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catin
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Joined: Feb 14, 2008
Posts: 163
Location: Azilda Ontario, Canada
Birthday: Jan 15
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:19 am |
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I have a cake order for a 2D My little Pony Cake for next week and the person ordering the cake wanted to know if I can get the head looking like 3D .
I thought on adding more cake to the head part to make it pop out a little more . But how to I go about it ?
And also she wants two different colors of Buttercream on the pony ...the fading color affect ( as you see alot on the plastic pony play toys). How do I get that effect with the buttercream ? Do i just brush it on ?
Help please!!!
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Dixiegal01
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Joined: Feb 21, 2007
Posts: 280
Location: Mesquite, TX
Birthday: Aug 30
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:40 am |
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Sorry I can't help  but I'm looking forward to the reply's from all our talented caker's on CC  |
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TooMuchCake
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Joined: May 01, 2005
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:50 am |
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Yes, you can put on the two colors of buttercream and blend them together. I do it a lot. You can see in my photos where sometimes I do that, and sometimes I give it a faint airbrushing. The dragon is airbrushed, for example, and the Father Christmas and New Puppy are shaded with different shades of buttercream.
HTH,
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catin
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Location: Azilda Ontario, Canada
Birthday: Jan 15
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:36 pm |
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Your Cakes are beautiful TwoMuchCake, I was wondering if the brush buttercream technique would work to blend the colors |
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TooMuchCake
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:44 pm |
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Thank you! Yes, I hot-brush my buttercream sculptures so that will work nicely to blend the colors.
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Dixiegal01
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Location: Mesquite, TX
Birthday: Aug 30
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:37 pm |
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| TooMuchCake wrote: | Thank you! Yes, I hot-brush my buttercream sculptures so that will work nicely to blend the colors.
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I've never heard of hot-brush, can you explain? I agree, your cakes are phenominal! |
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TooMuchCake
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:06 pm |
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Thanks! Instead of using a hot spatula to smooth the icing (like some people do when they base-ice their cakes), use a soft brush heated the same way to smooth the icing. You can get into the contours better with the brush.
Deanna |
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playingwithsugar
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Joined: Aug 31, 2005
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Location: Carrot Cake Should Count As A Vegetable!
Birthday: Nov 20
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:51 pm |
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Thanks for all that information TooMuchCake. The next time you do this technique, would you be able to take a couple of pictures, for a visual on it, for us?
Thanks again -
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TooMuchCake
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:38 pm |
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I have a video out where I made a dog cake similar to the one in my avatar, and a lion cake. I show how to cover them in buttercream. If you're interested, there is a link in my sig line. My alter-ego website (www.cakedalaska.com) has some in-progress photos on it, but none of them show me doing the hot brushing. They're of the cakes in stages. I'll have a monkey cake on there sometime this week, I hope.
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