Hi all, I have just started decorating cakes and my FIRST completed cake ie from baking to final decorating goes to one of my best friends 30th tonight. I need a few pointers tho for next tome which I know you will be able to help me out with.
1. I was trying to do a fancy heel shoe cake but it broke, I was using my favourite fondant and gum tragncanth but im not sure how much I should have put in. I thought i put in enough but cakies how much per lb or would cmc worked better..the shop had ran out of that so I had to get the other stuff.
2. I used bakel alpine white choc mud cake, it is a really beautiful eating cake but i think my cooking tinme was off, the cake was 9 x 13 inches a perfect shoe box size and i think it was in for a total of 2 hours, my gut feeling was that it was possibly 10 mins too long. the sides went a bit darker than i liked but i did cut down the cake slightly so no biggy, cake still tasted wonderful.
Any assistance would be great appreciated. I have tried my own receipes to make the cake just yet that will be the nect challange to find a receipe that i love.
cheers
Allie
1. I was trying to do a fancy heel shoe cake but it broke, I was using my favourite fondant and gum tragncanth but im not sure how much I should have put in. I thought i put in enough but cakies how much per lb or would cmc worked better..the shop had ran out of that so I had to get the other stuff.
2. I used bakel alpine white choc mud cake, it is a really beautiful eating cake but i think my cooking tinme was off, the cake was 9 x 13 inches a perfect shoe box size and i think it was in for a total of 2 hours, my gut feeling was that it was possibly 10 mins too long. the sides went a bit darker than i liked but i did cut down the cake slightly so no biggy, cake still tasted wonderful.
Any assistance would be great appreciated. I have tried my own receipes to make the cake just yet that will be the nect challange to find a receipe that i love.
cheers
Allie
