Hi!!

when i saw this video i was amazed, thaugh to share with you gyus

maybe you know about this, but i am an amateur, and this is new to me

do you think he uses BC or whipped cream ? do you know what this technique is called?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8g_Ari-YeiM

Its basically using a turntable like a potters wheel, using the same techniques you would with clay - from memory I don't think there is cake under that - its just a blob of ??  buttercream/cream
 

i am disappointed !!  no cake??!!

Well, not certain - doesn't mean YOU couldn't do it on a cake - but I think this video is more to show what 'might' be possible - the bit where it goes into hemisphere is where I think you see it isn't really cake

This might be good for people who DO have pottery experience but for somebody just starting out with cakes I'd say there were heaps easier ways to do it - this is NOT as easy as it looks..... speaking from somebody who has had a crack at pottery on a wheel  LOL
 

Pretty cool stuff. I wish I could work that fast, I'd be cranking out cakes lol.
 

They actually start with frozen cream.  I don't think there's cake anywhere near it.

Finally found it - - it's called quenary and there are some amazing videos on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=rW-M_5TkwfY

I just wish I could make a turntable spin that fast and evenly...

ASeems to me you could get an old turntable and turn it into something similar...

Saw that video some time ago...amazing!

Let me be a witness right now....this CANNOT BE DONE with a Wilton turntable and butterceam! I found hardened blobs of icing under my top cabinets, between the mini-blind slats & on top of my fridge for weeks after I tried it! Thought my poor dog had a tumor there for a minute, but he finally licked it all off.

What makes you think there is no cake under the icing? I think there could be like a 6" x 2" round with a bucket load of icing on the top and sides, which is them removed strategically using this technique.

One of my turntables can spin this fast, but I think I'd need a third hand to spin it while trying to co-ordinate all the other stuff, LOL!

Evoir, if you don't mind sharing, what company turntable do u have?

Thanks!

Me too, Remnant! (wish I could work a cake like that AND about the Wilton disappointment)

Although lightyears away from proficiency still, I caught the decorating bug in Sep 2009. I rushed out to buy all the Wilton supplies & pans I thought I would need for my new hobby, thinking they were top-of-the-line products...they are now in boxes waiting for me to sell at a garage sale.

I have since replaced most of my tools and pans with the good stuff :) although I still get some good use from a few of the Wilton gadgets.

I still use the cheapo turntable though because the last few times I tried to order a good one online, 2 different sites were out of stock and I'm not lucky enough to find one locally.

I think we should get foot pedals installed on our turntables like the old fashioned pedal sewing machines.

Third hand growing as Evoir opined also good perhaps more difficult but could be used for many other things as well.

AWOW now that's art!

Yes he did, Superstar...until he got diarrhea from the sugar overload.

He apparently didn't  realize he was the victim of a drive-by frosting incident until it hardened. He's a coward and runs for cover whenever there's cursing in the kitchen. The blob of icing landed near his rear, just kinda out of immediate tongue reach. I watched him in a neck-stretching licking frenzy the next day and had to investigate.

He looks like he's wearing a bad weave anyway, with hair sticking up all over the place so I had to feel around to see WTH he was so intent on dislodging. There it was, but all sticky from dog spit. He was devastated when I removed the remains of 'the tumor'...sniffed around the floor for 2 days trying to find a sugar fix.

So that you can get a better mental image...here's Farley (didn't change the date on my camera...this was taken about 6 months ago)

Farley is so cute & thank you for the picture, this is still one of my favorite stories!

Re: my turntable brand...it doesn't have a brand name on it, but its cast aluminium and it weighs a fair bit. I absolutely love it.

You can buy a similar sort of thing from Hobby/Craft shops, in small and large sizes. The best thing is that they stay put. Not like that Wilton $#@^&%*($&%.

NB...my disdain for Wilton relates to a particular incident with a wedding cake and the failure of the Wilton tilting turntable.

AAccording to the website of the school it's done in clay. They have photos of some of the other cakes and its obvious that there's no actual cake under all the 'frosting', some of them are filled like baskets with fruit, some with a colored gelatin.

sooo its final

no cake under this blob of cream  

and dont try to do this at home

but it still fun to watch

Sounds like it's worth buying a dog and a Wilton's turntable just for the fun!
 

This may be late in the conversation but I got my turn table from Ikea... just the $6 lazy susan it is sturdy and all wood... it has held everything I have but on it from cakes to stuops to tiffles... it was a well spent $6.

They sell motorized turntables (variable speed) to bakeries.  Cost an arm and a leg, but then you can decorate fast with both hands. 

Superstar, that was -K8memphis volunteering her dog. I just want a place to send that damned turntable!

Farely won't get in the box anyway...not even for buttercream 

Maybe I'll try ganache as bait. I think he'll like it there in Hawaii with you!