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Reality TVClubHouse Discussions: General Discussions ARCHIVES: August 2009 ~ December 2009: Cooking Corner: Cakes, confections, cookies, etc.: Archive through September 19, 2009 users admin

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Sugar
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08-15-2000

Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 11:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
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.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 11:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
i like the way you think! and if he survives... he'll never ask you to bake cakes again!

Holly
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07-22-2001

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 5:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Hell, I'd just buy 10 cakes.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 5:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
LOLOL you guys are too funny. Landi, I like the way you think ROFL!! Sugar, I just read Colossus your suggestion he is ROLLING!!!

Ecoop
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07-07-2005

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 6:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ecoop a private message Print Post    
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.

Ecoop
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07-07-2005

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 6:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ecoop a private message Print Post    
If you are going to do a crumb coat, thin the icing for this first layer just a bit with water.

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 7:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Cinnamongirl, that site you listed is terrific, it answers most of my (paranoid) questions!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 7:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
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.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 8:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
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!

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
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.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
been out of town, but since these are being cut into single serving portions, why not make 3 sheet cakes instead?

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 5:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
No suggestions -- just ROFLMBO!!! This thread is hilarious!

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 6:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
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.


Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 9:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Cupcakes are good, but you'll save some serious time frosting one pan cake (NOT pancake) instead of 24 cupcakes....

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 11:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
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!

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Monday, September 14, 2009 - 5:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
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.


Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, September 14, 2009 - 8:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
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.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Monday, September 14, 2009 - 9:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
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.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 12:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
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?

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 10:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
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):




Dipo
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04-23-2002

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Wow, Escappee, those are very cool.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 9:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
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.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 10:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Goddessatlaw, how did your cakes turn out? Does Colossus live?

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Friday, September 18, 2009 - 11:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Urgrace, that's what I do as well.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 12:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
I do the same thing, too. I got that from my mother.