Cake Decorating Forum

I've had a massive problem with my cakes turning out fluffy and perfect on the top half and incredibly dense and heavy at the bottom. This seems to happen with EVERY attempt at one Italian Creme Cake ...

I wonder the same thing myself! I've decorated cakes for a long time, and as much as I continually impress myself with my patience during cake disasters or even just cakes I'm not 100% happy with... I ...

Awesome, awesome job! I just did my first castle cake as well, and it was a disaster! I have SUCH newfound respect.

Bump! Just made 7 or so heads that looks way too manly, or too soft, or just wrong... losing my mind! Crying or Very sad

Any advice would be so appreciated!

So, my latest cake order is a Disney princess cake... I got roped into doing some 3-d figures of a couple of princesses for peanuts. I'm not having issue with anything but those darned faces! I'm dead ...

I just turned 19. Smile

I've only been decorating about a year, but I absolutely love it, and I'll be doing a pastry course at culinary school early next year!

Thanks, you guys! After the first mention of "overbeating" I slammed my head into the desk for not figuring it out myself, and went to try my luck again. Rolling Eyes

I never went higher than speed 4, but ...

I always make a basic Italian Creme cake for my "vanilla" or "plain" cake orders, and it's been a big success. Early on it used to have sort of a 50/50 chance of being gooey and having dark spots, but ...

You guys are great! Thank you so much. I'm taking a bit from everyone's ideas and still working on exactly what I want to do.

I wanted it to be somewhat of a lighter thing, maybe something fruity, ...

I'm going to Ireland for my boyfriend's birthday to visit him, and since I don't want to hijack his kitchen and possibly not have the things I need to make him a birthday cake, I thought I'd bring him ...

I use it in my buttercream along with vanilla. The right amount of creme bouqet with the right amount of salt seems to COMPLETELY cancel out any extra sweetness, and it takes away the excessive richne ...

Here's a great strawberry cake I figured out when someone asked me for the same thing and I had no idea!

Take your favorite plain or vanilla cake recipe. Use one you know works. (I use a basic pine ...

I just got a great book simply called Great Cakes. It's mostly just recipes, but the entire first bits of the book are in depth explanations of the difference between types of cake, the scientific bea ...

They'll definitely stick-- you just need to do it BEFORE it crusts. It sounds, though, like you might be doing a lot of sticking and it might be crusted over by the time you get one part done. In that ...

Shimmer dust is basically only good for the wet-and-sprinkle method... figured that out the hard way! I bought it thinking it was the same as luster dust when I started out, and made the mistake of tr ...