AHa ha ha, Suzanne, that made me chuckle," some Herbert"

No need to guess what my surname is!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, not offended honestly.xx

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I like a list and I'm a cross it out kinda girl, putting a big fat line through it is very satisfying:)

Tiddy cakes looking good so far.

Daniella? (sorry can't scroll up to check if that right). Don't use trex, there is no need to. The ladies have given some great advice. I would also add that president butter makes N awesome buttercream and it's very white when beaten. Also try paddling you buttercream for a bit before putting it on to eliminate some of the air.

I am stupidly happy about being in favourites, I was quite drunk last night when I saw so I did happy dance when I found out. Had all my best people over for a BBQ and drinks for my birthday, it's was a brill night. Hanging a bit this morning though.

ALol nanny :D

Yep I thought as much, just trying to figure out cake delivery, hair, make up and wedding breakfast timings!!

AThanks you've all been really helpful. Can't wait to try my next batch. I'll have the smoothest buttercream thanks to you guys :-)

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Hi Danielle,

Welcome along. I agree with the others, it is all down to the mixing. I'll confess to not sifting my icing sugar, but I mix it with the K beater for a long time. 5-10 minutes until it is as smooth as smooth can be. Then a lot of patience when applying, use an edge scraper and for the final top scrape/smooth, I heat my metal edge scraper under the hot tap slightly, dry it and then scrape. Generally gives me a semi-perfect finish, although never as perfect as they seem to get on the cake shows I watch. I imagine witchcraft is involved there! ;)

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I'm a line througher! So satisfying.

I have many MANY foibles - I have OCPD - google it for more info, so have to be in control all the time or genuine panic ensues. Everything has to be perfect all the time and silly things, like handwriting, the condition of my diary, etc, all full foul of my control freakness.

AIt amuses me that you're all so anti-Trex. I first used it for a vegan cake and I have to say, I think you can get some good results with it. My BFF is American and much prefers an all-Crisco/Trex frosting and I think either can be lovely so long as you get the flavouring right. I'll always be a ganache man myself though...

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I think it actually makes me a better teacher in the most part, because I am organised, efficient, my marking is usually seen as the standard to aim for (although I spend way too long on it) and so on, but I do find 'out of my control' lessons like art, DT, science experiments, etc. hard. I have to force myself to stay calm and go with the flow...

AMorning all. :-)

I laughed out loud at your Herbert comment Suzanne, I already knew Nanny's surname! :-D

Cake's looking good tiddy, I so would not have the patience!

Hi Danielle, good buttercream advice but I have to admit to never sifting my icing sugar either. And it is a bit bubbly sometimes but not enough to bother me. I use all butter (dragon for me too Kuuushi, it's gone down to £1 in tesco's, permanent new price I think). And I bought the sugar flair whitener, used it once and hated it. It left a greasy film on my bowl and it didn't get the bc white, white either. Oh and I don't know if you use a stand mixer but I use my beater not my whisk.

Shame about the wedding reception m4rvel but glad you had a good time. Sometimes those sort of nights are the best nights aren't they. And I have t googled copd yet but I have to say I feel a bit sorry for your pupils! And how do you put up with our abbreviations, typo's, bad punctuation, spelling, grammar etc?! Don't you want to correct all our posts? :-D

I love lists! I mean really love lists. I'm a put a line through girl but at Christmas I have a tick and line through system- you're all intrigued now aren't you?! Tick when the present is bought, line through when it's wrapped, highlighter pen line through when it's delivered. I even have a list titled "last list" at Christmas. It rarely is the last list tho. I was stressing one year and my husband said "sit down, I'll make you a cuppa and you can write a list of all your lists!" when he started speaking I thought he was genuinely trying to help, by the time he'd finished and I realised he was taking the mick he was too far away from me to catch!

Morning

Tiddy cake is looking great, hope your doing ok.

Mel cupcakes look delish

Danielle welcome to the thread, I use the same ratio of butter to icing sugar as everyone else and never sieve my icing sugar as Like Marvel I use the k beater on my stand mixer and beat it well, If I need to thin it I use a few drops of warm water. Hope you manage to sort it out.

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Morning all.

I laughed out loud at your Herbert comment Suzanne, I already knew Nanny's surname!

Cake's looking good tiddy, I so would not have the patience!

Hi Danielle, good buttercream advice but I have to admit to never sifting my icing sugar either. And it is a bit bubbly sometimes but not enough to bother me. I use all butter (dragon for me too Kuuushi, it's gone down to £1 in tesco's, permanent new price I think). And I bought the sugar flair whitener, used it once and hated it. It left a greasy film on my bowl and it didn't get the bc white, white either. Oh and I don't know if you use a stand mixer but I use my beater not my whisk.

Shame about the wedding reception m4rvel but glad you had a good time. Sometimes those sort of nights are the best nights aren't they. And I have t googled copd yet but I have to say I feel a bit sorry for your pupils! And how do you put up with our abbreviations, typo's, bad punctuation, spelling, grammar etc?! Don't you want to correct all our posts?

I love lists! I mean really love lists. I'm a put a line through girl but at Christmas I have a tick and line through system- you're all intrigued now aren't you?! Tick when the present is bought, line through when it's wrapped, highlighter pen line through when it's delivered. I even have a list titled "last list" at Christmas. It rarely is the last list tho. I was stressing one year and my husband said "sit down, I'll make you a cuppa and you can write a list of all your lists!" when he started speaking I thought he was genuinely trying to help, by the time he'd finished and I realised he was taking the mick he was too far away from me to catch!

I bet Marvel cringes when he sees my bad spelling and puncuation. That made me laugh Maisie about your husband telling you to make a list of all your lists 

Marvel sorry to hear they cancelled the party and your cake didn't get used but at least it didn't go to was and you had a good night. I'm sure all you friends were delighted to be able to dig to the cake 

AOMG m4rvel! I've just read all about my husband!

AHahaha! Lmao Suzanne, I'm nearly wetting myself here!!! :-D I don't think anything could replace good old pen and paper for me tho.

M4rvel I've read you don't have to have every trait to have ocpd, my husband isn't a hoarder (but that's cos "stuff" interferes with his clean, tidy, orderly obsession, and actually he does hoard some things come to think about it). He's not a list writer but I think he has a list in his mind that's he's constantly aware of. Apart from that it's him to a tee. We rib him about his "OCD" all the time but it is only ribbing cos he doesn't do strange things like locking doors 17 times or switching lights on and off. He always says he hasn't got OCD he just likes things done properly. Blimey I could write pages here now, It was like reading a description of my husband, I couldn't believe it!

Awww Tiddy you poor thing, can't the emergency doctor bring you some jabs out or something? Have you stopped taking cake orders now as the attacks are so bad? When do you see nuero?

ANo foxy, they have to be ordered in :) Feeling bit of relief now so have gone in the cake room to take my mind off it. If I sit down I may fall asleep then it will start again so can't do that grr!

Its been a while now so im just hoping this cycle is almost over and I will be ok fir the next two years god willing!

On a lighter note....ive added my third tier and am just about to gazillion blossom it......was seriously thinking about piping all the centres (yup I know) and then entering it for C.I wedding cake comp :) what do we all think? If I do it means I can't add a picture on the tinternet so maybe when its done I can show you all quick and remove it...mmmm

AThat is fab Kathy! Want to do one soon :)

What did you cover the rkt with before sp? I've made some up for spidermans head and was going to cover with white choc.

Thanks Tiddy!  Just SP - Tesco's own!  (An emergency purchase Lol).  I imagine white chocolate would go nicely though. 

Kathy

The cake is gorgeous!!!! 

And going back to little 'foibles' I like to buy a box of 15 eggs, rather than 6 or 12 - because I HAVE to move the eggs around so that the 'pattern' is symmetrical once I've used any.  And it's easier to do with a box of 15!  My husband's been known to move them around just to wind me up!

AGood idea! :)

AAwww, how romantic, its lovely Kathy.

I need to know how to make Rkts.

ATiddy, is your cake real or dummy? Just if it's dummy I'm not sure it could be entered? From my understanding it has to be cake (unless specifically in the brief) and I know the judges cut into a lot last year to check they were actually cake. It was an eye opener walking round and seeing so many disqualified for going outside the brief. They are getting a lot more strict apparently. I could be wrong so do check but it may be that you have to make it all again to enter it. :)