Friday Night Cake Club For 7/18/14
Decorating By catlharper Updated 24 Jul 2014 , 8:11pm by -K8memphis
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Everything except the cars are edible. The cars are attached with orange royal icing and I'm praying it stays solid for the car ride over!
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@ catlharper, this HotWheels cake is fantastic. My nephew will be crazy if I'm able to do something like that for him. His birthday is in January and he already ask me for an other race car cake! I guess the track is made out of gumpaste and was put to dry on a dummy cake?
Marian...that pig cake is TOO cute! I'm going to make one for my mom this year for her birthday. Such a clever concept and I've seen all types of styles of it and they all make me giggle!
Cazza...how sweet of you to help out the Mom to be! Sorry to hear the wings drooped...but the baby is still SO sweet! Love the teddy's...my favorite is the lower left one...SO cute! How scary and fun to be a demonstrator! I've never tried the wax paper transfer thing before. I was tempted with the hot wheels cake but then decided not to tempt copyright laws...even for a donated cake. If you have a video link can you share it??
James, hope to see your cake this week. Today is the day right? Of the moon landing I mean?
Just a note to everyone! FNCC will be THURSDAY this upcoming week...the 31st. I will be headed out of town up to Napa/Sonoma to work and have no idea what my reception will be. So I'll start the group up on Thursday at 7:30PST and will check in as I can.
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@ catlharper, this HotWheels cake is fantastic. My nephew will be crazy if I'm able to do something like that for him. His birthday is in January and he already ask me for an other race car cake! I guess the track is made out of gumpaste and was put to dry on a dummy cake?
Thanks Laetia!
You can find out how to make it on the cake blog I write: http://catscakesblog.blogspot.com/
If you have any questions please do feel free to PM me here! And the track is fondant with tylose!
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AThanks for the link, it should be very helpful. I have a few projects coming in the next month, but I'll try it for sure in the fall. I'll PM you for tricks and hint at this moment if I need it , thanks again for offering it!
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Anyway I turned up to work with this baby topper and cupcake toppers for her a couple of days later and told her to have her mother make a cake and put it on top. She was over the moon as she had decided that she really couldn't afford even what the cheaper ladies charge.
Cazza1, even making her some toppers was still way over her budget, and very thoughtful for you to do.
They are delightful and very charming.
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All Thank you teacher / childminder cakes as it's the last week of term here.
scrumptious fruit cupcakes, everything is the same theme and each is distinctly different, You have a very creative talent. Your swirls are perfections, and the chalkboard looks so real.
A[CENTER]Happy Apollo Day.[/CENTER]
[CENTER][url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/64159238@N03/14703040212/][/url] [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/64159238@N03/14703040212/]Apollo Day 2014.jpg[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/64159238@N03/]Tracker-Backer[/url], on Flickr[/CENTER]
[CENTER]HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH[/CENTER] [CENTER]FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON[/CENTER] [CENTER]JULY 1969 A.D.[/CENTER] [CENTER]WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND[/CENTER]
This time, the edible print ripped and wrinkled a bit, right between the caption and the inset of the ladder-leg plaque. I got it a bit crooked, to boot, but the way it was fighting me, I consider myself lucky I was able to get it in place with as little visible damage as there was. On the plus side, i actually had time to pipe a star border around the frosted portion of the cake, even if I did get just a bit wild on the right.
Gosh I remember sitting in front of the black and white tv with a neighbor, drinking milk and eating peanut butter and honey sandwiches........ 3 feet away from the tv and watching. Thanks for the memories James.
ps: the ripped paper isn't visible in the photo.
Ha, we are showing our age. I got to have the afternoon off school, so that I could go home and watch it on the T.V. SOOOOO exciting. My Dad announced a few weeks later that he could see the moon buggy and pointed it out to us. None of us wanted to admit that we couldn't see it so we all said that we could. No wonder the moon buggy always gave him a few laughs and he pointed it out every time there was a full moon.
Cat I learned the wax paper transfer method from a Craftsy Class.
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How can you ever eat a Kit Kat bar and not smile thinking about this cake! It is one of my all time favorites. super cute.
Thank you. I think about this cake every time I see a Kit Kat bar and never thought I would be making one. It was super easy and my mom loved it. She had a heart valve replaced with a pig valve in March so it was perfect.
Cazza I love your toppers and your friend was indeed lucky. I may have to try and make them for my nieces baby shower.
James love the Apollo cake. I too remember watching the landing in front of the old black and white tv.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
AI was able to get it to line up reasonably well, with a small fragment stuck to my finger being about all that didn't make it onto the cake. I think the wrinkling was the result of having just about every available finger working to get it into place.
I vividly remember being disappointed with the lunar surface TV being black and white (the camera aboard the CM was color, and there is color footage, whether from Apollo 11 or from another Saturn V flight, of the first stage, and the interstage ring, being jettisoned prior to second stage ignition, seen from the bottom of the second stage LOX tank, and yet the LM TV was black and white), and so grainy and contrasty as to make it hard to tell what you were looking at. And I remember the Apollo 12 lunar surface TV lasted only seconds before the camera was burned out by being pointed directly at the sun. And I remember finally seeing decent TV from Apollo 14 through 17.
And I just spent the past hour and a half watching Bill Gibson and Barry Coe's Footprints on the Moon (not to be confused with an Italian horror film of the same title, made some years later!), the only contemporary, theatrical-release documentary of the mission.
Oh, and the cake is spice (DH), with maple-cinnamon BC. This morning, when I finally had time to bake it (before church), I rather abruptly found myself with exactly half the Canola oil the box instructions call for. I added butter to fill out the volume, and hoped for the best. It looked right, and the toothpick came out clean, if anything, a minute or so sooner than normal.
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[CENTER]Happy Apollo Day.[/CENTER]
[CENTER][url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/64159238@N03/14703040212/][/url] [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/64159238@N03/14703040212/]Apollo Day 2014.jpg[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/64159238@N03/]Tracker-Backer[/url], on Flickr[/CENTER]
[CENTER]HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH[/CENTER] [CENTER]FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON[/CENTER] [CENTER]JULY 1969 A.D.[/CENTER] [CENTER]WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND[/CENTER]
This time, the edible print ripped and wrinkled a bit, right between the caption and the inset of the ladder-leg plaque. I got it a bit crooked, to boot, but the way it was fighting me, I consider myself lucky I was able to get it in place with as little visible damage as there was. On the plus side, i actually had time to pipe a star border around the frosted portion of the cake, even if I did get just a bit wild on the right.
Great job!
This time, the edible print ripped and wrinkled a bit, right between the caption and the inset of the ladder-leg plaque. I got it a bit crooked, to boot, but the way it was fighting me, I consider myself lucky I was able to get it in place with as little visible damage as there was. On the plus side, i actually had time to pipe a star border around the frosted portion of the cake, even if I did get just a bit wild on the right.
nice clean work, james, even with the 'wild' piping which btw good moon landing color -- looks very appetizing from a cake standpoint -- actually crunching down on moon rock idk ;) -- great nostalgic occasion to celebrate -- you have made an art form out of being able to supply uniced cake servings, efficiently and attractively too-- good stuff!
James, Love the cake! I, oddly enough, don't remember the landing. We were just discussing that I remember the civil rights footage but not the landing! As for your cake...I simply love the image that you chose! And you can't see the ripped part easily in the photo...had to look at it based on your description. I hardly ever work with transfers for this reason. I, basically, only do so when I really have to use it for something copyrighted that I can't make myself. But good job dealing with such a large one!
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The rips in the edible print are much more visible on the actual cake (or the picture at full resolution; as a matter of policy, I never send camera-resolution images anywhere other than my color laser printer or one of the digital print carrels at the local camera shop). If I were actually doing this professionally, I would undoubtedly have a sufficient assortment of food colorings to where I could paint over the rips, and if I were doing it for company, or for my office, or for the Printing Museum, I'd undoubtedly GO OUT AND GET whatever food colorings I needed to camouflage the rips.
Thankfully, this is a family cake.
Incidentally, I'd appreciate some tips for keeping this from happening again. I don't know what edible printing media the cake supply shop is using (I know my former cake supply, now out of business, used DecoPac madia, inks, and turn-key system; this is definitely not the same); all I know is that chilling this stuff doesn't make it stiff-as-a-board, the way it does the DecoPac media; in fact, it doesn't appear to have any noticeable effect on it, other than to make it cold.
Thankfully, this will probably be the last time I won't have a back-up image for a while, probably several years.
i don't work a lot with edible images but all i can think of is to trim off 1/4 or 1/8 of an inch in advance so you have enough of the various colors to fix anything-- clip the corners -- something like that --
hey did you put that picture together? print a color strip like you do the uniced portion of your cakes -- just on one side, narrower though -- so you have enough of the right colors on the first go 'round w/o having to print a whole 'nuther one --
take all that money you save and buy a cake board and a box!!! lol
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