Hi all just stopped in quick to see what everyone is up to. I'm doing a 2 tier princess b-day cake for a four year old and each tier is 6 in tall but thats what the mom wanted. One thing I'm kicking myself for is not getting the sps for this cake, delivery is gonna suck! Oh well hold my breath and smile. Hope everyone has a great night!

CakemommyTX- your design is wonderful! What software do you use to draw your designs?

I am working on fondant/gumpaste roses tonight for a 25th ann cake for next weekend. I got the Jem 100mm cutter, and am using the technique shown by Francesca on YouTube. So far it is going very well. The fondant is MFF that I made this week for the first time. I think I will make one more tonight, then head to bed.

d3sc3n7, Ok no more goofing off for me back to this cake.

I don't know if anyone else is still up but I'm finally posting on FNCC!
I had 2 cakes due for tomorrow and I'm aching all over and my eyes are crossing. How do you professionals do it???!!! Still finishing up the 2nd one but it's for my son's 1st Birthday so I don't mind at all.

I'm still up too. Haven't done anything besides wrap my cakes in press n seal. I just discovered my sam's icing is best if used by 9/18 so it is still good . I want to level, fill and get my crumb coat done before taking a nap. I'm going to use the grass tip to cover the cake with the exception of the yellow brick road area so I don't have to worry about getting it smooth. I have no idea why i'm procrastinating, but hopefully it will all work out

I'm still up.
I'm not a pro but I can get more done late at night when there are no interruptions and the phone doesn't ring anymore. Just me, my thoughts, and the tv.
Right now I'm waiting for my buttercream to set up so I can smooth it.

Done with my cake for this week (my first Cake from Hell!), but for next, I have a football helmet b'day cake. It's the flat one in the Wilton's pan. He's an Eagles fan, so the emblem won't be hard ... on the helmet it's just a white eagle wing.

I've got my 10" tier covered, added the drapes and fleur-de-lis. So I'm 1/3 done...still have to cover the 6", cut out the silhouettes, paint, etc...

I'm just not used to staying up late anymore.

I'm still up but not working on a cake. I too love working late at night when the kids are in bed and I just have my music on and my own thoughts. I love my 3 daughters but when they try to help ummmmmmm well let's just say it makes for some very interesting decorations.

I just finished getting the kitchen sort of cleaned! (my least favourite part)....ive had such a horrible week that working on my cakes tonight was all i was looking forward to.

I have three two tiered cake due for Sunday, I have one pretty much done, one covered in fondant and one crumb coated ..so the rest of the work will be done tomorrow night.

One question tho if anyone has made them before. How do you make palm trees? I have tried covering some lil bread sticks with fondant and it looked a little funny and then i just could not the leaves to work at all! soo if anyone has any pointers on those that would be soo great!

Hope everyone is having a great night!

Maybe try pretzel sticks that you have taken the salt crystals off of. Or use Tootsie Rolls candies and smooth several together to get the length you need (you could just use the long one though) then to give it a little extra support add some florist wire inside of the tootsie rolls. Just a thought. Hope this helps. I think I am going to bed now. Night y'all.

Just finished up a birthday cake for tomorrow morning and am about to head to bed. I had to wait for my sis to bring over some viva because I was out and hubby's at work and am up way later than I would have liked.

I just finished my cakes and now I'm thinking how nice it would be if I had a maid or a magic wand to clean my kitchen up. If I had to choose between the two, I would go with the magic wand. Oh most definitely the wand. I must be getting tired because I am just thinking about all the things that I could make happen with that wand.

I got up early to finish a cake for one my supervisors. My daughter and I do volunteer work together and our one of our supervisor just had a birthday.

I got up at three thirty am to work on it. I made the frosting last night. This morning I did the rest. I can't believe it took me three hours to put the cake together. The little octopus with glasses turned out okay I think. I don't think it's good enough to post.

Oh how did the strawberry lemonade cake turn out? That sounds yummmmy!

I had a 90 cupcake tower and 6 inch cutting cake to get all finished. had the flowers, etc already done so just had to bake and frost - was completely happy with it - definitly a first time for me!!! its in my profile pics.

My Friday came Thursday this week...I slept through FNCC.

I delivered a 3 tier cake Friday afternoon for a man who's 90th birthday was being celebrated. Represented on the one cake was:

A bass fisherman (Yes, they specified bass...I was like, if you're not fishing with the man, how do you know what type fisherman he is????)
A bob white quail hunter (yes...specified too)
An Army major
The U.S. Army field artillery patch
A pointer(dog...not stick...not finger)
His favorite meal (pulled pork bbq, red slaw, hush puppies, corn on the cob....yes, specified)
Tomatoes and peppers (that's what he grew in his garden)
Tobacco (the plant/leaves...he picked it when he was younger)
An adding machine( he sold them for many years)
ETA: A swan...there was a funny story behind that...

It had to be delivered more than an hour and a half away....half way there, I began praying nothing goes amok-I forgot my repair essentials tote!

Almost there, I began cussing-I forgot my camera!

It was the BEST DELIVERY/SET-UP EVERRRRRRRRRRRR! They sat him at the head of the table and they all (all that was there at the time...about 25 or so people) gave him a box of tissues and they watched as I finished the cake.....there were hugs and squeals and hand clapping (not applause...more the oh, goody goody type clapping)...It was just awesome!

Now, that I'm over my caffeine withdrawal headache (gotten from too much catch up sleep, I have one for tomorrow.