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Hello! Hello!

Hi, I'm new to this website. I love it! I'm a retired nutritionist. My job for the past 3 years has been getting to know my wonderful 16 year old teen daughter who is active in dance and drama. Yes, we have days with her when life is a challenge, but who doesn't with a teenager! She is emotions and hormones and I'm tired and menopause. I have a wonderful husband who has been so supportive of my cake and baking hobby these 18 years. He loves weddings. My husband and my daughter help me to… Continue

Added by Pamela Brown on March 10, 2010 at 12:40am — 3 Comments

HELLO HELLO!!

HI EVERYONE,
MY NAME IS CYNDI, I HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 22 YRS, WE HAVE 6 CHILDREN AND 6 GRAND CHILDREN. (THIS IS WHERE I GET ALL MY BAKING EXPERIENCE FROM) IAM A JERSEY GIRL THROUGH AND THROUGH WHO LOVES TO BAKE AND DECORATE CAKES WITH A PASSION!!

I JUST FOUND THIS SITE AND I ALREDY LOVE IT!! I HOPE TO LEARN ALOT AND MAKE ALOT OF FRIENDS!!!

Thanks for the great site!! CYNDI (LEHLA IS WHAT THE GRANDKIDS CALL ME)

Added by Cyndi on March 9, 2010 at 8:00pm — 4 Comments

Newbie here....

Hi, I'm Tracy from the UK and I've just found this community through Facebook. I've been decorating for a year now and I'm loving it. Hoping to share some tips and advice on here.

Added by Tracy Hampson on March 9, 2010 at 3:29pm — 1 Comment

new bee

hi im ria and i'm new. i hope i could learn a lots here specially in baking and cakes decorating...

Added by Ria Aure on March 9, 2010 at 1:09pm — 1 Comment

Hello Everyone

Hello Everyone, I just wanted to properly introduce myself so you can know little bit more about me. I am a counselor just not yet licensed (working on it) :) I have been married for 7 years in this June and I have two beautiful girls(5 and 4 years old). Once, I graduated from grad school, my husband and I decided that I would stay at home until both girls would start school and then I would work on starting my counseling career. Well, staying at home made me fall in love with caking. At…

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Added by Erica on March 9, 2010 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Gluten-Free baking for Celiacs (with recipe & frosting to try!)

Gluten-free baking poses it's own unique set of challenges, and once you start baking without wheat based flours you'll notice that each gluten free flour has it's own unique properties. Gluten free flours do not rise as easily or high as wheat flours and you'll often notice an abnormally high number of eggs used in recipes to help resolve that. Also using a small amount of guar or xantham gum in your recipes helps reduce the "crumbling…

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Added by Gonzuela on March 7, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Update on piped gumpaste experiment

Let me begin by saying Patience is a virtue I do not possess.

I began the experiment on Monday of this week. It's now Wednesday. The piped tiaras seemed dry. I began removing them from the parchment slip on which they were piped. The pieces were weakend by me fiddling with the yesterday. So, a piece popped off of a couple of them, and one base area cracked off, taking with it the entire portion above it. I have one complete, uncracked tiara. For what…

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Added by JRW on February 17, 2010 at 12:06pm — 5 Comments

Experiments

The workload is light. So, I've been able to do a little experimenting. This time, it's with piping gumpaste. This experiment began Sunday night.

I placed about a 1/2 cup of gumpaste, pinched off into small pieces, into my mixer bowl. I added about 1/4-1/2 cup of hot water, a little at a time while mixing on low (the small chunks made the mixer clunk about a bit). I covered it with plastic to let in dissolve (hopefully) for several hours. After several hours had gone by, it…

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Added by JRW on February 16, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Most Moist Cake Baking Tip!

I developed this technique over 25 years ago. It was published in Cooking Pleasures Magazine in 2004.

You can use this on any cake scratch or box mix, or doctored box mix, with the exception of Angel Food Cake. The thing that most people don't realize is the the steam that is created during the baking process is what makes a cake moist and retains the flavors of the cake. If you let that steam out by cooling on the countertop you lose moisture and most importantly you lose the…

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Added by Angela Wright Pineda on February 10, 2010 at 5:01pm — 5 Comments

Cake Carving Tips

Cake carving can seem intimidating when you first start cake decorating with one of the biggest challenges being not knowing where to start! My moto is that if you can stack a tiered cake you can pretty much make anything!

It's all a matter of getting your cake tiers to your desired height and then patiently carving and carving and CARVING!!! :-)…

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Added by Gonzuela on February 8, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Beginners Tutorial: Easy No Carving Turtle Cake

Here's a fun and quick cake to try with your kids that involves no cake carving and just simple fondant laying! You can use the same method to make a "ladybug" shaped cake as well.…

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Added by Gonzuela on February 6, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Beginners Level Cake Decorating Instructions: Penguins & Igloos Theme

Here's a fun seasonal cake you can do with your kids and it's quick and easy to do with no experience or fancy tools required!

The cake should only take about 1 hour to finish (excluding baking time) and there's no fondant laying, piping, or cake carving - sounds good to me! Lol. …

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Added by Gonzuela on February 5, 2010 at 8:06pm — No Comments

Tips on creating facial details on bust (or head) cakes...

"Face" cakes are a lot of fun to do but they're challenging and it's always much much easier to sculpt cakes that don't have to resemble someone or something specifically (animals are a great simple way to practice carving). If you're trying to achieve realism even the slightest mistake can make the face look distorted and even a few milimeters difference in the proportion of the eyes or nose, etc, can make a huge difference in the end result.

To simplify the process here's a…

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Added by Gonzuela on February 5, 2010 at 12:44pm — 2 Comments

My daughter's 5th Birthday Cake

It took a few months of planning, getting in the supplies and making clear in my head the design of the cake. It came down to last Friday (28th January) to make the arch. It took me nearly all day purely to allow things to dry before moving onto the next step. Thankfully got that completed before my daughter came home from nursery.

Monday 1st February, 2 days till her birthday. I make the chocolate cake only to realise after levelling it, it wasn't deep enough. Unfortunately it was… Continue

Added by Rachel Graham on February 3, 2010 at 3:20pm — 3 Comments

even cake layers

Would love to know if anyone has suggestions on how to make nice even layers when baking like tiered cakes for instance..I can never seem to get nice even layers no matter what I do. HELP

Added by Sherry E. Nash on February 1, 2010 at 9:51am — 5 Comments

Butter Cream Roses

I, as well as many of you, know how difficult it is to make the "butter cream roses". I went on "You Tube" and they had some good samples of how to make them. Just plug it he words "Wilton's Roses" and you will find many videos that may help you out. If I can, I'll try and post one up under "Videos". Good luck and keep baking! :)

Added by Diana Viera on January 21, 2010 at 5:16am — 2 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/user/CakesBenicia

https://www.youtube.com/user/CakesBenicia

view free educational videos I made on gum paste flowers...

Added by Rosa Lee Appleby on January 20, 2010 at 7:11pm — 1 Comment

Introducing Myself

Hello Everyone,

I just became a member. I didn't even know this page existed. I am interestede in making cakes because I absolutely love it! I'm a mother of 2 - 2 year old daughter and 1 year old son. I am a 23 year old stay at home mom. I make cakes for all my family gatherings and anytime I can really. People I know have just started asking me to make their wedding cakes and birthday cakes ect so I'm pretty excited. Since I am a stay at home mom I really want to get into this full time,… Continue

Added by Candice Charron on January 20, 2010 at 12:38pm — 1 Comment

Support the Children of Haiti

I am working with this great cause for Haiti called www.Help4Haiti911.org they are sending medical supplies to Haiti. 100% of proceeds are going to the cause. Text "Support hfh" to 20222 and a $5 donation will be made to the children of Haiti automatically or visit www.Help4Haiti911.org to make a donation. Thanks for your support

Added by Fred Pesce on January 19, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Cake Crown Toppers. www.lebigkiss.com

I joined Cakes we bake last week and I think it's a great site.

I have been posting a few photographs of my work and I have had some very flattering comments ( which is inspiering!)also it seems that "what are the crowns made of" is a popular question so I have taken this oppotunity to describe how I make a crown topper.

The support as I like to call it (the body of the crown) is usually made from card not just any old card I might add but a high quality product.

The… Continue

Added by Tanya on January 4, 2010 at 6:00am — 7 Comments