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post #16 of 34
8/5/11 at 8:15pm
Leah, how big is your kitchen? I wonder how you have room for all the cakes and candy buffets you do.
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post #17 of 34
8/5/11 at 8:27pm
You guys with all these multiple orders on any given weekend...you make me want to run home with my tail between my legs!! icon_eek.gif

I've got my first wedding cake tomorrow. Fortunately it's my gift to my sister for her wedding, so I probably dodged some stress by it not being a paid order. I made 41 gumpaste calla lilies this week to go on it. My (personal) fridge went out this afternoon as I was icing the tiers...not good. It's been a crazy day.
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post #18 of 34
8/5/11 at 8:30pm
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I have a breakfast room next to my kitchen that is the cake holding room. I'll pull all the glassware for the candy buffet, dump in all the candies then wrap it all and put in back in the bins. Then when I get to the venue, i just pull out the glassware and set it.
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post #19 of 34
8/5/11 at 8:30pm
I'm working on a new recipe for root beer cake. I'm going for a big root beer flavor, but it's not there yet. It is very moist and still tasty though! I'm also prepping for tomorrow, when my son will be decorating his first cake. He's 4 and came up with an idea. I couldn't be more proud - he sketched out his idea using my colored pencils and described all of the elements, even telling me which ones would be in fondant. Gotta love it when my 4-year-old uses the word fondant appropriately! I'm baking a little cake for him and I'm going to let him use my cutters, etc. tomorrow to make his own little cake. Made the fondant tonight too.
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post #20 of 34
8/5/11 at 8:53pm
I just finished crumb coating the tiers for a 2 tier Princess cake for a 4 year old girl for tomorrow night. Just made my fondant for morning....looking at the mess I still have to clean up before turning in...glad delivery isn't until late afternoon tomorrow. Next weekend I have 3 orders, a pretty simple birthday cake, a 2 tier Little Prince shower cake with 48 mini cupcakes, and a 2 tier Tangled Rapunzel cake with 24 mini cupcakes...been getting the fondant work done for those done today too. The crown and the tower for Rapunzel...lots of detail for that cake. Been so hot and humid here too...suppose to break on Sunday for a few days, that will be nice.
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post #21 of 34
8/5/11 at 9:03pm
Hey Ladies!! I have a bit of a situation over here! First time this has happened but I wanted to get you all's take on it.. Earlier I completed a 3 tiered chocolate square topsy turvy cake. Well I just checked on it and it has cracked! The middle tier cracked completely the chocolate cake was not dense enough well I started taking them apart and the bottom tier is cracked a little too, but possibly salvageable? So Now it is 12am, and the cake is due at 10am... I know i'm going to have to pull an all nighter but what do you think my next steps should be? I know I will have to rebake a middle tier, but the design was just a solid pink (no decorating). Should I scrap that recipe for a dense one and advise her on the difference? I have a recipe for a pound but would that ruin the bottom tier as well? The third tier is perfectly fine, the bottom effy and the middle is done! what do you think??
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post #22 of 34
8/5/11 at 9:09pm
No orders here either. I am making balloon columns tonight just because I can't sleep and keep thinking about my daughters 1st birthday in 5 months. ( I have time but I don't count november and December) I love youtube!
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post #23 of 34
8/5/11 at 9:47pm
Gosh what a big fat drag JP...Did it crack where the dowels are? I've never done a topsy cake, my
only advice may be to redo the middle tier (UGH!!) and see if the bottom can be saved when you restack? Is this a BC cake or fondant?
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post #24 of 34
8/5/11 at 9:52pm
My business partner and I just opened our shop on June 30th! This is my first Friday Night Cake Club post-how exciting. We are working on a Tinkerbell sheetcake, LEGO birthday cake, 2-tier Texas Tech graduation cake and 3 cupcake orders. And its HOT!!
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post #25 of 34
8/5/11 at 10:00pm
I finished and delivered a fondant covered zebra print birthday cake for an 11 yr olds birthday. Does anyone know where this zebra fad started? I also finished a four tier wedding cake with sugar paste roses between the elevated tiers. It's a french vanilla cake with citrus mousseline filling, dark chocolate ganache and white chocolate fondant. It's ready for delivery and set up tomorrow. And it's been the easiest wedding cake I've ever made. And all thanks to two things: Albert Uster fondant and SPS. The fondant rolls out like a dream and the SPS makes stacking effortless. I've never been this relaxed after a wedding cake and I never would have tackled a second fondant birthday cake before. Easy weekend.
No license or insurance. Put lead wires in cakes, never wash hands, cake boards are used cardboard. No contracts cause I can't read or write. No lawyer cause I'm judgment proof. I bake with old mix boxes found behind Walmart. Now about my question
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No license or insurance. Put lead wires in cakes, never wash hands, cake boards are used cardboard. No contracts cause I can't read or write. No lawyer cause I'm judgment proof. I bake with old mix boxes found behind Walmart. Now about my question
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post #26 of 34
8/5/11 at 10:06pm
Tell me about it!! I am baking the middle tier as we speak, I'm going to have to weight it, and then cover it probably around 7ish, giving me about an hour and a half to put humpty dumpty back together again! My only hope is that the bottom tier holds! One corner of the bottom tier acts as if it wants to come apart but I'm going to try and glue it alittle with some buttercream... It is fondant, I've had satin ice crack on me before like this during a delivery... I hate working with satin ice sometimes!! I'm sure the dowels are what did it in, the cake was not as dense as it should have been and the dowels where loose in the cake when I pulled them out! icon_sad.gif I was so looking forward to going to bed but it is going to be nothing but trouble here!!
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post #27 of 34
8/5/11 at 10:12pm
40th birthday cake. Still haven't done all my fondant cut outs and it's due tomorrow! icon_eek.gificon_cry.gificon_surprised.gif

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post #28 of 34
8/5/11 at 10:15pm
Good luck to you JP...I know a lot of people like Satin Ice but I've had that problem before and I always go back to making my own MMF...and I buy fondant for decorations. icon_sad.gif Sad for you...I hope it works
out! Let us know how it turns out tomorrow!
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post #29 of 34
8/5/11 at 10:17pm
Good luck crumbles...that will be me next Friday night! lol...my kitchen is clean and I'm going to bed!
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post #30 of 34
8/5/11 at 10:21pm
Making my son and daughter-in-law's 1st Anniversary Cake. Instead of people saving their top tier, I make a FRESH cake. Fortunately, they don't care about the fondant daisies or the cake covered in fondant, they just want the deep, dark chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream.

Trying to plan out wedding cake for the 20th since next Friday my 17 year-old has the first stage surgery for reversal of his ileostomy. As soon as he gets released, the wedding cake will be due. Fortunately, I have help and will get done what I can next week. Just hoping I can match Alfred Angelo's Marine Blue color adequately in fondant!
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It's not about your mood, but about your mind-set. (Beth Moore)
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