Oooh Monster High! I would love to see a picture of it! My daughter is crazy for Monster High!
I am very delayed in doing everything! I have a Wilton Demo at work tomorrow and I barely have anything done. Oy!Gonna be a late, late, late one!
It looks like a late night for several people. My cake has a fairly big problem and I have two ideas to fix it. I'm 95% sure the one way will work, but it means practically redoing the whole tier. The other way may or may not work. This is my third late night in a row and I'm getting too tired to think, methinks.
The tier is 4 layers high, with a board in the middle and bubble tea straws for support, to refresh everyone's memory of my ongoing cake saga.
When I put the top two layers on, there was a big gap. I called for He Who Job It Is To Level Cakes And Cut Straws. He said, "I thought there would be a gap." Gee, thanks, mister. (BTW I gave him the leveling job so he hopefully he would, at some point, see exactly why I need an Agbay. The straw job came along when he criticized and made fun of me cutting them, but I digress.) He thought it would be fine so I piped icing in the gap and crumbcoated. That's where my problems began.
Now it appears that the icing does not like the gap and one spot in particular keeps splitting like it's pulling downwards. Now that Mr. Smartypants is asleep, I could take it all apart once more, scrape the whole tier, and level and straw it again. The other idea is to scrape the middle where the gap is, make fondant ropes, and place those in the gap.
Suggestions?
I took mine apart one last time, redid the frosting, and then went to bed hoping for the best. It worked! Woo hoo! Thank you, thank you, thank you for the advice! It's great to have people to help when you're not sure or are just too tired to think.
My kitchen, dining room, and cake room are all cleaned, the cake was a hit, and I managed a two hour nap. I feel hopeful again. LOL
Hope everyone's deliveries went well today!
Had 3 cakes and a bunch of cupcakes due this weekend. Nothing too difficult because we have our house up for sale and have an open house tomorrow!!
It's not the cakes that are difficult to do, but all the cleaning afterwards! Even more this weekend since the whole family is scrubbing the house top to bottom.
Gross, but we found buttercream on the ceiling of the kitchen! Who would think to look up when cleaning after making icing?!
No cakes to do this weekend...I've been doing yard work in the 95 degree heat, so it was a welcome relief not to have to heat up the oven! I have three big cakes to do for next week and my son is graduating Saturday, so I am going to start baking and freezing tomorrow just to be ahead of the game. It will be my first time freezing, so I am a little anxious. Lots of great tips on here...that helps a bunch!
Y'all have a great night! Happy baking!
I'm enjoying the weekend off.
Well, at least from hobby caking. The number of sheet cakes on order (plus a couple of 2-tier grad cakes) at Wal-mart this weekend is daunting. Next weekend won't be any better, but that should be the two worst graduation weekends.
So in the meantime I'm pondering ideas for my mom's birthday on June 13th. And in the long run, designing a super awesome (I hope) Super Mario cake for later this year for my twin cousins, one of whom is coming off of a feeding tube and on to solid food this summer! (That's the hope anyway. The cake is part of her reward for being able to eat on her own.)
Ummeiko that is so sweet of you! I hope everything goes well for your cousin! 
This week I had a last minute graduation cap cake to do. The gals normal cake lady was in the hospital, so she told me what that lady was going to do, and I said yea, I can do it. So this week, boring, and the next two weeks, I hope I can keep my eyes open and my thoughts from jumping off the deep end. I can't say no to people! I do cakes as a hobby, I don't really get paid for my time, usually "barter" for payment, or just covers cost. I work 8-6 every day but one, and that day I get off at noon. Next week: a flirty 30 suprise b-day cake with a "do whatever, I trust ya", 2-1/4 sheet cakes for twins-one wants Ariel and the other Belle, a 2tier stacked baby shower cake, and a 3 tier(very intense design I haven't done yet) damask pattern in B&W on bottom and top tier, lime green in the middle with a black wrap and initial-all this while I work and now have to move my son home from college (taking that day off) and he is 4 hours away-one way! Following week, doing my friends wedding cake (3 tiers) and catering their food for their dinner, also a lady bug cake, and my step mom's surprise 50th cake (and I don't even get to go to the party because of the wedding. So far the week after that, only 1 cake-a wedding cake! Sleep will not be in my vocabulary!
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