Food Network Challenge - Wedding Cakes
Decorating By DelightsByE Updated 12 Jun 2006 , 6:56pm by ChrisJ
I should have been taking notes because now I have a million questions.
First of all - what was the freeze spray used for (on the winning cake whose name I've forgotten)
What kind of wires are used to make the little things which shoot off the cakes?
I'm pretty sure the freeze spray is that canned air you use with electronics, but i've never used it. you can get it at office supply stores. DH thought he was being smart one day and sprayed it on my leg. That stuff is cold!!!!
the wire is probably florist wire. Not sure which guage though.
OK the freeze spray did kind of look like this can I have sitting here next to my PC
Florist wire do you think? Is that food safe? And where do they get it so straight? All I see around here is paddle wire. Should I look harder? Michaels perhaps?
Michaels carries the straight pieces- maybe 14-16" long? At my Michaels, it's near the vases, and not near the silk flowers. They have different guages.
These people are professionals, I'm sure they know what they're doing...they go by very strict rules when they are in these type of competitions. 
I only caught the last 15 minutes of it ... was decorating a cake but I figure it will repeat itself. I just loved Marina's (sp?) cake but was confused when she used rubbing alcohol to quickly dry her chocolate pearls that she had put into some lustre dust. You can do that and still eat them?
ewwwwww.......are you sure it was "rubbing" alcohol???? Lots of times they refer to vodka, everyclear, any type of alcohol they may be using just simply as "alcohol" as for the cold spray....I believe he was attatching the flower petals individually with melted sugar and sprayed them so it would harden quickly!
For food network stuff they probaby had it in a different container. When I did some stuff for them I could not have my Pepsi bottle in sight of the camera and they taped all the labels on boxes of sugar cubes also. I belive it was probably drinking alcohol.
For food network stuff they probaby had it in a different container. When I did some stuff for them I could not have my Pepsi bottle in sight of the camera and they taped all the labels on boxes of sugar cubes also. I belive it was probably drinking alcohol.
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Doug wrote: "re: alcohol
common in professional cooking to repackage all kinds of liquids into plastic squeeze bottles for easier use, eaiser dispensing and SAFTEY...don't need broken glass when working w/ food.
for it to be edible she would have to use some type of bar spirits that doesn't have a pronounced/identifiable flavor (vodka the most likely candidate, tho' everclear would work too) "
Thanks for the clarification - I was totally confused 
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