ugggh. it's driving me crazy, and i am beating myself up over it. I did a wedding cake for this past weekend and on the bottom tier I did not line up the top of the stencil with the top of the cake, i did it from the bottom up on my first go around. I immediately saw my mistake, but with black royal, there was no fixing it. I was planning on putting that section at the back of the cake, but then my helping husband who was holding the stencil, pushed a bit too hard on the top and put a thumb dent in the top of the cake where the stencil was correct. So there goes that idea. I was struggling to find the best 'side' to put face forward. The top i got the orientation right, but then again there was a slight smear on one section. Thankfully that was able to be filled in with a paintbrush and put at the back. It wasn't a disaster in the rear at all, but the more i look at the photo, the more it just makes me cringe. i'm kicking myself for not trying out this particular stencil more throughly on a dummy before flying with it.
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I guess we are our own worst critics! I wish the stenciling was done the way it is not the top tier with the 1/4 inch band around the top of the cake. On the bottom of the cake, I lined the stencil up with the bottom (seen on the left side of the cake, and then on the top on the right side. The seam for that side was somewhere in the middle front of the cake (so not ideal!). The way i got the top border and the stencil straight down to the bottom of the cake was to put the cake on a smaller stand (the top tier on a shortening can, the bottom 10" tier on a 10lb satin ice bucket) so that the stencil can hang down off the bottom of the cake. The bride was adamant about not having a border between tiers, so I did a swipe with some buttercream and smoothed it with my finger to close any gaps left from between the SPS plates.
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First your amazing SMBC tutorial, and your encouragement and tips on scratch baking (which i am almost completely converted to)-- I need to start sending you royalties! You rock!
