few bargains. I wish I had gone this year but thought I would give it a break this year and go next time icon_smile.gif

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LisaPeps Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 6:08pm
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Tomorrow morning I hope. My only concern is that my vision wasn't quite as literal as the other entries eg Christmas trees, father christmas, snow scenes, reindeer stables etc... There were a couple of entries where they did alot of royal icing techniques and for competitions I believe they are favoured. Also, you weren't allowed to write a description of the techniques you used so I'm thinking mine will get overlooked.

I don't know why I'm stressing because there's nothing I can do about it now lol

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melonball Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 6:29pm
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LisaPeps I saw your cake!!! As soon as I saw it I remembered you said on here about bubbles and bird so I knew it was yours!! It was fab!!
Mine was one of the many penguins and igloos!!

I'll try and upload a picture.

Do you see the white tiger? It was AWESOME!!! Could have been a real tiger head!!

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melonball Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 9:50pm
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I forgot to say I spoke to one of the judges and she said the results would be on the table tomorrow morning.

I cannot get my photo to up load on here!!!

This is it on my facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150523106937519&set=a.10150523106757519.473616.675427518&type=1&theater

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LisaPeps Posted 4 Nov 2011 , 10:43pm
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I love the leopard seal, what a cutey lol! I'm gonna get there first thing just so I can see what they say lol the anticipation is killing me...

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melonball Posted 5 Nov 2011 , 8:01am
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I'm not back there until tomorrow!! Will have to hold out and see...

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LisaPeps Posted 5 Nov 2011 , 8:37am
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I'll have a look out for yours, if you want me to let you know how you did?

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melonball Posted 5 Nov 2011 , 8:40am
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Thanks for the offer kind of want to see it for myself and what everyone else got.

Fingers crossed for you too x

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melonball Posted 5 Nov 2011 , 9:18am
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Finally uploaded my cake on here!!!

http://cakecentral.com/gallery/2197212/

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allaboutcakeuk Posted 5 Nov 2011 , 2:40pm
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Well done ladies the cakes are fab - I hope it all went well for you today and you had a great day and results icon_smile.gif x

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