Cake Decorating Woes
I'm going to make all of the newbies feel better. I'm just having one of those days and I know we all have them, so it inspired me...
Don't you hate it when you think you have another bag of sugar, but you don't, and you have to run out to the store in the middle of baking?
Don't you hate it when you keep making marks in the gum paste with your nails and have to keep fixing them?
Don't you hate it when you know you can't fit a triple cake recipe in your mixer and you say the hell with it, do it any way, then have to pour everything into a big pot and break out the hand mixer to finish mixing?
This is a small list, but it all happened to me today, and it's still early!
Go ahead! Let it all out! Add your cake decorating woes below.
Don't you hate it when you think you have another bag of sugar, but you don't, and you have to run out to the store in the middle of baking?
Don't you hate it when you keep making marks in the gum paste with your nails and have to keep fixing them?
Don't you hate it when you know you can't fit a triple cake recipe in your mixer and you say the hell with it, do it any way, then have to pour everything into a big pot and break out the hand mixer to finish mixing?
This is a small list, but it all happened to me today, and it's still early!
Go ahead! Let it all out! Add your cake decorating woes below.
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Permalink Reply by Theresa Happe on
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Oops. Another screw up. I just went to the store for sugar and I never got cocoa powder. Change of plans.
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Permalink Reply by Stampinsher on
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Yes, you made this newbie laugh out loud and made me feel better. I'm laughing at everything I've done which is so similar and I live 30 minutes away from a store in town!!!
My repeated cake decorating woes is:
heavy cream
So I make sure when we go into town I purchase it at Costco because I just know I will use it within 10 days and the fresh date. Each and every time I do that, I don't use it and I have to throw it out.
Therefore, to my surprise I started to make plans and saw that I didn't have any heavy cream so I put it off again until I go to town.
I've done this at least 3 times!
Powder sugar I learned to have in stock but I ran out of granulated sugar! How could I do that?
Breakfast we eat eggs!
Yep, I ran out of eggs too!!!
My timing sucks, LOL.
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Permalink Reply by Deah on
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That's funny because I had to stop in the middle of baking last night and run to the store for sour cream. The sad part is that my husband bought a 5 lbs container on Monday for me thinking it would be enough for the week.
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Great! Now I have no dishwasher tablets. I have to wash everything by hand.
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Permalink Reply by Eileen S on
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Sorry to hear you are all having crummy (crumby? ;) ) baking days. Knock on wood, things are good so far over here. The only issue I'm having is high humidity and my lilies are not setting up as quickly as I would like and I only have 6 forms so I have to do a batch, let them set overnight, do another batch, and on and on. I need 3 for a taster cake this weekend and at least 50 (yes, 50!!!) for a wedding next weekend.
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Permalink Reply by Mizztry on
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Oh noo...ladies it is truely frusturating!!!
I've ran out of eggs, flour and made my husband run out to get it AT NIGHT!!
My kitchen aid likes to spit back at me...so when i add the flour my kitchen sometimes is a mess...white everywhere!!! I even do it slowly...little by little...
Also when the cake you made does not fit into the container/box you had prepared for it..ugghh...so you have to come up with a creative solution to pacakge it w/o damaging the icing!
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Eileen, well I didn't mention how sticky my gum paste was last night with it being 100 degrees in my kitchen. I was making daisies all night because they kept sticking to the cutter. Man, was I cursing! Can't tell you how much cornstarch I went through. You could turn your oven on briefly (dread) and then shut it and when it's just warm, put the lilies in there to dry them out faster.
Meera, you can hang a kitchen towel over your mixer to contain the sugar cloud. The Kitchen Aid actually does have a plastic thingy (I forgot what it's called) that sits on top of the bowl to keep stuff from poofing out.
Meera said:Oh noo...ladies it is truely frusturating!!!
I've ran out of eggs, flour and made my husband run out to get it AT NIGHT!!
My kitchen aid likes to spit back at me...so when i add the flour my kitchen sometimes is a mess...white everywhere!!! I even do it slowly...little by little...
Also when the cake you made does not fit into the container/box you had prepared for it..ugghh...so you have to come up with a creative solution to pacakge it w/o damaging the icing!
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Oh, my God. Maybe we should have a phone number to call on days like this. Who took my cooling racks?
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Okay, I found them. Breathe.
Theresa Happe said:Oh, my God. Maybe we should have a phone number to call on days like this. Who took my cooling racks?
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On a positive note, my cakes came out so even I don't think I have to level them. I will try to hold on to that thought throughout the rest of the day, because I know more mishaps are coming.
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Permalink Reply by Patricia Soto on
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Just this morning went to the store for butter for a sheet cake I am making and grab a roll of parchment paper, But decided to put it back on the way to the register... While I was getting the pan ready I grab the roll of paper I had...OOppps had a very small piece left. So I post on here and find out I can use the wax paper did it...(thank you) ,But now I notice I dont have anough sugar !!!!!! I am going back to bed and start over...LOL
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I was just going to say, I'm going back to bed. I just burned my hand. Well, now I have sugar. You want me to beam some over to you, Patricia?
Patricia Soto said:Just this morning went to the store for butter for a sheet cake I am making and grab a roll of parchment paper, But decided to put it back on the way to the register... While I was getting the pan ready I grab the roll of paper I had...OOppps had a very small piece left. So I post on here and find out I can use the wax paper did it...(thank you) ,But now I notice I dont have anough sugar !!!!!! I am going back to bed and start over...LOL
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