Opening up another session of the FNCC! Who's up? What are you working on? Everyone is welcome to stop in, share your week, any photos you want to share, any questions you might have or help anyone else who has them! Hope to see lots of photos this week!

 

Cat

This week I've been working on two baby shower cakes. This one is a Gender Reveal cake. It's a hatbox and, btw...it's a girl<G> and right now I am the only one who knows! LOL! Well, till tomorrow!

 

How's it been going with everyone else?

 

Cat

 

 

I made this cake for my daughter's 3rd birthday. Modeled after Sofia the First. She loved it. What has everyone else been up to?

AI did some cakes that were donated to a community baby shower and a cake for my cousins daughter [IMG][IMG][IMG][IMG]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/2951862/width/200/height/400[/IMG][/IMG][/IMG][/IMG]

She's so pretty! I'm going to make my first Barbie cake later this year for my granddaughter...any tips?

Very cute! Love the orange and blue!

I'm certainly not posting this weeks effort.  I flooded some bickies with royal icing and then tried some brush embroidery.  I watched some great you tube tutorials but do you think I could get the stupid things to look right.  They were sooooooooooooooooooooooo bad that I could only feed them to hubby.  I couldn't even take them to share at my knitting group.  I am stubborn and it took me to the 6th very poor attempt before I gave up.

I've been off to my local cake decorating group today and chocolate was the theme in the the lead up to Easter.  One of our ladies demonstrated chocolates, chocolate baskets, transfers etc and then we got to play.  I would rather play with tempered chocolate than melts so I just watched and talked.

Sunday Morning here, and just waiting for my student to arrive , we are making roses today. 

We had our Cake club meeting this week too, we also had an Easter theme , with a lovely dem of piping and extension work worked on stiffened netting pieces, done by two of our Life Members, it is wonderful watching these old hands at work . 

 

 

I have to decide what I am doing for a Demonstration in a few weeks , I am leaning towards my Rose people at the moment.  One of the other demonstrators has asked me if she can do my version of the peony so I am thinking that the larger flower theme will sort of tie in.  We were just given a vague Mother's day guideline. I am thinking of dressing my Rose Lady in a cute apron . 

 

Well better go , Happy Icing 

Chelle 

Chelle,

 

What is the Rose Lady exactly? Mother's Day here isn't until May so please do share anything that you make?

 

Cat

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This was my cake for the week, I wanted to give oriental string work a go and this is a lemon cake.

Next weekend I'm going to an Easter brunch at a friends house so there will be a cake for that.

So what did you think about the string work? I did it for one cake and swear I'll never do it again!

Actually I enjoyed it, but turning the cake upside down so many times played havoc with the fondant. I'm going to stick with ganache rather than bc under my fondant next time. But ill definitely be giving it another go.

This is my rose people cake , I did this for a Competition a few years ago. I even had my picture in the paper and a little write up about me with it. 

Kiki, the lady that taught me does amazing string work , then again she does amazing everything.    I was rather fortunate to have been taught by one of the best when I started.  

 

A couple of the ladies in our club have special turntable that you lock your cake into and it flips it for doing stringwork. 

I would have thought that Charleston was big enough for a group.  Maybe you could advertise to see it there are other ladies that are interested and take it from there and start you own group.

I have just googled your population and at over 120,000 people if there is not a group somewhere already then you should have no problem starting one.  I live in a small city of about 30,000 and we have one.  There are only about a dozen of us but we meet once a month to share.

A

We do!! There are ICES meetings & a few other cake clubs. Are you a member of the SC cottage food law FB page?

This is a link to the SC chapter of ICES  http://www.scices.com/

 

cottage food law FB:  https://www.facebook.com/SCCottageFoodLaw?fref=ts

 

Carolina Confectioners:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/CAROLINA.CONFECTIONEERS/

I agree, awesome cakes and I wish we had a cake club round here too. I usually do some piping practice on a plate whenever I have some leftover icing. 

Oh Chelle...the rose lady cake is simply adorable!!! What a great idea!