San Bernardino....Hesperia to be exact, but remember you said you wouldn't tell anyone!
I grew up in Moreno Valley and used to hang out a lot in Placentia, and Hunington Beach.
Just love So Cal!

I swear, I won't tell a soul you live in Hesperia!

I have not lived in SoCal my whole life, but I have lived here a lot. and now I'm here for good. Or until I win the lottery and move to Europe and become a master chocolatier

Ya'll don't know how good you have it...because of the economy, I have had to downsize and get rid of my kitchen help, the dog, cats, and feret. Now I can't make my MIL that 'special' cake

When I saw there is an animal cake contest going on now, I thought about the road kill cake someone mentioned. lol

you could totally still make that special cake. Just borrow someone's pets and kids. Or get some pets off one of the unscrupulous breeders off craigslist

I have a few suggestions. Start with, you need to leave you eggs out to get them to room temp, they whip better that way. The longer the better, right. Save time, crack them now, and way a few weeks to make sure that they are nice and warm. Don't cover them but maybe with a little of the grease you fried the catfish in for dinner to prevent the eggs from drying out. Save the grease for the cake as well. KY the pans, or if your out, try the pre done Trojan for the applicator. I know you don't want to get the kitchen dirty, don't use the sink, I am sure if you leave out the dog dish you can collect enough water for free. If you are running short of flour, use the dust from the vacumn. You must have vacumned the kitchen carpet sometime before and that must have some flour in it. The icing you have from that cake last year you never did use, now is the time to use it. If it is not enough, just use the frying grease and make the greasecream icing. If you need any further thoughts, please don't hesistate to ask.

is it wrong that the Trojan comment totally made me think of the new fun-sized Trojan girl toy? And that THAT would make a GREAT immersion blender?

a beaver







yeah.... I went there....

Thanks guys for the ideas...I did bring in the neighborhood mangy mutt so I could get what little hair he has left for the fondant figures. And I went to the other neighbor's house that has chickens and found some eggs she had thrown out cause they had been cracked but the egg parts were still in there kinda. The catfish grease worked really well along with the vacumm dust...i mean flour.

cocorun, I still have a catfish in the bathtub. You could try him to mix the cookies, cause when you take him out of the water, he moves alot

O.M.G. You girls have gone off the deep end. Jly, you have finally surpassed the comments made in the laundry thread.

not me, some one else has the new fangled emersion blender idea. I am innocent, pure as the driven snow. Your right, I need to get cleaned up though, I suppose I should go and do some laundry.

I'd like to mention that my ''forum superstar'' status and my ridiculously high post count give me the exclusive right to tell you how much your very first post to the forums sucks. I'd also like to mention that I know every single thing there is to know about cake decorating, and I hope you die for asking which airbrush to buy and whether Fat Daddio's or Magic Line are better because everyone KNOWS that Magic Lines are better and that the Aztek airbrush from Bear Air is the ONLY airbrush that is acceptable for airbrushing your cakes.

that shows what you know, you get the toxic canned air and paint for model cars at wal-mart. That leaves the best taste on the cake. But that is for newbies like me that don't know any better. We can only wish to be an experienced humble goddess like you some day

Also, when you all make said cake and upload it to the galleries, please neglect to add any keywords at all.

Can someone please post a really good white cake recipe! I don't want to try the easy one posted at the bottom of the page, I want at least 15 different versions if possible and can you include references??

30 mins later------different poster----I need a really, really, really good white cake recipe and it cannot be any of the previously posted versions! Also, can you please hurry, the cake is due in 30 mins.

so sorry to take so long to get back with you. Go to the chain store place that gets the cakes in frozen and use that. If that won't work for you, get a better plan! Please stop posting these crazy requests and demand immediate response from people who might know. What do you think this is, a forum to learn!

I would like to know the "best" recipe for a cake and the "best" filling with the "best" tasting icing. The fact that "best" is different for each person is irrevelant.... I don't want to work it and find out what's "best" for me .... so I want all of you to figure out what I like and don't like and then just tell me what "the best" is!

new "glue" for sugar decor

the algae scum on the bottom of my pool. It's free!

Yall are so funny!! you made my day better.Now im running late b/c I read everything at one time.

Who needs a messy 'ol air brush set. Just stock up on that spray hair coloring at Halloween, works great, and comes in so many colors. If you can't find a specific color then just use spray paint, hey it will help keep the color from smudging right?

I actually made a roadkill cake once. Funny story... lady told me it was for their monthly roadkill party... her high society pals like to get together once a month and they make the nastiest looking food they can come up with. My tire tracks weren't that great, but this was one of my first cakes, so I've improved a lot since then. I'd love to do another one.

that's high-larious... the cake AND the roadkill food

OMGOSH, I love your Road Kill cake...too cute and funny!..Great job!

I wanna make one now!!!

Mel- that cake is too funny! But, is it just me or do high society and roadkill sound as if they do not belong in the same sentence? Two great thing that don't go so great together... . Anyway... just saying.

No doubt... that's the funniest part. They are a bunch of very rich couples, and they like to do crazy stuff. Fun!

Too Funny!!! We should get together one of these days (years) and do something like that. It'd be a blast!!!