Anyone in here decorate cakes?

[Disneynutbsv]

Keep posting Chelle...just random things and then you can post a pic

 

[Scambone]

Ah finally the batteries are juiced up! okay so my brothers first and favorite show is La Nouba so I took the Green Bird (picture below)

and put her on a cake!

For me not knowing how to draw I think I did a pretty good job.

 

[Chelle1971]

Ah finally the batteries are juiced up! okay so my brothers first and favorite show is La Nouba so I took the Green Bird (picture below)




That is neat... I hadn't thought of drawing on a cake...

 

[Chelle1971]

Keep posting Chelle...just random things and then you can post a pic

I am ... LOL I am at work also though I have already decide that join this was probably a bad idea... I think I am only a couple of post away... i am sure I will meet it by tomorrow afternoon.

 

[Scambone]

fondant seems scary! Painting on the cake is fun until you forget what you're doing and you lay your arm in it. I went through a lot of frosting to patch up the left bottom corner

 

[LJC1861]

Fondant really isn't scary at all....it is like working in clay. I find frosting a cake extremely smooth much harder. I am also not too good with a piping bag and trying to do lettering on a cake. I practice a lot, and it is getting better.

Fondant creates an extremely smooth surface and can be colored, molded, shaped into fun shapes and even painted on.

I'll be doing a van cake in a few weeks and will post pictures when it is done.

Linda

 

[Chelle1971]

I just keep hearing that it doesn't taste real good and that it is diffuclut to work with..... By the way this is post 10. I will try to add my link now. YEAH!!!

 

[Chelle1971]

Here are some of my cakes.. these are the only ones I have on this computer....

http://photobucket.com/chelle71_cakes

 

[LJC1861]

The Wilton stuff doesn't taste very good. I am going to try both fondant and a material called Choco-pan ( fondant made from white chocolate) from a company called Satin-Ice for my next cake. I have heard that it tastes better than the Wilton fondant.

Using fondant is like working with clay. It rolls out nicely and can be cut easily with scissors or a pizza cutter. Covering a cake with it makes it look so pretty! Getting it big enough to cover your cake in one piece takes a bit of measuring and practice, but is fun. I enjoy creating little accent pieces like simple rolled roses for my cakes. I am going to get even more creative with this next cake as I am doing a replica of a 1970's van.....lots of small colored pieces to attach and realistic looking wheels to make!!!

Linda

 

[Chelle1971]

I might have to try attempt it then.... I have seen the flowers you can make.... that might be less headache than dealing twith th eicing for my roses.

 

[MosMom]

I've been finding that even when I use high quality fondant, people still peel it off. I think it is a texture issue more than a taste issue. They don't like that chewy texture with a soft cake. It makes a beautiful cake but I've come to accept people will peel it off so I make sure to tort and put plenty of in the middle since too much on the outside tends to cause fondant to slip.

 

[MosMom]

Nice cakes Chelle! You do a nice job. I like the military cakes and the Tinkerbell especially. Very cute!

 

[Chelle1971]

Duly noted ... I research fully before trying.

I've been finding that even when I use high quality fondant, people still peel it off. I think it is a texture issue more than a taste issue. They don't like that chewy texture with a soft cake. It makes a beautiful cake but I've come to accept people will peel it off so I make sure to tort and put plenty of in the middle since too much on the outside tends to cause fondant to slip.

 

[Chelle1971]

Thanks.... The cake I really want to get on here is my Duaghter first birthday cake. It was the first cake I ever did.... it took seven cakes mixes and and 14 hours of decorate time... It was a castle.... I am very anal and I HAVE to have everything symetrical or I can stand it .... I get obessive with it.... I probably shouldn't make them at all but, man it is so rewarding when they are done.... The Flag Cake that I did is a perfect example of my mental issues. My brother was deployed to Iraq when I did all of those cakes and I could hear him in my head "sis make sure those stripe and stars are right!" ... So there are exactly the right number of red and white stripe and stars... I had to represent him properly for his Ball while he was gone.... Details I am sure none of the others noticed... Oh well we all have our quirks... LOL!!!

 

[scarlett873]

The Wilton stuff doesn't taste very good. I am going to try both fondant and a material called Choco-pan ( fondant made from white chocolate) from a company called Satin-Ice for my next cake. I have heard that it tastes better than the Wilton fondant.

Using fondant is like working with clay. It rolls out nicely and can be cut easily with scissors or a pizza cutter. Covering a cake with it makes it look so pretty! Getting it big enough to cover your cake in one piece takes a bit of measuring and practice, but is fun. I enjoy creating little accent pieces like simple rolled roses for my cakes. I am going to get even more creative with this next cake as I am doing a replica of a 1970's van.....lots of small colored pieces to attach and realistic looking wheels to make!!!

Linda

Choco-Pan is a separate company from Satin Ice. I happen to know the woman who created choco-pan! She was one of my instructors in the culinary program at my school. It smells like tootsie rolls and it's pretty easy to work with. Goes a loooooooooooooooooong way too! You can roll it pretty thin as compared to Wilton's fondant. I much prefer choco-pan if that part of the cake is to be eaten. If it's just for decor...like flowers or whatever, then i'll use Wilton because it's cheaper!

 

[Disneynutbsv]

Here is my nieces birthday cake! I like everything except for the bear...I hate doing "Star tip" cakes

And my daughter did this cake for my mother in law (my niece was born on her birthday!)

 

[Disneynutbsv]

Here are some of my cakes.. these are the only ones I have on this computer....

http://photobucket.com/chelle71_cakes

Great job Chelle!

I tried to pm you back, but it said you can't receive pm's????

 

[Chelle1971]

I am having all kinds of trouble with this website.... sorry about the pm.... I am sure that I have a setting wrong. I like the cakes... The one the draws my eye every time I log on here is that Minnie cake!! I wish my daughter would pick a Mickey or Minne B-day cake.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

I am having all kinds of trouble with this website.... sorry about the pm.... I am sure that I have a setting wrong. I like the cakes... The one the draws my eye every time I log on here is that Minnie cake!! I wish my daughter would pick a Mickey or Minne B-day cake.

lol, that cake was for nobody in particular,
I just did it as a challenge to see if I could actually do it!
I love working with fondant, its fun and clean and neat.

Buttercream.....I used to love it, but it frustrates me, lol

 

[LindaDe]

I used to decorate lots of cakes ...including many wedding cakes. It's fun to hear the reviews of the cakes you bake but getting there is another story. People ask for everything under the sun to be decorated on their cake and it takes hours just coming up with designs and mixing colors. As for wedding cakes wayyyyy too much stress...can you imagine delivering a cake and it falls...no way to fix in the short time you have for delivery and then there is the issue of you can't please everyone especially some brides. I haven't baked a decorated cake in a bunch of years, like doing it before I get started but then midway through the cake I think "why am I doing this". Now if I need a nice decorated cake I buy it.