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Hi everyone, my name is Tracy Orr from Birchwood Tn.  I am new to cake decorating. I am self learned. so I am excited to see all the tips you have for cake decorating. I really love this site.

Hello everyone! My name is Kai and I am from Medford, Wisconsin. I just started making cakes about 1 1/2 years ago, I really enjoy making MMF cakes. ;o) I am self taught so I look forward to learning tips and skills from all of you!!! you all are so talented. I feel a bit intimitdated lol. I have A LOT to learn so please share any advice you would have when it comes to MMF and butter-cream cakes?? :0) Happy baking!

Oh I know I go on about this, but if anything is going to get my goat (or four legged animal of your choice) it's humidity.

I can can cope with the odd breakage, a cake that didn't rise right, colour on my hands, spilling glitter everywhere, but these things are controllable, but humidity is the one thing that I have little hope…

Help the Sugar Arts Institute come up with a catchy tagline for a chance to win a 4 oz. container of Iridescent Twinkle Sprinkle edible glitter - value $52.

To enter, post your tagline suggestion on the Sugar Arts Institute Facebook page by February 14th.

Hint: Your entry should be something professional that conveys we are a school providing certification. (Most entries so far do…

I am a stay at home mother and started making cakes to save us money and am now doing it as a side business!(legally allowed-to reassure everyone ;) I try me best to make sure every aspect of my cakes are edible. I only use homemade marshmallow fondant and when cake is not possible I usually turn to rice cereal treats covered in chocolate for stability-such as my XBOX controllers and buck head. I also enjoy adding other elements like lights, and spinning as well as coloring the inside of my…

Planning on attending the Atlantic City Bakery Expo March 18th and 19th? If you decide before February 17th, we have free VIP Tickets! How..you ask? Like us on Facebook and then request at sales@icingimages.com and we will send one out to you!

This is a Chocolate fudge Cake.Butter cream Icing & Fondant.

and i used pearl Dust on the Ribbon on the hat.

My Bonnet and Hatbox cake is a 14"  two layer white cake with rasberry filling covered in Fondant. The pearls were made using a silicone mold dusted with pearl dust. Between fondant strips is Scroll work done with royal icing, the flowers were made of gumpaste and hand formed then lightly sprayed with color.  The bonnet bow was a fondant and gumpaste mix for firmness and stabilty and attached with a tylose & water glue. The bonnet is fondant that was rolled onto a round 12" cake board…

love to dev´corate cakes and hope to learn alot from here

White Roses in a box

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I am new to the Knoxville area and wanted to let everyone know that I have Wilton classes at Michaels on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, TN.

I have been a Wilton Instructor for almost 3 years at Johnson City, TN Michaels. I look forward to having great classes here as well. I just had training for the new Course 4-Advanced Gum Paste Flowers and am very excited to get started teaching this class.

duz any 1 know what happen ? i cant find were to upload ?

Hey all you wonderful Icing Images customers...

Did you know that just for being an Icing Images customer you have FREE access to our iiPrint program on our website?  You can access it by going to www.icingimages.com and logging in and then clicking on the iiPrint icon.

With IiPrint, you can print on all your Premium Icing Sheets!  You can print the circles, you can also print borders and text! 

While your there check out…

Icing Sheets in the Winter! In the winter time, as it gets colder, any brand of icing sheet tends to dry out.  Some brands dry out quicker than others.  Think about it, you have a thin layer of icing on a piece of paper.  It is the moisture that adheres it to the backing or paper and the moisture also keeps the icing sheet plyable.  In the dryer times of year or even dryer climates, the moisture begins to evaporate which can cause several problems. FIrst is obvious, icing sheets…

I was wondering if anyone  is purchasing petal dust to use on their gumpaste flowers, the price for the petal dust is so high and you get a very small amount.  I decided to purchase some non-toxic chalk from an online cake supplier, it was still very expensive, so my next great idea,lol, was to go to Michaels craft store and purchase Soft Artist chalk Pastels, they are non-toxic and for only $5.00 for a box of 36 plus coupon they are a steal. I used them to dust these flowers: I think the…

 Come join us for our Masquerade Ball Party at our 2nd Annual Florida ICED Cake Competition. Sponsored by Icing Images.  We have tons of great demos, vendors, sponsors.  Our Charity is The Arthritis Foundation. We have FREE Kids Corner.  We have all division levels from youth to professional. Our date is March 31st & April 1st weekend of 2012.  Visit us at www.FloridaICED.com or facebook, Florida ICED Cake Competition.  Come join us in this fun…

I have been getting several questions regarding our new colored electronic cutting sheets.  Here are a few facts to help everyone understand this new product.

Like our white Premium Icing Sheets that are used for printing on, the colored sheets offer that same plyable, flexability.  These sheets are a bit bigger, at 11.75x12", they are ment to be used in all electronic cutting machines and can be cut down to the size you want to use to avoid waste and give you more options.  If we had…

When I do number cakes, I bake cakes in 1/2 sheet pans and usually do two layers and carve the number out of the sheet cakes.  Just mak sure your cakes are slightly frozen before carving.  You can use the leftover cake to make mini cakes or cake pops.  I hope this helps.

Marva

I have to create a cake for a lady's 100th birthday.  Her daughter wants 3 cakes which represent the numbers, "100" and it needs to serve about 75 people.  I have two choices, bake cakes and put them together somehow, or bake cupcakes, line them up so they look like the numbers and frost them all together.

Any suggestions?  I could put two rectangular cakes together for the number "1", but am clueless what I could use for the zeros, unless I use a wedding cake pan-and then…