Thank you, no I didnt....wish I had time to 

ATiddy that is great. I've seen a few lego cakes and have wanted to make one for so long but haven't had the chance. Yours is fantastic. Do you mind me asking where you got your moulds from?

Sorry can't help with your question I don't sell my cakes either.

Oooh I think I may have found one! The joys of google 

Sugarluva, I always use Netimoulds if I need a mould. I've yet to need one they haven't had and they are super fast with delivery as well as the best quality...have a look but be warned....every time I get bored I browse and it ends up costing me a fortune! Can you ever have too much equipment? That's a good question ladies haha! when do you stop!

AHaha tiddy I don't think you could ever stop. I have completely taken over our spare bedroom with a big shelving unit from ikea filled with boxes and tubs full of cake stuff! Everything is very organised though I must say but it's crazy! I don't even sell my cakes and there is so much I still 'need' haha

I'm the same! Its terrible! Husband person just gives me a look when i say "but I needed it!" lol

AGood grief, what a day :( I've had a bit of a nightmare with everything today, my timings have all gone up the south due to family stuff, and then my SP has really been misbehaving and I've ripped 3 lots off my dummies....not good! Don't know what's been going on as I've tried 2 brands of SP - only thing in common was the grey colouring I was using. Then switched to a duck egg blue/green and it seems ok! Grrr!

On the upside, our shopping delivery had an accidental bag of jam donuts on it, so that helped a little! ;)

I'm now a bit terrified of attaching my big peony safely. I've never made one this size before and it's really weighty! It's on a wire, but I'm still really scared it's just going to drop off! Has anyone else done something like this, and if so how? The cake will have to travel as well. With other flowers I've used picks and royal, but this is a dummy so was going to just stick the wire right in, possibly through an extra lump of SP as a 'seat' all anchored together with royal or candy melts?

Sorry for the me post, will check back later when things aren't quite so fraught to catch up!

AHi all, Barbara & Tiddy, your cakes are beautiful.

Tiddy, if a customer needs a cake to be delivered, the I give the price. I normally charge £1 per mile. :)

Mel, if you have used a thick wire to make your peony, then you can fold the wire in half and insert directly into the dummy. Here is one that I did few years ago...

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Tiddylicious - I'm not commerical - I just do cakes for close friends and family.  I do get paid for some but usually its a gift.  

I am not interested in going retail personally I dont think it makes any money and in this area so many bakers selling ridiculously cheap. In the real word a decorated cake like your lego one should be sold around £60 - £80 mark.

My experience with couriers (we use a lot with our business) is be very careful I have so many items delivered broken or packaging damaged and wonder who you would use for delivery. No company could guarantee it arriving un-rattled. I have sent fresh meat which has been good but on tender-hooks if it arrives or the person not there to accept it. I would assume you need hand delivery which is very very costly.

Bashini your cake is beauitful.

I'm the same ladies have taken over an old wardrobe in the spare room and shelved it to store the cake stuff that I can't fit in my bookcase I have in the kitchen. I keep saying I'm not buying anything for a while now I don't need it but then find something that I need! My husband person doesn't complain and if he does I just make him a chocolate cake and shut him up haha 

ABashini that's lovely! I used an 18g wire so that might work, I think I'm just going to have to do it and see, so scary when you've done all that work lol!

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Hiya Mel, if you're really worried you could wrap the excess wire round a big long bamboo skewer and then tape over the top, I've done that before, it would probably have been ok but had to be sure to be sure :-)

Beautiful cake Bashini! 

Is that wallpaper you used for the background? Was that excess you had lying around or did you buy it? I'm wondering where I can purchase wallpaper by the meter rather than by the roll for my cake pictures!

AI just grab individual rolls from charity shops for 50p or £1 :-)

ALol Gray :) that's a very good idea actually, I might see if I can do that! I wouldn't normally be too bothered, but it's just so heavy! I used a flower paste cone but I think I need to invest in some poly buds from now on with these statement flowers!

Gray, fab! Thanks! I've got quite a few things I need to look for in charity shops next week. Hopefully they've got some nice ones in :)

AHello everyone, been so busy over last 24hours of course doing t tail-less horse cake that caused me no end of problems, think I ran out if time reaaly as was out with friends in afternoon. I have now decided I need to plan advance the techiques required before I start as still got so much to learn things seem to take me ages, I hope you were all slow starters please say yes to make me feel better lol!!

Sorry if I miss anyone out but here goes, Nanny bird cage cake was fab how did the hen do cake go down?

Gray not chatted to you on here yet but have you done the marathon, how was it? I started running last year and trained hard for 8months to do the great south run (10miles) only to very annoyingly incur a hamstring strain 3 weeks before preventing me from doing it. Still cant run more than two miles now - boo:-[

I made my own cake release petitecat same as your recipe got it off youtube, great isnt it.

Siany good luck with colourings ;)

Tiddylicious the wedding cake I'm doing in 18months time is believe it or not lego just like your cake! How hard is it please? She wants 3 tiers of this !!!

Bashini seeing your beautiful cake makes me really want to buy that ribbon !! I got stacking unit for all my cake gear today and bearing in mind I'm a behinner its suprising how much stuff I already have !

AApologies that last message riddled with misspelt words! Now off tablet and on phone, Mel how we're those donuts ? Xx

I'm still very slow Jo! That cake release recipe is a gem :)

I can't run at all now. I used to be a personal trainer and aerobics instructor, but started getting knee pains especially during aerobics classes and I'd still have them next day. GP concluded 'wear and tear'. Whaaat! He said it was genes. Some people can withstand decades of high impact, and I was one of the ones who couldn't. Now I make cakes and hardly get to the gym, oh dear. 

Gosh what a fab cake to make, not just lego, but a wedding lego! I guess the bride and groom toppers are going to be lego ones! fab fab fab!

Mel show us a piccie of your fake cake :)

AHi jo don't you worry you soon speed up :-) a cake that took me 7 hours a year or so ago I now do in about 4! :-)

I ain't ready for a marathon yet!! I can manage maybe 6 miles tops then it takes 5 dats to recover ha ha... Maybe one day :-)

I love charity shops, I've a load of candlesticks I plan on making into cake stands too just need a few glass/wood/brass plates to go on top!

Really glad that helps Mel :-) if you don't want the flower tape to touch cake you can pop a straw in first then poke the skewer in through the straw :-)

I did actually joke earlier that it would be a great wedding cake! I can imagine all the little men going up ladders lol. It was surprisingly easy to do! If you have moulds! 

Total of 2 hours 

AI must be in a good mood look at all those happy faces! Lol

Gray, crazy! (hehe) I'm going to make own cake stands too for the summer fair I'm selling in, and just because I want a collection lol

AYes she wants to be different ! Think the lego bride and groom will be super cute though eh?? I was fine up until pushing myself to the 8mile mark and then never been the same since. It must sad for you too then after all your dedication, so sad when your body stops you from going on but all you want to do is carry on!

AThanks everyone. :)

Mel, do what ever thinks works best. You don't anything happen to it after your hard work :-) Mel, I use to do the cones with flower paste but converted to using cel buds now as it doesn't make the flowers heavy.. And love to see the cake too!!!!

Jo, I have to do the same cake but three tiers with pink and purple peonies. The bottom tier is going to be just a normal 10" round dummy. You can buy those trims on eBay quite cheap...:)

ATiddylicious definately going to get moulds will get them at some point to try out! I'm excited to do it but very nervous as she is one of my best friends so I will be there at the wedding and will have to see everyone's reaction to it!

Gray keep up the running I wish I could !

AHi all just catching up. My peonies are all in various stages but abandoned over last two days while I took advantage of the weather and did some gardening and power hosed the patio. I used to spend all spare time either in greenhouses or gardening until I took up "caking".

Cupcakes - don't make them often but use ice cream scoop.

Birdcage cakes - made 2. One was a dummy alongside a real cake. Second was 2 x 6" cakes plus 6" pudding basin. I reckoned it was still too "squat" so I sat it on a 6" dummy as it was a cake donated to a village fete raffle. Used the Karen Davies love bird moulds for the robins. (Both in my pics). Would be careful about adding too much gum trag as although it helps with the tearing problem, it will dry hard and it is meant to be eaten rather than removed.

Mel I think your plan for the peony sounds good. Let me know how it works as my peony has to travel too.

Like you all, the cake equipment/fetish has overtaken my shoe addiction. Never thought my "walk-in" wardrobe would be housing cake stuff. Always something new I "need".

Also have discovered another odd habit - I can no longer just admire flowers in a garden or on holiday - I have to examine and take photos to think how I could do them in sugar. I was all over my neighbours peony bush this afternoon. "Sad, sad"!

Just to make you laugh, almost disaster today. Making Delia's sherry mincemeat cake which soaks the dried fruit and mincemeat soaked overnight in sherry. Just put cake in the oven and went to put flour and sugar back in pantry when I spotted the 2 jars of mincemeat on shelf. Quick scream, pulled cake out of oven, set DH on relining tin while I tipped cake mixture back in mixing bowl with mincemeat and liberal slug of brandy. Just taken out of oven, smells and looks fab. No harm done. Another senior moment coped with. :grin:

Fab cakes as always ladies.

ACatsmum that's a funny tale, I have senior moments at 32 !

A[IMG]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/3230887/width/200/height/400[/IMG]this is what she wants, but she will only be getting three tiers !!