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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 2:55 pm
Easter
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 2:56 pm
Easter Cakes
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 2:57 pm
Easter Cakes
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 3:00 pm
Took the yellow basket weave cake to my family as there were more mistakes and the violet flowers to hubby's side. It is very time consuming to make those flowers but by the time I was done I think I mastered the violet! My big bucket of frosting is almost gone and needs to be used by the end of the week so I will have to make a cake & some cupcakes in the next couple of days.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 3:09 pm
Sugar, the cakes are just lovely. I especially like the Thanksgiving cake. I love the violets!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 3:13 pm
My violets never work out.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 3:15 pm
Thank you. This year I am going to look for the candies I need for the Thanksgiving cake early. The magazine I saw it in had various fall candies like pumpkins. It may have said to use marzipan, I'll need to look again. By the time I went shopping just before Thanksgiving, there were hardly any fall candies after halloween.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 3:19 pm
The ironic thing about the violets is nobody wants to eat that many. They take a long time to create and it does make a pretty cake, but it is just too much sweet I think. Silly Wilton book.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 3:25 pm
I am finding that candy molds are the way to go regarding making flowers. Look better, taste better and come out perfect every time.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 3:27 pm
What does one use to make the molds?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 3:50 pm
you can buy the molds in whatever shape, then you melt the melting candy and squeeze it into the molds. There are many 3D molds that will do this. I used candy molds to make the daisies on the butterfly cake.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2009 - 4:05 pm
Thanks, I didn't know if a person could use something other than candy melts or not.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, June 05, 2009 - 8:09 am
My first paying gig:

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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, June 05, 2009 - 8:29 am
Beautiful!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Friday, June 05, 2009 - 8:45 am
VERY nice!! Congratulations! Sugar, I love the violet cake.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, June 05, 2009 - 11:07 am
Sugar, your work is just beautiful! I especially love the violets: my favorite color, and what beautiful flowers. Escapee, those are lovely. What was/were the occasion/s? What did you charge? I'm curious as all get-out, LOL. The white on the striped cake looks like fondant. Is it?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, June 08, 2009 - 8:08 am
I charged the gal $40, but the next cakes prices will be more. I didn't make any profit, really. They were for her son's graduation and her anniversary.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, June 08, 2009 - 3:22 pm
Escapee, congrats on a paying gig! How did you get it? You have shared some beautiful cakes and shown your versatility as well. Too bad your profit was marginal. I am curious on how a cake cost you $40.00 to make. I'm guessing that you used molds to make the flowers and then piped the yellow stamens on the molds, is that right? Thank you Sia for the compliment. I was rather pleased how the violet cake turned out for my first try at it.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 7:41 am
well, the box of fondant was $20 by itself, then I needed cake boards in two sizes, and they come per pack, and I needed cake boxes too. That was before the frosting, candy, and cake ingredients. So it cost close to $40.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 9:28 am
The supplies for any creative venture (beading, painting, carving, embroidery, etc.) are expensive, but you begin to make a little bit when you can use the same supplies again and again. It'll get easier on the budget, and you'll start to show a better profit. I have always put my profit--and extra money--into more beads. I love to bead. Good luck to all of you with your beautiful cakes. People will pay extra for personalized cakes; I have bought special cakes and am willing to pay extra to get just the right look or theme. Keep at it, and you'll have great success, I'm sure.
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 11:15 am
Escapee, I was a bakery manager for 18yrs and you would be surprized at how many folks would call or come in requesting to buy packaging or supplys from us.... We could get very good prices on "all things cake" and made orders twice a week... often we would order stuff for folks and charge them our cost...as long as they paid upfront..... It was a good deal for them and we ordered anyway.... the catalogs had everything you could emagine... and it does get expensive but as Sia said, you always drop alot of money to start...but if its somthing you truly love to do, it pays in the end cause your main tools are right there...
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 3:49 pm
As I don't do fondant I had no idea how expensive it was! How many cakes can be made from one box? Have you found a fondant that doesn't have an unpleasant taste? I have heard some exist and a lady who owns a cake shop swears the stuff she makes tastes great. Her stuff is pretty expensive IMO so I probably won't ever find out.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 4:27 pm
you could make your own fondant, i have a recipe for it, and you know my email escapee
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 8:03 am
Just an FYI, it is much, much easier and less messy to just buy it. One box (the $20) will probably do 3 9 inch round cakes. I've made it in the past and thought "this is for the birds" and just bought some.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 10:17 am
yeah... if you watch Ace of Cakes they buy it by the 5 gallon bucket!
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