For the life of me I cannot measure box sides, figure out cake measurements....and then have the measurements actually MATCH UP on cake decorating day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doing a gift bag cake today and geez if I haven't had to use more royal icing "caulk" to make the sides match up...in some places like a whole half an inch, and that doesn't even count the 3/4" chunk of cake I had to slice off the end and re-ice.

Gracious. No wonder I usually "eyeball" stuff. But making box sides you just have to measure!

Incidentally, to whoever told me to use a sheet of vinyl to dry box sides...THANK YOU! Best gift bag sheets of fondant I've ever made..well...except...they were a bit too small. BUT they were not wrinkly.

I took a class with Browen Weber and she called rulers 'evil sticks'! She said she tries to avoid them and uses her hand or fingers to measure.

The hardest thing for me is making things to dry before I"ve even baked the cake. Guaranteed to NOT work for me. haha.

I've been in that boat too and you know what I do?? I bake the cake, wrap and freeze and then use them as my guide and make templates for what I need to go on them! works every time!

I guess I need to do that. Since I can't for the life of me use a pan measurement and do the math, evidently. So much for my math teaching degree. haha.

lol@ Kita!!

by the way, I absolutely LOVE that cake in your avatar......I don't know how it slipped past me.....it's soooo striking and amazing!! If I had only known you 7 yrs. ago when I got married in South Jersey, girl!!! I would have been calling you!!! (would have been nice to have a CHOICE of cake flavors too! lol)