Topsy Turvy Problems - Help With Issues For Upcoming Wedding
Decorating By amy2197 Updated 28 Jun 2011 , 12:32am by josefina20
oh...strange...I'll have to look them up. I've never heard of anything like that before!
They sell them on ebay!
Edna
Edna, that is buttercream with fondant swags?! You truly are a cake Goddess!
Thanks, But I have seen your cakes..you are awesome too!
Yes, Ivory buttercream. The original was in fondant and I was scared for doing the second one in buttercream. But It hold on fine so it doesn't worry me anymore.
Here is the other one I was asked for Valentines Day. I still think it looks better all in white or the last one white on ivory.
Edna
Tonedna,
Wow! You do amazing work! I checked out your web site, too. Simply lovely.
May I ask, do you use the same concept as the "hole" instrctions here at cake central...Using three pans of cake to create one tier and each pan being an inch different in size than the next?
Or do you do yours with two pans of cake, torte each layer, and just have shorter layers. Looking at some of your pictures, maybe you do a little of both?
Tonedna,
Wow! You do amazing work! I checked out your web site, too. Simply lovely.
May I ask, do you use the same concept as the "hole" instrctions here at cake central...Using three pans of cake to create one tier and each pan being an inch different in size than the next?
Or do you do yours with two pans of cake, torte each layer, and just have shorter layers. Looking at some of your pictures, maybe you do a little of both?
To me personally is too much hazzle doing so many size of cakes. I need to move fast at work. Sometimes I have up to 13 weddings a week.
So I use the cakes the same size and carve them. The bottom I cut half inch smaller all around, than the top.
I torte and fill like a regular cake. I use the hole method, but I dont use plastic plates. I like to dowel my cakes from the top and with the plastic plates I can't. Since my cakes travel already finish I feel better doweling them all together.
Thanks so much for the complements..
Edna
I am just like you girls....just sharing bits that I know..thats all..there's quite so much out there to learn!
Edna
tonedna the cakes are beautiful. I know you may get bored because you've done several of them but for us folks at least me if I could get my cakes to look like yours I'd be in heaven. Thanks for sharing.
tonedna the cakes are beautiful. I know you may get bored because you've done several of them but for us folks at least me if I could get my cakes to look like yours I'd be in heaven. Thanks for sharing.
Is basically doing the same designe what bores me. It's a lovely cake, and a difficult one. I just dont want to do it every 2 weeks!..
Edna
Hi Edna,
Your cakes are absolutely gorgeous. I love the fun and elegant look.
I have questions about internal support.
You said that you don't use the plastic separator plates. What are you using between the tiers?
What are the actual supports? (Bubble tea straws, dowels, etc.)
Do you have a whimsical cake tutorial?
Thank you,
Debbie B.
No. I dont have a whimsical tutorial, but I have a video to edit on how I stack my cakes. I will add it soon to Youtube. I use cardboard dowels or wilton plastic ones. If the cake is too tall I use thicker wood dowels.
In between I use regular cardboard covered in wax paper. Since I do the hole and the surface is flat, Is just the same as stacking a regular cake. Except you have to watch that you dont push on the side of the hole that is higher so it wont break.
Maybe soon Ill do a video. I need lots of time though!!!!
Edna
Hi Edna,
Your cakes are absolutely gorgeous. I love the fun and elegant look.
I have questions about internal support.
You said that you don't use the plastic separator plates. What are you using between the tiers?
What are the actual supports? (Bubble tea straws, dowels, etc.)
Do you have a whimsical cake tutorial?
Thank you,
Debbie B.
*waves back at Edna*..Hi there!!.. I see your still turning out all those gorgeous cakes my friend !
*waves back at Edna*..Hi there!!.. I see your still turning out all those gorgeous cakes my friend !
Yeah...they are taking way too much of my free time!..
Edna
Hi Edna,
I am looking forward to your new YouTube demonstration. I appreciate you taking the time to put those together.
I learn so much more when I am able to see the work in progress.
Thank you for all your help.
-Debbie B.
[quote="tonedna"]No. I dont have a whimsical tutorial, but I have a video to edit on how I stack my cakes. I will add it soon to Youtube. I use cardboard dowels or wilton plastic ones. If the cake is too tall I use thicker wood dowels.
In between I use regular cardboard covered in wax paper. Since I do the hole and the surface is flat, Is just the same as stacking a regular cake. Except you have to watch that you dont push on the side of the hole that is higher so it wont break.
Maybe soon Ill do a video. I need lots of time though!!!!
Edna
Oh goody Edna, cant wait for your new Youtube video...I love all the others you have provided as well...Thanks!
Your cakes and videos are awesome
anytime..I share what I do and works for me..hoping people can get something out of it. There are so many good decorators out there.
Edna
I'm dying to try to this type of cake - the hole method seems safer to me, especially when transporting. However just stacking them seems easier, it also appears to make it look more slanted.
I'm dying to try to this type of cake - the hole method seems safer to me, especially when transporting. However just stacking them seems easier, it also appears to make it look more slanted.
I know Edna has the hole method down pat, but I won't risk again. In traveling, the tier above may jiggle just enough to crack that dam.
And it takes more time to carve the hole, more work than I want.
But my main goal is to create cakes that are as gorgeous as Edna's! I've ended up in the mommy niche, so my cakes are pretty much all kids cakes and baby shower cakes
I am planning a topsy turvy right now. I watched this youtube video and i think the visual helped me....
Sara
edited because I can't type
saramachen thank you for sharing about youtube. It makes sense now. Except I probably will not do the hole either. I had books and I still had trouble I'm more the visual kinda of girl. Now I can't wait to do this cake.
Ok, ladies, this conversation has instilled a healthy fear in me. I am (at this moment) baking a practice 3 tiered cake to carve up, ice in buttercream, stack & dowel a combination of macsmoms & sarsi's way, and drive around town to see what happens. All in the name of not having my first wedding cake disaster, Wednesday, March 4, 2009.
Macsmom, I think I can get the bubble straws from the local coffee shop tomorrow. If I do three tiers, (6-9-12) how many bubble straws do you recommend in each tier? I ask only because I personally probably over dowel to be safe. But with these cakes being so small in diameter, I don't want to lose more servings than necessary.
Thanks so much!
saramachen thank you for sharing about youtube. It makes sense now. Except I probably will not do the hole either. I had books and I still had trouble I'm more the visual kinda of girl. Now I can't wait to do this cake.
That's kind of the same way I do it. Except I don use thin wood dowels. I dont think they arevery stable. And sometimes I prefer to put the fondant first and cut the hole after, that way I dont have to deal with the hole changing on me cause of the added fondant. I do only 4 layers of cake so mine tends to be shorter..
Edna
Saramachen - Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had actually been looking at that cake in the romantic contest and thought it was beautifully done.
I think I'm definitely going to have to do a few trials to see what works for me!!!
Hello Everyone,
I wanted to let you know I went ahead this weekend and made a trial cake. Three tiered 6-9-12,buttercream iced, stacking method, no hole.
I used the tea straws and it worked beautifully. thanks to all of you for coaching me through. I carved and iced the cake again today and will decorate and assemble for the wedding tomorrow. I will post pictures tomorrow night. thank you!
I delivered my topsy turvy cake last nigtht and it received rave reviews. You can checkit out in my gallery here at cake central. Thanks so much to each of you for contributing your input and techniques so that I could pull off this cake for this wedding!
I tried my first tilted cake yesterday, I have a order for a 4 tier wedding cake in August. Time to start practicing. I used the tutorial that is posted on CC by BKeith. It was very detailed and walks you through step by step. Many thanks for such a detailed tutorial B Keith. Here is a pic of my first try.
zdebssweetsj You did an excellent job for the first time. I must be real slow because I could not figure out from Bkeith tutorial. I do better by dvds not reading instructions. I just now figure out how to do them I will pratice one soon.
I delivered my topsy turvy cake last nigtht and it received rave reviews. You can checkit out in my gallery here at cake central. Thanks so much to each of you for contributing your input and techniques so that I could pull off this cake for this wedding!
Cakecakelady you did one heck of a job! I love it. The middle and bottom tier are my fav. I'd love to know how you did the patchwork quilt technique. Once again, fantastic job.
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