Cake Decorating Forum

There's a great tutorial on cakeboss.com

http://www.cakeboss.com/CastleTutorial.aspx

Well I was also grew up exclusively on margarine. Never had butter until I was old enough to buy it myself. I use butter in almost all my cooking and baking now, but I've honeslty never done a testing ...

I would start planning myself a last-minute celebration right now. can you make dinner reservations somewhere for Monday? Or at least just pick out a great restaurant to go to? Send out an email to al ...

I just want to second the importance of checking with the officials in your own state. I'm amazed at how much the regulations vary, but I SC, I've always found the people in charge at DHEC to be very ...

Hi Shelby from South Carolina. My niece is 11 and she is not allowed to have a myspace account either. She lives on the webkinz Website instead. You should bake us something and post the picture!

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Another answer to the "what is unlicensed" question. It definitely varies depending on where you live. In SC, you can bake for family and friends and even accept money from them, but you can't do anyt ...

Very cute. Love the colors. I agree with some of the other things that were said. The "KA" jumped out at me too, and I would do lower case to make Cakery easier to read.

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I do keep my house pretty warm. I live in SC, so I have a much bigger problem trying to keep the kitchen cool in the summer The kitchen always seems to stay hotter that the rest of the house.

I'm about as far from an expert as it gets, but I have used toba's glaze a few times and I've started heating the milk in the microwave to get it hot - I think it helps the sugar dissolve better. Usua ...

Too cute - I love the colors. Can you do some fondant cutouts? Polka dots, flowers, stars...anything like that. You could do pink ones on the purple tier and purple ones on the pink tier.

Indydebi - I would TOTALLY watch you on the Food Network passing along all of your words of wisdom!

I've only done it in the Wilton Class, but here's some info from their website:

http://www.wilton.com/decorating/basic/brush.cfm

I have a good friend who is a wedding planner, and I think different ones work different ways. My friend charges the couple a flat fee depending on how involved they want her to be. She will recommend ...

Your post made me think of an Alton Brown episode where he was icing a cake and put it on an old record player turntable. If you have one lying around it might be worth a try. Or a potters wheel - but ...

Debi - You are so right! There is a wonderful, high-end restaurant where I live which uses a lot of local ingredients. Well, I went to a Sysco show one day and the next day get a newsletter from this ...