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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 11:13 pm
Or make a very dry sample cake for him to taste. Do not give him a drink and then leave so if he chokes you won't be there. That might relive you of your cake problem and keep you out of jail. In fact, you may get some sympathy cakes from others.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 11:51 pm
i like the way you think! and if he survives... he'll never ask you to bake cakes again!
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 5:25 am
Hell, I'd just buy 10 cakes.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 5:31 am
LOLOL you guys are too funny. Landi, I like the way you think ROFL!! Sugar, I just read Colossus your suggestion he is ROLLING!!!
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Ecoop
Member
07-07-2005
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 6:28 am
I recently made a bundt cake and instead of Crisco and flour, I tried the Pam spray in the non-stick bundt pan. I came out perfectly.
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Ecoop
Member
07-07-2005
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 6:29 am
If you are going to do a crumb coat, thin the icing for this first layer just a bit with water.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 7:52 am
Cinnamongirl, that site you listed is terrific, it answers most of my (paranoid) questions!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 7:57 am
FYI the cakes will be cut into single serving portions and likely put into containers for carry-out meals. We are serving a nursing home with 65 single meals on Thursday so I figured my cakes could be set to that purpose, and many of the other donated cakes (which are bound to look better than mine) can be used in the dining hall for people who are eating in. The ones in the dining hall won't be put into individual containers, just laid out on plates.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 8:53 am
I cannot imagine agreeing to make ten cakes. I have probably never even made one cake. Well, I don't eat cake, there you go!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 10:24 am
I am thrilled to see that if I need to kill someone, the TVCH peeps have lots of good ideas that will keep me out of jail, LMAO.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 4:43 pm
been out of town, but since these are being cut into single serving portions, why not make 3 sheet cakes instead?
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 5:33 pm
No suggestions -- just ROFLMBO!!! This thread is hilarious! 
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 6:43 pm
GAL, if they are not for "show" and you aren't worried about, "the ladies of the Eastern Star tch-tching me for being a failure at cake icing 101" then go ahead and use the disposable pans for the to go cake or make cupcakes. Glad you and Colossus were amused at my suggestion.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 9:25 pm
Cupcakes are good, but you'll save some serious time frosting one pan cake (NOT pancake) instead of 24 cupcakes....
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 11:59 pm
Question for all you cake decorating specialist...Dakota wants a cake decorated with a softball. Any ideas? I have zero decorating skills and thought maybe I could use one of those gel thingies to draw one, but I can already imagine how that would turn out, lol. I thought if I had someway to keep it from ever touching the cake, I could set a real softball on something on top, but my luck someone would bump into it or I'd move the cake and the softball would fall and ruin it. Or better yet, since Gal's already making 10 cakes, maybe she could come here in the morning and whip another one up!
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, September 14, 2009 - 5:33 am
Wargod, perhaps you could bake a 9 x 13 cake and then a 6" round cake to set on the top of it for the ball. You may have to trim the round cake a bit if it is too big or to make it more of a softball shape or group together a few cupcakes on the top if the rectangle cake. Use white frosting for your softball and just buy a little tube of red to make the stitching marks. Or whatever color they use for the stitching. This would give her cake some dimension and might be easier than trying to draw a softball. You could put the softball in the middle of the cake and indicate the playing diamond/field whatever it is called around the ball. Personally, I don't really care for the tubes of gel, they never really dry/set and are easily messed up. Or I just never mastered drawing with the gel.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, September 14, 2009 - 8:01 am
Wargod, at Michael's they have a pan that is actually a sphere, all you'd have to do is bake a cake in that, frost it white and pipe on some red lacing. I think the pan runs about $10. If it is not enough cake for a party, you could do some cupcakes that look like grass and place them around the base of the ball so it looked like the softball was lying in the grass. And GAL, do not stress. I make my own frosting and I never do a crumb coat, just remember before you frost it to brush off any crumbs. Then, when you put the frosting on, make sure your spatula does not touch the actual cake, that will keep you from pulling crumbs into it. If you get a lot of crumbs anyway, stick the frosted cake uncovered into the fridge for about an hour, take it back out, and put on another layer of frosting. This should help. You can't have too much frosting.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, September 14, 2009 - 9:11 am
Ohhh, ok, Escapee's way sounds easier and idiot proof. Think I'll try that. Softballs are yellow and I can just buy white frosting, I have food coloring. This is just a small cake for home for tonight, so no worries about their being enough. Sis and bil and their girls may come over but thats about it. For her party this weekend, we're either buying a Costco cake (they have one decorated with a baseball diamond and glove) or a friend will make one if she has the time to do it. Thanks ladies! This is one crafty skill that completely eludes me. I'll be lucky if the cake doesn't come out lopsided, lol.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 12:58 am
Escapee did you start a cake business? I'm trying to remember. I think there was a thread somewhere once about some potential names for your business. Am I totally confused? If not, how is the business going?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 10:28 am
Haven't started the business yet. I am still getting my name out there and feelers out for markets. Plus I am going back to school so I have my plate pretty full right now. I have made a few cakes in the past couple of months. One for a baby shower, one for my nephew and one for my friends birthday. I have a wedding cake to do in April so I have been working on my lacing a lot. Here are the cakes (bear with me, they were taken with a camera phone):

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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 1:31 pm
Wow, Escappee, those are very cool.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:47 pm
Hmmmm, for many years I've lined the bottom of my round or square cake pans with a cut-to-fit piece of parchment or waxed paper. ( It's not necessary to grease/flour the sides. ) After 10-15 minutes of cooling time the cake flips right out of the pan onto a plate, and you just peel off the paper then finish cooling the cake. The bottom becomes the top and is very smooth and easy to frost.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Friday, September 18, 2009 - 10:35 pm
Goddessatlaw, how did your cakes turn out? Does Colossus live?
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, September 18, 2009 - 11:54 pm
Urgrace, that's what I do as well.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 12:22 am
I do the same thing, too. I got that from my mother.
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