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Message |
| Topic: Cookie question |
redpanda
Replies: 5
Views: 94
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 Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:56 pm Subject: Cookie question |
| I use just standard RI to ice cookies, and it is always firm enough to stack but never hard or crunchy. I think that the butter or moisture in the cookies must keep it from hardening too much. The onl ... |
| Topic: Does anyone else... |
redpanda
Replies: 3
Views: 150
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Forum: General
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:58 pm Subject: Does anyone else... |
I think it stabilizes the icing, particularly in hot or humid weather. I know that my icing tends to slide off the cake in hot weather if I don't use the meringue powder.
It is (if I remember corre ... |
| Topic: Dumb question- can you make chocolate frosting blue? |
redpanda
Replies: 14
Views: 321
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Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:34 pm Subject: Dumb question- can you make chocolate frosting blue? |
| I think that the amount of blue food coloring necessary to turn chocolate cake batter blue would probably have some undesirable after-effects. I'm trying to be delicate here...the food coloring isn't ... |
| Topic: So many bubbles in my Antonia74 icing? |
redpanda
Replies: 5
Views: 113
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Forum: Cookies!
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:18 pm Subject: So many bubbles in my Antonia74 icing? |
| Letting the icing sit, covered, for about 15-20 minutes should help. I use a different royal icing recipe, but I have noticed that two things help to reduce the number of bubbles forming--slow speed f ... |
| Topic: I think I may have cracked the Sugarveil recipe......Maybe |
redpanda
Replies: 82
Views: 10640
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Forum: Recipe Tips & Ideas
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:56 pm Subject: I think I may have cracked the Sugarveil recipe......Maybe |
I can not see page 5 of this forum, I would like to know what happen... and about the Michaels gun, can any one help?
thanks 
Since your post appeared on page 4, I think maybe there isn't a pa ... |
| Topic: just curious- laws about returning baked goods |
redpanda
Replies: 14
Views: 457
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:45 pm Subject: just curious- laws about returning baked goods |
| I have a question for those of you who expect to get back the WHOLE cake in order to consider a refund. Does that mean that the customer is expected to piece the cake back together, since they likey s ... |
| Topic: just curious- laws about returning baked goods |
redpanda
Replies: 14
Views: 457
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Forum: Cake Decorating Business
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:21 am Subject: just curious- laws about returning baked goods |
| I think if you plan to do something like this, you need to have a very clearly worded explanation in your contract that you will not give a refund, except in the case of X, Y, or Z. If you will only g ... |
| Topic: 10.03.08 Friday Night Cake Club |
redpanda
Replies: 45
Views: 712
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Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:19 pm Subject: 10.03.08 Friday Night Cake Club |
I just finished making 106 "cast" cookies for my son's play, which will be opening tomorrow. The cookies are in the shape of a foot in a cast.
I guess you could say it is a bad pun--cast cookies fo ... |
| Topic: OMG I am SOOOOO Frustrated with my COLORS!!! PLEASE HELP!!! |
redpanda
Replies: 7
Views: 156
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Forum: Cake Decorating
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:46 pm Subject: OMG I am SOOOOO Frustrated with my COLORS!!! PLEASE HELP!!! |
| What do you mean by "running"? Are you seeing drips of color coming out of the icing or something? |
| Topic: Help! Need rec on a better cookie sheet - taking too long! |
redpanda
Replies: 18
Views: 309
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Forum: Cookies!
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:52 am Subject: Help! Need rec on a better cookie sheet - taking too long! |
| I have a convection oven, too, and it took 8 minutes to bake a batch of 2" cookies last night--on the large AirBake sheets. Bigger cookies might take a couple of minutes more, and my really BIG cookie ... |
| Topic: How thick are your NFSC? |
redpanda
Replies: 16
Views: 371
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Forum: Cookies!
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:25 am Subject: How thick are your NFSC? |
| I make the half recipe frequently, and it's fine. |
| Topic: How thick are your NFSC? |
redpanda
Replies: 16
Views: 371
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Forum: Cookies!
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:40 pm Subject: How thick are your NFSC? |
| I made some tonight, using 1/4" dowels. They are a good thickness for cookies that won't have sticks in them. When making cookie bouquets, I make them more like 3/8". |
| Topic: Is there any tutorials on using choc transfers |
redpanda
Replies: 5
Views: 61
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Forum: How Do I?
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:52 pm Subject: Is there any tutorials on using choc transfers |
I did mine a week ahead, and just kept it in a cool place (not in the fridge). I think you could even do it a couple of weeks ahead.
One piece of advice I have for you is to make more than one. Th ... |
| Topic: Is there any tutorials on using choc transfers |
redpanda
Replies: 5
Views: 61
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Forum: How Do I?
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:13 am Subject: Is there any tutorials on using choc transfers |
| Start with small, simple ones with just a couple of colors, and I'm sure you'll do fine. The martial arts studio logo in my gallery was my first chocolate transfer. It wasn't perfect, but it definitel ... |
| Topic: Is there any tutorials on using choc transfers |
redpanda
Replies: 5
Views: 61
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Forum: How Do I?
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:28 pm Subject: Is there any tutorials on using choc transfers |
Try here:
http://us.1.p4.geocities.com/heathers_cakes2000/chocolatedemo.html?1109787013625 |
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