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post #16 of 30
7/29/11 at 8:57pm
Also, we have alot of food trucks in the Twin Cities during the lunch hour. All gourmet and under ten dollars for most meals! They line up on the streets by the river in St Paul...my full time job is downtown St Paul...in fact the news just did a story on the Food Trucks a few nights ago...the new thing...long gone are just hot dogs! lol
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post #17 of 30
7/29/11 at 9:12pm
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I@JSK We've been convening the FNCC for about 3 years now, I think. Since so many of us are up working on Friday nights it's nice to have others to "talk" to. We solve problems too!

We're just starting to get food trucks here. Very trendy and cool!
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post #18 of 30
7/29/11 at 9:31pm
We have 1 food truck in town that I know of. They sell Hawaiian food. However, the city where my husband works have them all over the place!
You have your basic hot dog trucks to the gourmet lunch trucks.
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post #19 of 30
7/29/11 at 9:46pm
Good Evening you you all. Im working on a 2 tier baby shower cake due Sunday. I just finished baking the cakes about 2 hours ago. And I still have my BC to whip up but Im tired. I might just leave that for tomorrow morning, my arms and hands are in pain.

I did all the decorations yesterday.

280 small cut out leaves in pastel colors (pink, yellow,green,blue)
2 birds nest and 2 eggs.
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post #20 of 30
7/29/11 at 9:55pm
Cupcakes done. I think I'll wait until tomorrow to put the sheet cake together. I'm just too tired to stand up in the kitchen any longer.

Does anyone have the Gel Pro mats in their kitchen? My feet and legs get tired so quickly lately. I think I might need to head down to BB&B with my coupon and by me one!
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post #21 of 30
7/29/11 at 10:02pm
Just got my simple birthday cake all done and in the box! It's midnight here and I've been up since 5am...so I hear you about the aching legs and feet...I have always wondered about those gel mats too. Let me know if it helps...if you go buy it!
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post #22 of 30
7/29/11 at 10:07pm
Hi Leah...I just joined a few months ago. My daughter stumbled across this site and its awesome! My daughter is just learning how to decorate and I've let her sign us up on here, so some of the cakes on here are hers and some are mine. I'm finding she is good at sculpting fondant and is very creative, so
she should come along well...she likes the fondant work. I still have to hone her piping skills though. lol She's afraid of the bag because she says I make it look easy and she knows its a knack you learn.

Good to know there are friendly ears out there all over the world to chat with when a person needs a break and understands how much work cakes are, even if we love doing it! I think I'll putter around a few more minutes and call it a night! Happy to be here!
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post #23 of 30
7/29/11 at 10:11pm
Hello All.

I'm not working on anything at the moment but should be. I have a dairy free cake due Sunday for a 5th birthday party. Did a dairy free cake 2 yrs. ago but didn't document. Trying to remember how I did the cake. I have the recipe for the frosting which turned out very good.

Leah, we have many food trucks in my area. They serve anything from lobster rolls to cupcakes. They are very popular.
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post #24 of 30
7/29/11 at 10:18pm
Yay! Second week in a row for me to be part of the club. I'm doing a 2-tier square zebra print cake with a big pink bow for tomorrow. At least I hope it will have a bow...I got the request Wednesday and didn't do the bow loops until last night. I didn't have gumpaste so I just added tylose powder and they are still soft. Hopefully, I'll be able to assemble the bow tomorrow. Just iced and smoothed the bottom tier - waiting for the crust to set in so I can Viva it.

I also have a single tier Thomas the Tank Engine for Sunday. Cakes are baked, BC is made. It's going to have a lot of fondant decorations, though, so tomorrow night looks to be a long one, too!

Well, on to Viva!
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post #25 of 30
7/29/11 at 10:19pm
Well, technically it's now Saturday for me.....but I spent the afternoon working on a little daisy bouquet cake for my mom's 65th birthday tomorrow. This evening I filled and iced up cakes to set for another zebra printbirthday cake I have to make for a one year old on sunday. I love busy Fridays!
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post #26 of 30
7/29/11 at 10:41pm
Hello all! First time posting on the FNC. No baking for me tonight. I've just been surfing this site and the net on tutes for zebra print cakes. I have to make one for my nieces birthday on the 20th. I've never done zebra but I've now seen so much info I'm pretty sure it will be alright (famous last words icon_smile.gif) What I have to research now is how to get a hot pink color, and if not I'll make it white with zebra and I wanted feathers for the topper but I still have to find a store that carries them.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to make a new strawberry cake recipe to see how it turns out. Oops, it's already tomorrow icon_lol.gif

Happy caking all!
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post #27 of 30
7/29/11 at 11:11pm
i can't believe it...today I baked, filled, frosting, covered in fondant AND decorated a 3 tier cake! I was so behind because I had more time at work this week and never could get in the preparation I wanted. today i took the day off and got EVERYTHING done...just now icon_lol.gif

it is a 3 tiered lavender covered cake with multiple colors of purple blossoms cascading down; and some butterflies. I sure hope the groom is ok with all this purple! icon_rolleyes.gif
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post #28 of 30
7/29/11 at 11:17pm
leah, we have kinda a weird area where everything is so spread out so we don't have food trucks. however, i'm sure that milwaukee and chicago do icon_lol.gif

I have actually been thinking about doing something like this...couldn't be a bad idea if it works for others!
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post #29 of 30
7/30/11 at 6:36am
Lili5758, what a coincidence...I have a strawberry cake with zebra print on fondant in neon green, hot pink and black due for next Friday...an 11 yr birthday! (where did the zebra thing come from? was there a Disney connection?) The hot pink has been the hardest thing to do. I can get to hot pink with pink food coloring but you won't believe how fast it fades....like in a matter of hours. The gumpaste bows are hot pink and I moved them out of sunlight but they still faded. I read that Wilton pink fades but I found that Americolor pink does too. I finally ended up dusting it with a hot pink dust. The electric green (colored with neon green Americolor) doesn't seem to have a fading problem so I think my fondant will be alright. How does eveyone else get a hot pink (I think of it as bubblegum pink) in gumpaste not fade?

And Leah, we have plenty of trucks out here but no food on them (unless you count watermelons or tomatoes or live pigs)....food trucks are what I miss most about California...there's a taco truck in Berkeley that just the thought of makes my mouth water.
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post #30 of 30
7/30/11 at 8:17pm
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Originally Posted by southerncross

The hot pink has been the hardest thing to do. I can get to hot pink with pink food coloring but you won't believe how fast it fades....like in a matter of hours. The gumpaste bows are hot pink and I moved them out of sunlight but they still faded. I read that Wilton pink fades but I found that Americolor pink does too. I finally ended up dusting it with a hot pink dust.
How does eveyone else get a hot pink (I think of it as bubblegum pink) in gumpaste not fade?



Wow! I didn't know that about the fading! I'm going to start this week experimenting with different pinks even a bit of red maybe? on pieces of fondant to see what I get. I just hope I can get a nice hot pink and that it'll last at least a cou0ple of hours! Oh boy!! icon_cry.gif
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