169 days ago
by Kirstie's cakes |
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Well not had a productive day which is so frustrating :-( there are just not enough hours in the day. Managed to do some cakey research on my phone though :-)I’ve seen a fab recipe for elf biscuits on the pink whisk website and I have everything in already to make them, so that’s my AM plan make them for the school Xmas fair :-)I also need to ice my cake, don’t know how that will turn out I’ve never coloured icing before :-/ I can have a practice and if all else fails ...
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169 days ago
by Kirstie's cakes |
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Marshmallow icing fondant
Make day before going to use
3 tablespoon measure waterPastry scrapperSifterRubber spatula1/2 cup Trex2lb icing sugar16oz marshmallow
Put marshmallows in bowl and add 3 tablespoons of water. Put in microwave for 1 minute 30 seconds. Add softened Trex to mixer along with 2lb sifted icing sugar. Stir melted marshmallows and add into mixer. Using dough hook begin mixing and colour or flavour now as well. Once mixed scrap onto icing sugared side making sure to g...
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170 days ago
by Kirstie's cakes |
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Well what a productive day :-) I’ve managed to get my 4 tier baked 2 vanilla Madeiras a 2 chocolate Madeiras and they all turned out fab. The best was yet to come. For the cake idea I have in mind I needed a light weight cake as a topper but the while surfing Facebook a fab site Shereen’s cakes & bakes put a post up about having used something called RKT for modelling some large penguins on a cake. Not having a clue what this was I started googling and found out it was butter ...
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170 days ago
by Kirstie's cakes |
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Now I’ve already told you I’ve become a shopaholic at thecakedecoratingcompany and this was another buy. A dinky doodle pink airbrush and colours :-)It arrived and it was like Xmas I just wanted to use it but then I read I needed cleaning liquid for it :-( I didn’t want to mess it up so I waited. The time came when I had chance to use it. I had decided to test my Wilton giant cupcake mould with my 6 year old. I covered the base of the cake in white icing and set to work spr...
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170 days ago
by Kirstie's cakes |
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I had started gathering all my cake essentials and came across a brilliant web site www.thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk and OMG I must be a rated customer now :-) its like toysrus for cake lovers. The product I took to straight away was the sugarveil it just looked fab and how right I was. While I eagerly waited for it to arrive I research the Internet for how to do it, what goes wrong which was good as the first time I used it, it turned out perfect. I now make sugarveil everyday. The start u...
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170 days ago
by Kirstie's cakes |
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Hi and if your reading this or looking at my cakes you will realise I’m not a pro and just starting out. So far I’m loving baking and creating cakes. The only problem I’m having at the moment is too many ideas lol I just want to make everything. I get an idea in my head of how I want it to look then put pencil to is per to design it and figure out what to use. So far it’s been hard everything doesn’t pan out smoothly but I see it as learning as I go along. I have...
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170 days ago
by Sophisticated |
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As a young cake decorator with a very young career in the industry (less than a year), I was fortunate enough to be trusted to make a wedding cake for 130 guests. At first I was pretty excited that the bride would even consider me for the job; then as the days got closer, I started freaking out badly. I started asking myself what made me think I was able to pull this together, what was I thinking? Then a month months before the big day, the anxiety, and the nightmares started; but I kept tell...
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170 days ago
by CakeCreationsbyME |
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I am finding many uses for the star shape cookie cutters.
Here is a fast and simple way to make a Poinsettia cupcake topper.
Tools you will need plus fondant with either Tylose Powder or gumpaste.
Cut out your 3 stars using 3 different sizes. Use a leaf impression mat to create the leaf look for the flower stem then pinch each end of the star to make it pointy.
Put your stars together, largest on the bottom working your way to the top with the smallest. Using your fondan...
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171 days ago
by CakeCreationsbyME |
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This is my first time posting a tutorial so I will do my best to explain the steps along with the pictures.
I used the Wilton Wreath cookie cutter that comes in their Holiday 40 pc Collection. I used the large size one.
Tools you will need
Roll out your fondant (I added a small amount of Tylose Powder instead of gumpaste to the fondant), place your wreath cookie cutter on it then the circle in the middle to make sure it is centered before cutting. Once you have it placed correc...
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172 days ago
by costumeczar |
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I did a video showing how to assemble the large flowers that use a center and extra petals around it. Since I have another one to make this weekend I thought I’d share the link.
This style of cake looks best when the tiers are taller and closer in size to each other, rather than more of a pyramid shape. For example, a 5-7-9-11 will look better than a 5-8-11-14. The taller tiers make it easier to apply the flower petals in a flatter shape and make it look better.
One thing I didn&#...
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