This is my first attempt at fbct. (Sorry about the lighting. It was much prettier in real life. The light in that room was not so good.) I needed a cake for my daughter's church youth group Christmas party. I was surprised at how long it took me to "color" in the transfer. It turned out ok, I guess, but I have two questions...

1. After I placed the transfer on the cake, there was a lip of icing around the transfer that was a lot higer than the cake. I tried to smooth it the best I could, but it still had a lump all the way around it. Is there a way to avoid this or fix it?

2. How do you smooth the icing as you color the transfer? Some of mine looked like little squiggles of icing in the spaces.

I haven't done a fbct yet. So, I can't answer your questions.

BUT, your cake looks great!

Love the cake and transfer, and of course the cake's message as well! Unfortunately I have no experience with FBCT, but I just wanted to say - GREAT JOB!

Good Job. Very cute!!

The cake looks great!

I'm not sure what to tell you about the lip of icing around the image. But as for the "squiggles"...after my image has lightly crusted, I gently tap on the icing to press it against the board I am working on, and the front of my images always come out smooth - no squiggles!

(Also, I like to work these on my glass cutting board...that way i can slide the image out from under my work, hold up to the light, and see the front of my image. It helps me to fill any voids I may not have otherwiase seen!)

I am fairly new fbct also but I have fixed this problem in 2 ways ..one is to press the transfer into the iced cake and smooth using the viva paper towel method...or put a border around the transfer

Thanks for your comments. I will try your suggetions on my next attempt .

Looking good.

Afer you place the fbct on the cake, take some cornstarch on your finger and smooth out the wrinkles.

Some people put a border around the fbct.

Can't really answer your questions since I've only done 1 FBCT, but yours looks great!

so cute!
to avoid the 'lip' i do one of two things:
1. (like mentioned before) put a border around it
2. make the transfer to cover the whole cake. for example, if you're making a 8" round, trace the pan onto the paper with your picture on it. draw your picture, then fill in the background as part of the transfer. (basically make an 8" round transfer) then it'll go all the way to the edge of the cake and there will be no lip
sorry it's so wordy, i'm not that good at explaining stuff.
hope this helps

Great cake! I love that little sheep.....he's so cute! I just want to eat him up!

I have never done a transfer before. Are there instructions on this website?

Where do you get your images from?

Beautiful!

I am too lazy to mess with a FBCT, but yours looks great! You did a really good job and it looks like it was a pretty large picture!

I hope you entered this in the contest. It is adorable. Great job on the FBCT!!!!

I just have to add my compliment too! Super cute cake! I love those country crafty looking designs! I bet everyone loved it!
Great job,
Heather

Your cake is wonderful. The transfer came out great.

When I do transfers, I use an 8X12 acrylic picture frame, the cheap box-y kind, and take out the cardboard insert. I do the transfer on the frame so when I'm done, I hold it up to the ceiling light and look under it to see where I need to smooth out the transfer more. That seems to help. (It's much like gmcakes glass cuttingboard)

kos

I'm not generally a fan of the country crafty look at all.. but that was too adorable for words. I love it!

Jas

I've never done a BCT, but I just wanted to say that I really love your cake. It is really cute and focuses on the true meaning of Christmas. Good Job.