New To Decorating And Need Help With Timing Of When To Start
Decorating By KaraAnn Updated 18 Aug 2006 , 2:15am by MommaLlama
Hi, it's me again! I am doing a baby shower cake for my SIL shower on Aug 26th. As posted in another post, if yall have the Wilton 06 yr book look on pg 73 and that is the cake i am doing, if you don't have it I am doing a cake with a fondant icing and fandant baby clothes line on it. My questions are as follows:
1) When to start cake baking
2) When do I cutout the clothes line and clothes
3) I have BC icing that will have been in my frig for about 3 wks at the time of the shower, is it still good?
4) When can I make royal icing(for cookies) and how do I store it?
This is what I was thinking:
Make the cake Thurs. Fri ice and decorate it. I also have cookies that I am doing so I want to do something once a day that way it won't be so over whelming. I also have a 5, 2 1/2, and 9 month old in the house(stay at home mom and all boys) so time is limited!!
Thanks,
KaraAnn
Hello,
I always bake on thursday, ice on Friday and decorate friday night ( after hubby is home to watch the kids). That way if anything goes wrong I have a little time on Saturday to fix it. I stay home also, I have three boys 6,3,3 and we added a girl about a year and a half ago. The clothesline cake is very cute, it has a lot of detail, you might want to make sure you have plenty of time to make and put those on. I made a cake similar and I made the detail ahead of time, maybe a week or so. They dry, so anything that needs to bend at all should be last, so it won't crack. Mine took a lot longer than I expected( it's the Girls Rule 16 cake in my photos) so it was a good thing I started early.
OMGosh!!! Your cakes are soo pretty!! BTW I don't care if JEsus can down here and told me I was having a girl I would still pass!! What is your recipe for the strwaberry creamcheese filling? I am not doing the buttons and the whole top layer. The border is going to be BC icing piped booties. Should I start cutting out the clothes now? I'm not doing the bibs on the clothesline either. The shower is next Sat. the 26th. Thank you for all of your advice!!
KaraAnn
Hi Kara,
I always do ahead what ever I can in advance..Any figures, flowers etc..
give it a good four days to dry. Baking can be done three days ahead.
Also fillings like buttercream can be refrigerated as long as you
whip it right before using. Sounds really a good cake coming.
Good luck 
I would say that you could work on the clothes line items throughout the next week. I agree with the process of MammaLlama, as far as baking, icing, and decorating. I have a 3 year old and a 2 year old and work full time. So when I do them it's generally in the middle of the night, however, there are several times that I have done cakes all day Saturday. I just make a rule that the kitchen is off limits and know that my house will most likely be destroyed by the end of the day. I make sure to clean as I go in the kitchen so I don't have that to worry about and clean the rest of the house on Sunday. Good luck and I can't wait to see it!
KaraAnn, the cream cheese filling is just regular cream cheese icing w/ fresh strawberries that i put in the food processor. It just needs more powdwered sugar to keep from being too thin. It's very yummy.
We adopted all of our children. We thought we were finished with the three boys (you know how three boys can be) but they called one day with a baby girl, two weeks old and needed a mommy, i couldn't pass her up. It turns out she is the sweetest baby ever!!! Life is a little busy though.
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