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 Neryl Johnson on
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Hi Eileen, why don't you use foil to make more formers? Shape the foil around your existing form. :-)
Eileen S said: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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Hi Theresa, I never use cornstach, I only use - I think you call it Crisco? a white cooking fat. I use it on my hands, my board , my cutters and when I use the pasta machine to roll the paste I'll spread some on both side of the paste and I've never had a problem! Use sparingly as to much could cause paste to be short! Although cornstarch makes it easier to roll and cut out it does take much longer for the flowers to dry, other ingredients in many if not all flower paste recipes that cause the flowers not to dry quickly is gelatin and liquid glucose. Since I've removed these ingredients from my paste, all my flowers not only dry but hold there shape no matter how hot, cold or how high the humidity is!!!
Theresa Happe said: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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Permalink Reply by Renee' Minard on
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I hate it when I get interupted in the middle of measuring something and then can't remember, was it 2 or 3.......... and on the note of running out of sugar, or crisco, why is we can buy 24 rolls of tissue but if we buy 24 bags of sugar the cashier looks at us like we have gone nuts !! and then we still run out in the middle of baking ! LO! Hope you all have a better day tommorow :)
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Permalink Reply by Eileen S on
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I always chuckle when I go to Sam's Club and stack 5 bags of powdered sugar in my cart (7 lbs. each) and people look at me like I'm a headcase. LOL!!
On the parchment paper note, I always keep 2 rolls in my cupboard. When I run out of one and start the other, I add Parchment paper to my grocery list so the next time I go I pick some up (even though I technically don't need it yet). I've never run out when I needed it most! :)
I was suprised to find out that if you buy a case of 5 dozen eggs, it actually costs more than buying the dozens individually. What the ?? I did the math last time I was in the grocery store.
And Renee - I'm with you on the measuring. I've been known to start over again. I'll usually measure into another bowl before adding anything into the big mixer just in case that happens.
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Permalink Reply by Theresa Happe on
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Thanks, Neryl. I'll try that next time. I always make the Wilton gum paste recipe and just assumed the glucose played an important role.
Neryl Johnson said:Hi Theresa, I never use cornstach, I only use - I think you call it Crisco? a white cooking fat. I use it on my hands, my board , my cutters and when I use the pasta machine to roll the paste I'll spread some on both side of the paste and I've never had a problem! Use sparingly as to much could cause paste to be short! Although cornstarch makes it easier to roll and cut out it does take much longer for the flowers to dry, other ingredients in many if not all flower paste recipes that cause the flowers not to dry quickly is gelatin and liquid glucose. Since I've removed these ingredients from my paste, all my flowers not only dry but hold there shape no matter how hot, cold or how high the humidity is!!!
Theresa Happe said: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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Permalink Reply by Diana Viera on
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Sorry ladies but I'm sitting here laughing at all the comments above. I've done the part where you need six cups of sugar, sifting while counting and forgot where I left off. I call this "brain fart"! LOL!!!
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Ok, so this is so retarded, I ought to be embarassed to share it. I used a mop handle to form the loops of my bows. I made them a teeny tiny smidgen to short, so I couldn't slide them off over the end of the handle without them breaking. (The end of the handle had a plastic thing on it that was a little wider than the rest of the handle). So, my son saved the day. He broke out the dremel and cut off the end of the handle. Phew! I didn't want to have to start over.
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Permalink Reply by Deah on
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But now you have a mop without a grip -- I guess there will be no more mopping for you!
Theresa Happe said:Ok, so this is so retarded, I ought to be embarassed to share it. I used a mop handle to form the loops of my bows. I made them a teeny tiny smidgen to short, so I couldn't slide them off over the end of the handle without them breaking. (The end of the handle had a plastic thing on it that was a little wider than the rest of the handle). So, my son saved the day. He broke out the dremel and cut off the end of the handle. Phew! I didn't want to have to start over.
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Permalink Reply by Stampinsher on
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That is a great idea, how to get out of mopping for as long as you can!
I'm enjoying these posting so much and laughing out loud. Sharing all of our woes with my husband who understand by my examples.
Keep posting.
Thanks!
Deah Aldridge said:But now you have a mop without a grip -- I guess there will be no more mopping for you!
Theresa Happe said:Ok, so this is so retarded, I ought to be embarassed to share it. I used a mop handle to form the loops of my bows. I made them a teeny tiny smidgen to short, so I couldn't slide them off over the end of the handle without them breaking. (The end of the handle had a plastic thing on it that was a little wider than the rest of the handle). So, my son saved the day. He broke out the dremel and cut off the end of the handle. Phew! I didn't want to have to start over.
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Permalink Reply by Sharon on
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You all are making me smile each time I come onto this discussion.....I love this "Cake Decorating Woes". it helps me accept all my failues...for it seems that I am not alone. :0)))
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What I need is a new floor. Do you know how horrible it is to have cream color tile? No mop can save me. I hate my kitchen!
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Yeah, I'm on hold until I go get cocoa powder. Man, I wish the grocery store delivered around here. I would never set foot in the store again. But, I hate all kinds of shopping.
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