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Gonzuela's Blog – February 2010 Archive (4)

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

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