Thank You Cake Central Members! From A Newbie
Decorating By crgsnbrown Updated 1 Aug 2006 , 1:35pm by 4kids
I have been looking at your beautiful cakes and reading all of your wonderful posts for a couple of weeks now. This is my first post, and I am a suuuppper newbie to cake decorating. Until I started reading here I used undoctored cake mixes and can frosting ( hangs head in shame lol ) I LOVE looking at beautifully decorated cakes, and usually order from bakeries for my children's birthdays, but I really want to learn how to make a decent cake on my own. Well today is my husband's birthday, and I decided to take the recipe for the crusting cream cheese frosting to the store and try it out. We both could not believe how good it was! and instantly vowed to never buy the canned stuff again lol I also tryed out the VIVA method, and got the smoothest frosting of my life on the first try with zero skills lol Now my cake would still make most of you cringe lol but for me it was a big accomplishment and I learned it all just from browsing around here at CC. I just wanted to say thanks for showing me the way lol
Welcome!! I'm sure your cake looked just fine. You should have seen some of my first cakes, it did not take long to get the hang of it and I still have some off days.You get some wonderful ideas from this site. I made a cake yesterday to take to a birthday party, it was milk chocolate cake filled with cookies and cream filling, and iced in butter cream dream. My SIL asked me how do you come up with this stuff and I said Cake Central Baby!! 
I second that! I too am very new at cake decorating and have to thank the cake central members for all of their inspiration and helpful information! I do have a question though. How can I find out what all of these acronyms mean (ie, VIVA; MMF - I think that stands for marshmallow fondant; etc)? I'm already addicted to this site and love looking at all of the great cakes! Thanks to all of you!
WE ALL LEARNED TO CRAWL BEFORE WE WALKED-and everyone falls once in a while-noone is perfect and the fact that you tried something new and love it and it was for DH makes it that much better!!! Welcome to CC and we all look forward to seeing you blossom in the forum!!!! There are a lot of talented people and more to come on board-we are all hear to share and support!! "Jump on in-the water is fine!!!"
Congratulations!! I am new to this sight also,been reading and looking at photos and finally decided to jump in and post a few of my cake photos,which is a big deal for me cause i always see all the flaws and never think their very good myself..But i am always learning and this is a great place to learn!!
Hey, we all had to start somewhere, didn't we? And most of us are still learning. That is what is so great about this site. Everyone is so helpful, it's like having your own team of experts at your fingertips!
Welcome to the club!!!! You will be turning out beautiful cakes in no time, AND We want to see pictures!!!!!
Welcome to cake central. I loce it here so much. I am still learing stuff here on a daily basis.
Here is a link for acronyoms used here a cake central
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-2926.html
Happy Baking
Monica
Welcome! I am sure you will love to be here. This is the magical place and you will fell in love with this great site as I am. This is very friendly site. All peoples are very helpful and they will encourage you on your each and every decorative step.
Welcome once again.
Nitu
subaru,I just wanted to tell you i love your frog baby shower cake! My mom loves frogs and i would love to use your idea for her upcoming b-day cake?
Thank you Monica! That's exactly what I needed! I look forward to learning many things from this site. The members are absolutely wonderful!
Your very welcome. & I agree that everyone here is absolutely wonderful. 
Welcome. I have done cakes for years, but need fine tuning and am trying to do something new each time. I am doing my first fondant tomorrow, using the recipe from this site. It is for my adopted granddaughter so it is important to me. Little ones are rare in our family so have to do good Not that she will care. Only the NeNe does. We will see what happens. Again welcome, hope you visit the site as often as I do.
Hello and Welcome to all you newbies! So happy you are here! You are going to learn and you are going to teach, and you are going to love it all! 
I do have a question though. How can I find out what all of these acronyms mean (ie, VIVA; MMF - I think that stands for marshmallow fondant; etc)?
Viva is not an acronym, it is a name brand of soft, strong, textureless paper towels. A very, very useful, and indispensible in my opinion, tool for cake decorating. It is used for creating a faux fondant finish on frosting.
Enjoy!
I am also new, and already I have learned so much. Just tried the MMF recipe - easy to work with, doesn't smell like the bought stuff (I didn't taste it), and much easier than having to run to the baking supply store to get it (or sending DH to get it!!). also followed instructions for BC roses - I never made one yet that even looked like a rose, and these came out beautiful on the first try. I have also tried out many techniques that I saw on this site, and I'm getting better. Can't wait to try them out on a real cake later this week!!
Thanx a ton to all the friendly, helpful people at CC!!
(I'm not so sure my DH agrees, as I'm always on the computer, I can't stop looking at all your cakes LOL)
Welcome to CC, you will love it here. Unfortunately we have not found an antidote for the addiction! Have fun!
Welcome to all of the newbies!! Cake decorating is so much fun! It's even better when you can share it with all of your CC buddies! Just a word of caution ... now that you have discovered this website, you will be spending A LOT more time on the computer!!!!!
I am new to decorating as well. I decorated my first cake about 6 months ago, just something I saw in a book at walmart and thought to myself...Why Not!!! I'm always looking for something to let me get creative. I haven't had any classes, I found this site a couple weeks ago and I have already learned so much by reading other ppls posts. I can't believe how addicting this site is!!! I want to thank everyone for posting advice and sharing so many pictures of beautiful and creative cakes, it makes me want to work even harder to make my cakes just as great.
Brookie
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