Cake Decorating Forum

Keep pluggin away. 2 banks turned me down before a third one said yes. And during the process, those turn-downs were a GOOD thing .... saved me tens of thousands of dollars!

Keep going! Thumbs Up!

I spent over a year getting by on 4 hours sleep a night ... full time job, plus spending 4+ hours a day baking 300 cookies .... every day .... in a home oven! Plus I was doing 2-4 sampling appts a we ...

Sidetracking a little from your orig question, but where in Indiana are you? We have a good ICES group. You can get membership info at Ms. B's Sweet Supply .... Marsha who owns the store can help y ...

I'd say the longer they can stay in the freezer, the easier they are to work with! Good tip about watching for funky flavors, though!

When I moved from home oven to comm'l oven, I threw my first three cakes in the trash and was almost in tears thinking about how much money I had just spent on this oven and I can't bake in it! Crying or Very sad

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I lost a check between the building and my van! It was after a wedding, bride gives me a check for the balance ... I put it in my pocket. I drive back to the shop and the check is gone.

On the go ...

I usually manage to find out AFTER the show that it was on and have to catch it on a re-run, so I was very lucky to catch this tonight. Yeah, I felt bad for the lady who had to run out and buy sheet ...

If you do, you might consider using 6 feet (or 7 or 8?) instead of 4 .... 2 in the middle to help prevent middle-cake-sagging.

Everything good in this world is turned into a money making event, and then the standards get lower and lower.
Like sweetkisscakes said ... lowering the bar so everyone can pass it. But to be fair ...

Kory, if you hit the "quote" button on your "test" post, what I see between the quotes is "test test test". Shocked

Just yesterday I had a quickie wedding where the topper didn't make it to me on time... sure enough I get there and its the (tacky) 6" wide bride dragging the groom... to go on top of the 4" wide cake ...

Melvira that bad boy!!
http://cakecentral.com/article83-Quick--Easy-Smooth-Icing-Using-a-Roller-Melvira-Method.html

Cake on turntable .... roller against cake ... give turntable a big spin .... Bo ...

Customer than e-mails her at 11:48pm, when the party is the next morning, 45 min. away..........to tell her the icing is running and she better rectify it immediately.

Do you really think she sho ...

BTW I don't change consistency of my icing from one application to another I make medium stiff consistency and use it for everything. icing, writing, borders, roses, it is much less time consuming.
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I am sure about 300 cake decorators will get a call this week saying, " I saw this cake from Kuwait and would like to have it for my mother's birthday party.....

my sister just saw the one with the ...