I agree that the cricut is tool, to be used to make things easier/faster/more consistent if needing repetitions/etc. I have seen beautiful cakes where a cutter design is used over and over. The art is in the placement, color, enhancements, etc.

I just finished 60 cookies for school tomorrow. I used the Cricut to cut 60 "Thank You"s to go on top. I knew that that would be too flat, without pizazz, so then I piped on top. I used SCAL to set up a font, cut many at once. I do more cookies than cakes, so repetition is important to me.

cute cookies. i do like the piping on top.

Ok, so by reading everyone's comments I am now a bit uneasy about my purchase. I used it today for the first time to cut some letters and was not successful. Few things were my error but I was very upset when I rolled my gumpaste super thin and it cut right through to the mat.. now i have permanent letters on my mat?? Is that normal??????

all_for_my_baby, I posted the same question a couple of days ago and from the responses it seems that marking up the mat is normal. I don't like it but I was told it does not affect the outcome of whatever you are cutting. I guess thats why replacement mats are available.

Peg818 - I was thinking the very same thing. Glad to know that I was on the right track.

I have found that if you freeze it for about 5-6 minutes then brush a THIN layer of crisco on top of the gumpaste, it cuts perfectly for me. But somtimes I don't brush on the crisco on top, and it cuts great too.

I use it on a low pressure and it doesn't cut the mat, but having it marked up doesn't hurt the mat. It should be replaced after a while anyway.

Oh that is great to hear then. I was quite upset with myself for doing that ! lol .. I am going to keep trying and hopefully use the right consistancy to make it work!

OK, hate to bring this one up but....... yes the cricut mat gets cut, and the pieces of mat goes where? I found them on the pieces I had cut. Not good. Was using a magnifiy glass to clean up edges with knife and yep there they where. Thin pieces of mat I would never have seen with my eyes, stuck to pieces. Yummm....

I just got my cricut cake late last week and I was a bit apprehensive after I had read scary posts. Anyway I reluctantly used it to cut a few things and it was great. The thing is that my mat was cut. So I guess I will use very low pressure. Another thing to note for the people who think that there is no artistry with the circut...... You still have to use your design sense for the placement of things you cut. The cricut will not put the pieces on the cake and if you cut a thousand pieces of fondant or gumpaste, you will still have to attach it to your cake.
Anyway I look forward to playing some more with my cricut cake.

I have found the unit to fall short from all the claims Cricut has made about its capabilities if you purchase this machine make sure you do so from a retailer with a good return policy. When I first heard about this machine I thought it was genius now that I have used it I find it to be a huge letdown I'm glad I ordered it to at least get it out of my system lol.

I received my Cake Cricut last week but didn't have time to fool with it until last night and so far I love it! Tried gumpaste and then tried gumpaste/mmf and both worked great. No complaints as of yet.

I work in software in my day job and create cakes as a stress reliever. I see this kind of "complaining" going on in all environments.

I agreee that the Cricut Cake should be viewed as just a tool. It is nothing more than a glorified printer that the user MUST become familair with. Don't go blaming the tool when the user is not familiar with it or expects it to be God's Gift to make them famous. Just think of the projects that go wrong to be filed under PEBCAK. (look it up if you don't know what this tech issue code means).

Let it go and get on with learning what you have.

I bought mine with the intent for it to be a tool, nothing more. This debate is something else. But anyhoos . . .

I finally got a chance to play around with it on Saturday night. First of all - those icing sheets are NASTY. NASTY. NASTY. Who the hell would ever eat that crap???????? It makes gumpaste taste good.

This is actually a pretty complex little piece of equipment. It certainly isn't as easy as they make it out to be. So far I'm not excited, but I'm intrigued enough to keep going. I am doing a bumblebee cake this week, and am going to try using MMF for some flowers and stems. We'll see how that goes.

I'm new to the whole cake making, everything else. But I have been contemplating the idea of a cricut. But after all the post I think I will wait for a little bit. Once I get a bit experience on the cake buss. I will look into it again.

One thing I dont get is the issue over using or not using the cricut. I believe if you can do it by hand great. But some of us want to make life easier and other like me need all the help they can get (lol).

It worked for me and I was shocked, I am not one to have success my first try like that. I don't think I would have had any luck had I not used a pasta roller to get it thin enough, then if I got some dragging it was due to the blade needing cleaning from build up, or too much Crisco on the mat. I had a hard time rolling the gum-paste thin enough to even feed into my KA pasta roller, so I can only imagine attempting it without. It was pretty firm stuff using Toba Garretts recipe!
I am excited to try the gum paste recipe posted here too, and to attempt it with MMF as well as chocolate!
It seems like gum-paste works the best - and it has to be super thin.
Artists use mixed media all the time, this can be used to create the same way.
Cake collages

I work at Jo-Ann's and we received Cricut Cake Minis today.

I, too, would like to know what CMC is in the recipe.

I used my cc to do this cake for cheerleaders , letters etc and it was fun.........what the heckel and jeckel is cmc?

oops here is link lol

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1841548

Conchita the photos are not showing up, maybe you could email them to me?