How Did You Learn How To Do Sculpted Cakes?

Decorating By fragglerock1 Updated 1 Apr 2007 , 9:36pm by mdutcher

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fragglerock1 Posted 31 Mar 2007 , 12:24am
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Did you take a class, did you teach yourself? If you took a class, where did you take it? If you taught yourself, how did you do it (books, videos, trial and error)? I look at the cakes in the gallery and I think how in the world am I going to go from my pathetic course I cake to these beautiful sculpted cakes. And some of you have only been decorating cakes for a few months! How in the world do you do it?

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Steady2Hands Posted 31 Mar 2007 , 12:54am
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Self taught with lots of advice from CC members thumbs_up.gif Thanks CC thumbs_up.gificon_biggrin.gif

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mjs4492 Posted 31 Mar 2007 , 1:02am
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Ditto to Steady2Hands!

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cakecre8tor Posted 31 Mar 2007 , 1:04am
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I have to agree with Steady2Hands...I am self taught...I spent way to much time reading CC posts and I have some of Debbie Brown's books - she is awesome for carving and modeling. Oh yeah and lots of trial and error icon_cry.gificon_lol.gif

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bellejoey Posted 31 Mar 2007 , 1:06am
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Self taught and steady hands also. Just make sure you shave off a little at a time..the first one I did looked like someone came to it with a chainsaw! LOL! Just lots of practice and a really good serrated knife. icon_smile.gif

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kjgjam22 Posted 31 Mar 2007 , 1:26am
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wow...everyone self taught. i must put all fear aside and give it a whirl.

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kbochick Posted 31 Mar 2007 , 6:02am
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I did my first one from a Debbie Brown book. The rest just from books & hints from here. icon_smile.gif

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bcake1960 Posted 1 Apr 2007 , 5:12am
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I just took a deep breath and started cutting. LITTLE AT A TIME
My fav knife... one of my electric knife blades Ha! itworked great also the boneing (sp)knife out of my knife set. I just kept using different knifes for different effects.. oh a frozen cake works great too! Give it a try lots of fun and you will be very proud of yourself for trying.. YOU CAN DO IT!

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SweetResults Posted 1 Apr 2007 , 9:28pm
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Self taught here too - just grab a knife and go for it! What have you got to lose? icon_wink.gif

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mdutcher Posted 1 Apr 2007 , 9:36pm
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I'm self-taught. The very first cake I ever decorated was a carved choo choo train cake for my son's first birthday! I was hooked from that point on. I love to find a picture of what I want and size it to scale (I break out my little mini tape measurer and get exact measurements) That's how I do almost all my carved cakes.

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