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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Monday, February 09, 2009 - 4:19 pm
Teach, what a fun link you posted...'Cake wrecks'....I worked in a bakery for almost 20yrs and made some pretty crazy stuff and that is a great site..... already gave me some great gag ideas......Cool!!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, February 09, 2009 - 10:21 pm
Glad you enjoyed it Chew. I've got it on my google reader - and today's topic was Disgusting Feet cakes. It's tons of fun!
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 5:06 pm
All my flowers look floral to me but do not always resemble a specific flower. I want to post pics of my Thanksgiving cake and my Valentine cake so need to research how to make them small enough to post. Hubby is supposed to help, (do it for me ) but hasn't so far.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 8:58 pm
Doea anyone have any tips for crumb coating? Mine still seems very crumby.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 9:39 pm
Sugar, if you go to the microsoft site and look up "power toys" and downloads, you'll see they have an "image resizer" you can download. It only takes a couple of seconds, and when it's done you can RIGHT click on any of your pictures and then click "Resize." It will give you three standard options, and if they don't go small enough (65Kb) you can use the "custom" setting. Easy peasy. 
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:31 pm
Sugar, just click on this -> Resize Pictures Online
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 8:00 am
Sugar, I used to do a crumb coat, but now I don't. I bought a really cool frosting tip that puts the frosting on the cake, crumb free. The trick is to never touch the cake with the spatula, just touch the frosting.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 8:49 am
Grace, that link doesn't work.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 10:41 am
That's what I tried to do Escapee, maybe I just need more practice. I was worried that the cake would be to frosting heavy so maybe I needed to start with more when I was attempting to crumb coat.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 10:49 am
You can also glaze the cake first with something and then let it set, that will kinda glue the crumbs in. Alwasy take a pastry brush and brush off the crumbs before you ice it. There is also no such thing as too frosting heavy. LOL
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 10:53 am
I certainly need to get a pastry brush. I remeber how everyone wanted a rose from the birthday cake when we were kids. Now it seems like a lot of frosting. Guess it's not such a bad thing that my roses aren't too good yet.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 11:04 am
Sugar, dont' feel bad, mine aren't great either. My instructor told me that leaves will hid a lot of imperfections. Do you have this tip yet? http://www.wilton.com/decorating/icing/using-decorating-tip-789.cfm
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 11:13 am
No I do not. I treated myself to the Wilton book, title eludes me right now and knee hurts too much to go downstairs and get it, anyway, the book does show these pics so this may be my next tip. I also want to get one of those cases that holds tips, frosting colouring etc. it looks like a toolbox. Does this tip have some sort of special coupler? It looks different, but can't tell from the picture.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 11:15 am
Yeah I broke down and bout the medium sized one. Now I wish I would have bought the uber big one. FOr that tip I bought the 16" frosting bag, and just cut the bottom big enough to fit that tip, I don't think you can use a coupler with that tip.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 11:21 am
Did you take the Wilton classes? Mine are not Wilton, the teacher used to do Wilton classes, but thinks a lot of the Wilton steps are unecessary. Although I am enjoying it, I wish I had more natural talent. Eventually, I will try to find a way to post the pics. This computer simply isn't cooperating with me, maybe hubby will have better luck. He is off tomorrow, perhaps I can convince him to try while I am babysitting toddler nephew & niece.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 11:30 am
I did take wilton, I would like to try others. I just don't think they offer them in my area.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 2:16 pm
I want to see some new cakes you guys are doing.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 2:44 pm
Here is my latest: 
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 3:08 pm
That is way cool!!!!
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Cinnamongirl
Member
01-10-2001
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 3:33 pm
Awwwwwww. Great Job Escapee
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 4:49 pm
Dang, Escapee!! That is absolutely adorable! What a cute, cute cake. And beautifully executed, too! PS is the skirt on the doll icing and cake too? It looks like it's icing (and possibly cake).
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 6:07 pm
www.shrinkpictures.com is the link for resizing pictures
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, February 27, 2009 - 7:59 am
Yes it is cake! Thank you so much!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 8:12 am
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, March 09, 2009 - 8:12 am
Not my best work, but sufficient.
The frosting never set (don't buy the wilton pre-made in the "big" tub) so I couldn't get it smooth enough. Plus, it was lavender when I left the house, the gal I made it for put it in the sun, the chocolate melted and the lavender turned blue. LOL. The kids like it.
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