Hi there, I'm new to the Friday night cake club. I wish I knew about this for all my friday night "all-nighters". I just finished up a transformers cake for a 5 yr old. Super sloppy with the flames but in order to fix them I would need to start from scratch on the fondant work and I am out of fondant and time...

I am also new to the friday night cake club! Probably cause everyother friday I'm doing a cake and don't get on here much! Tonight I feel a bit lost because I don't! Well i'm trying to put it together in my head about an order I got and how on earth I am going to pull it off...her it is any ideas????
A 3D stand-up cake of Pablo from the Backyardigans...no fondant and as much banana flavour as possible....it's for a first Birthday so she wants icing for the customary messiness!!!
Any ideas????
Oh and the cakes everyone is working on tonight look great....love the elmos!

Ashley

calling the west coast cake club to order...

I'm working on a Camp Rock guitar cake for a 5th birthday party (girl)

what's up with the 5th birthdays this weekend??

aimers that is an amazing cake. LOVE IT!!!

I am baking the cakes for 3 creations this weekend. I usually only do 1-2 a week but this week has been slammed. I can't wait to get legal and actually make money at this. Right now this is only family and close, close friends. In total I have 10 for the first 3 weeks of May. TOO much fun. And I am learning sooo much with every cake. I try and do 1 new technique every time. So far they have all panned out.

I am so encouraged by you guys who make 3-6 weddings plus bunch of birthdays and tons of cuppies a weekend. It makes the little bit I am doing seem so much more do-able. Thank you for being here on Friday night!!

Hey everyone! First time posting here. Going to be doing 2 8 inch birthday cakes that need to be girly. I only work with buttercreme anyone have any ideas?? Thanks.

Hello! Well i just finished a cake for a friends DH's 50th I think i was high on ps because i baked the wrong size for the top tier! Oh well! Anyways the figure on top is him dancing years ago!

I'm still plugging away. Everything is covered in bc, making fondant now. I don't know if I will get everything covered tonight, I may catch some zzz's and finish up in the AM. Hate to be crazy cake lady on Saturday morning but sometimes that's the way it goes.

(in hypnotist voice) I'm feeling sleeepeee, verrry verrry sleeepeee.....

Yes, I get silly when I'm tired!

It'll be a long one, if not an all-nighter, for me. I have 2 weddings tomorrow and about 7 birthdays. My assistant landed ill in the hospital this AM so I have been alone all day and I will assume tomorrow. THEN at 7pm (9:30 now) I just HAPPENED to be going through the future orders file and found TWO, count 'em two, tiered cakes due tomorrow that got lost. So now I have to bake too. Too many cooks in the kitchen....

Kory you poor thing! Here's wishing that everything runs smoothly. GOOD LUCK!!

momma_ash - I look back through my favorites for techniques then ideas start to flow. I put them in my favorites because I liked them for a reason, right? Maybe that will help you too. Good luck!!

Ball cake - done
9x13 - done

baking - 9x13, (2) 8x2, 6x1, 4x1

Not much more to go!! YAY!!

ok, got 1 rainbow guitar layer done, other is baking now. Gotta go make some bc... thinking raspberry flavor. then it's just cover and decorate. woohoo. think I need to make a pot of coffee...

Holy crap Kory....wow. Put on a pot of strong coffee!

Our shop has an espresso machine and a cooler full of Red Bull... I'm in as good of hands as possible. All cakes are now baked, I'm shuffling through the piles and making sense of it all and starting to torte them all.

sheesh Kory, I bow to you


psstt.... I have coffee

ok all torted and the girls made all the fillings before... so now its on to filling! (I know you probably all don't care so much about the play by play but I'm giving it to you anyway because it feels like accomplishments )

And my sick girl is better and will be in tomorrow! yay!

I've been working on an elephant head all night. It's rice krispy treats covered with RI and then fondant. It's gone pretty well. It'll eventually go on top of a cake, dressed in a graduation gown grasping a diploma in his trunk. Should be cute.

My only problem is that I ate ALL of the extra rice krispy treats. Dang, those things are addictive! I'm off to bed now.

Kory, I'm still here and applauding you each step of the way! he he he
Glad to hear about your helper.

Plenty of caffeine going through my veins too.

Down to the last 2 in the oven. Already washed everything else. Will put away in a few minutes. And then I am off to bed. About another 45 mins or so.

you go girls! I am rooting you on in spirit. Got sidetracked by my stepson and now am getting back to work. long night, ugh

All are filled and I have 4 tiers buttercreamed. And I've kept up with the dishes Maybe it'll be an ok night after all....

It's almost 5:30a here. So I am going to hit the hay for a few hours. Here's wishing you guys the best!!

All my cakes are done. And so is my little body! lol

Niters yall

I gave up.....after breaking 3 of my calla lillies while gluing them to stems, and then getting yellow from the stamens on my paint brush, and then unwittingly brushing it onto the white flower surfaces......I think it's time to get some sleep! LOL

Back to the grind in the morning!

3:00 now and I'm making an extra batch of buttercream... 7 more cakes to buttercream.

All in all tonight I am making 2 wedding cakes, both fairly simple

1) 3 tier
2) 4 tier

And 7 special occasion:

1) carved growler
2) carved lily pad with frog on it
3) carved grad hat for 50 ppl
4) 2 tier jungle theme baby shower
5) single royal flush topper round <-- winner, easy cake award
6) 2 tier under the sea theme
7) 2 tier, 8 theme graduation cake

and 80 petit fours in 3 flavors

whew!

wow KoryAK!!! Thanks a lot of cakes to do in one night!!!! Good luck.

Its now about 7:15am and Im thinking of making some cupcake pops, I have soo much extra cake in my freezer. My moms bday is tomorrow so I have to come up with a cak for her too. hmmmm.....

My Friday night consisted of completing a 3D barn scene with a barn (cake), fence, hill (with NCSU in flowers on it), a pond, fishing tackle and fish, and a few bales of hay. It's all done except for the barn roof, so I'm going to grab a cup of coffee and have a little roof raising party!

By then it's back to work ~ next week is teacher appreciation week, and I have a cake due every day next week, along with a 3D cow on Saturday. AND I have three kids and work a party time job! Pray for my sanity!

Hey, at least your job is party time