I cant get onto Nicoles forum. It keeps saying it doesnt exist, what am I going to do with the rest of the day???
It does not exist, I even PMed Nicole. If you get on her main page the forum is no longer there 
I was just about to ask where you guys get the brown paper for fruit cakes we were talking about earlier? and could not find the page any longer ...
Hey guys it should be fine I just went there myself. Because it's free it's a touch glitchy sometimes, even I have to click the link two or three times and then it loads properly, although I do believe freewebs are doing some upgrading so it might have been that but I swear I just went and had a look at some responses, and it worked.
OK, I just went to have another look before I posted this, I swear 5 minutes ago it let me look at some new messages, and it's doing it to me as well and actually I logged in and noticed some dodgy stuff going on ie my last photo isn't showing on my photo page etc, I think it's to do with their upgrades, I will keep trying to sort it out, just keep trying to get in!
http://www.freewebs.com/simplyirresistablecreations/forum.htm
Try here girls, I think they've messed some stuff around with their upgrade, a little while ago I noticed that it started saying www1.freewebs etc, but even I think they migrated their stuff somewhere else and are now migrating it back because the www1 pages get the don't exist message, so try the above link. Annoying but hey what do you expect from a free site! 
Their premium packages are not expensive at all, if we do seem to use the site alot I will be happy to look into upgrading if we find we would like our own photo area, but that's down the line.
Obviously I want our site to be used in conjunction with CC not instead of, there's an enormous amount of good advice and inspiration here, I just wanted us and I think so did some you guys to have our own Aussie area, where we don't have to explain our humour and can swap Aussie suppliers, tips, ingredients, ideas etc.
Cheers m'dears
Nicole
Nicole, if I press on your web page in the profile and look on the left hand side on the menu, there is no "forum" menu option any more ... It may be saved in your cookies and still displays the last shown page to you ???!! It surely does not work for me, doesn't matter how many times I try 
. Will see if others are luckier 
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Yana, I just clicked on Nicoles link above and it went straight to forums, but you are right it is not on the left handside of the page anymore.
Cheryl
Wow! By the time I read all the posts from the night before, I just about have to get off the computer and do more work! 
Gingerkitten said
hey curvy... you could get cream horns and make your own out of gumpaste or something like that... i have cream horns, you could just roll it out and wrap it round and trim to size before it goes hard. then remove from cone.
Does that sound do-able and in the budget??
I had never heard of cream horns (had to google them) 
it's a great idea but they don't look big enough. I use the waffle cones you get in coles/woolies and they are a diameter of about 10cm or so.
I emailed the manufacturer and he suggested using a brush on "food wax" .
Does anyone know what a food wax is and where i could get some?
Oh Fran that stinks about people stealing photos.
Have you tried watermarking the photos.............. would that help to stop the problem that you have.
Cheryl
Hi Cheryl,
I used to have my photos watermarked, and quite frankly I hate the way it hides the details, so I removed them all. That being said, some of the people out there doing this stuff will use watermarked photos as well!!!
I figure that if they're going to do it, a little watermark isn't going to stop them.
I had a friend send me a link recently to a CC member's website, and she had one of my cakes on her site. 
She is a really talented designer and has heaps of her own designs, when I questioned her she removed it immediately and said someone had sent her the photo of my cake, asked her to replicate it and hadn't had enough time to photograph her own version so she put my photo up instead!!!! She apologised and removed it but still, I wouldn't dream of taking someone else's wedding cake picture and putting it on my website because someone asked me to replicate one of their cakes! I'll take a photo of my own cake and post that! Some people are just plain stupid! 
Sorry, I'm ranting, back to the cake room for Franny now 
Ooh! That is one subject that makes me look like a cartoon figure with steam coming out my ears! 
I too removed all but one photo here on cc because I was so tired of seeing websites illegally using other's pictures.
Not that my cakes are anywhere in the realm of yours Fran (I wish they were!! 
one has dreams to aim for anyway!)
I get so cranky that the americans mostly seem to think it's okay to use someone else's cake photo if they nicely credit to the creator. I am a big meanie and think that they shouldn't do it at all because it is copyright infringement and illegal.
Yay, on a brighter note, I have just finished my last cake for the week!
I feel like doing the old fashion clocking off on the roster clock! (we used to have to do that at Ansett reservations many many moons ago! )
I still have to try this weekend to create a gumpaste shoe using Nati's instructions, for a breast cancer shoebox cake I am donating to a "field of pink women" day.
Wish me luck, cos I think i'll need it!
I cant get onto Nicoles forum. It keeps saying it doesnt exist, what am I going to do with the rest of the day???It does not exist, I even PMed Nicole. If you get on her main page the forum is no longer there
I was just about to ask where you guys get the brown paper for fruit cakes we were talking about earlier? and could not find the page any longer ...
Yana, I don't use the brown paper method any more - I've found that it can affect the size and shape of the cake a little. I line the tin with glad bake or similar, then fold up newspaper (about 4 leaves deep on a smaller cake, up to 8 leaves deep on a large cake) Then pin it on the outside of the tin. Also, pages under the tin.
That said, I really like Fran's idea of baking in a cardboard box!
Fran, do you shape the box to fit the cake tin, or do you allow an "air space" around the tin?
Thank you, OzCookie!
I like the idea but afraid to use the cardboard. I have gas oven and the big tin I use to make 12 miniature cakes at once comes just about to the edge where the flame is. I actually bought those maggie strips and used them for tasting cake 6", but over the time it sat in the oven the strip dried out and got slightly browned. No more trying that for fruit cake .... Th esame would go fo rthe newspaper I'm afraid, too dengeros. Hm, may concider shortenning the time by 30 minutes and placing the tin on the lower level to stop it from getting a bit dark on the edges. Will try it next weekend.
That said, I really like Fran's idea of baking in a cardboard box!
Fran, do you shape the box to fit the cake tin, or do you allow an "air space" around the tin?
Elena, I use a standard 12 inch box for most cakes, and then I've made up a "custom" box by cutting down two boxes and sticking them together for the larger cakes and also so I can bake more than one cake at a time, the more air around the cake the better, the tins should not touch the box or each other for best results.
Granulated sugar is ordinary sugar out here, the american equivilent for our caster sugar to them is superfine sugar. This is according to the link below.
http://www.foodsubs.com/Sweeten.html#granulated%20sugar
Cheryl
I am just about to go to bed.... exhausted. Finished my littlle cakes for wedding. 63 mini hearts + 2 for bride & groom slightly larger.... + 8 for the children's table.... so 73 all together. I just have to put ribbon around base of each one... but that can wait until tomorrow... wedding isn't until Sunday. I feel so good that these are finally finished. Will obviously post photo.... once I take them tomorrow!
I did take the odd break to catch up on you all and follow conversation...had to be careful not to get icing sugar all over the keyboard!!
you poor thing toni! Cant wait to see the pics! Sleep well!
thats a topper in my gallery, its actually styrofoam balls. i put it on top of a sheet. that was my first experience with gumpaste - homemade! What a nightmare! but it did look divine!
this is my current project
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b111/littlegingerkitten/Photo62.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b111/littlegingerkitten/Photo64.jpg
its going on top of my friends wedding cake... hes a biker and shes his moll!
Hi everyone, I have finally come out from under the pile of fondant I've been under all week, I've delivered my final cake for the week and now I'm looking forward to a week with only one cake!!!!!!!!!!! Yay for me!!!!!!
So how has everyone's weekend been? Whatcha all been doing?
Well, this morning I will deliver my cakes... up early due to my darling son jumping into my bed and then throwing up... he's not sick.. said he had a hair in his mouth...
well, he just did it again.. so maybe he does have a virus. THANK GOD cakes are finished and I have none this week!!!!
Apart from that my sister leaves Monday, so we will be feeling her absence after her being with us for 5 months. At least I won't have to wait my turn for the computer now! I will miss her though.
Last night the mother of the bride called to add 3 more children to list. I had 6 leftover heart cakes... but my sister kids had eaten... leaving just two....... luckily I had some cupcakes... so I pulled out a heart cutter and luckily it worked out ok. So after putting everything away... I had to pull it out again... at least it was only for 3. I then re-did the ones for the bride & groom... the silver initial looked more grey.. and I just wasn't happy to send them like that.... so I covered them in flowers instead.
will post them later... need to take one more photo... and when I woke it was still a little dark.
Toni xxxxxxx
Hello fellow aussies. I am fairly new to cake decorating but have had a few orders so far. I can't believe how addictive cake decorating is. I dream about it at night and its all I think about during the day. Does anyone else suffer the same insanity? I look forward to chating to you all
boring, my sister has decided that she will be having it at home now. So I get to bake and decorate at home now, in April. So i need to do cake for 110 people. Blah. Regretting saying yes to that!
How big would a cake have to be to feed 110 peeps?
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