Thanks leah_s.
Next time I'll be more patient...but for now I have a bowl of toxic royal icing! I'm afraid to see what color it will turn to in a few hours! Love Friday Night Cake Club, usually I'm a lurker seeing what the pros are doing!

leah_s we were thinking the same

Not sure how big the head needs to be, but I saw a demo at our ICES meeting of "gum ball babies". The woman in Indy who does this had the technique published in a cake magazine. But she uses HUGES gumballs (some are just NOT designed to fit in a human mouth!) as the center and wraps fondant/gumpaste around them. WAY less drying time.

Anyway ... thought it might be an idea, even for a future project.

Slow night for me tonight - just 1 simple cake due tomorrow. Next week is my busy week but I am able to do a lot of prep beforehand.

I'm going to attempt to make popcorn cupcakes with the help of Azterp's tutorial:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-623489.html

Yeah, I always have a couple of boxes of rkt on hand in the pantry. Whipped some out last night to make a mini football helmet. Worked really well!

Good evening, I am working on 1-3 tier, 1- purse and high heel cake, and one birthday with a peace sign...all for tomorrow

I'm gonna go get some of that sleep stuff.

"Carry on!"

"Make it work!"

Luv that Tim Gunn.

I can't get the ready made rkt in my small town, so I have to make mine but that is what I used for the hat and ball in my only photo I have posted

ok new cake is in the oven, with the oil. I need to stop cooking in the dark. See I dim the lights in my house so the kids can go to sleep and once asleep then I can start. But I wanted to just get to it and that what I get. So no more baking in the dark I'll just have to wait until they are asleep.

But this is funny

AnnaJo, you have to be my daughter from another life, you sound like me

Tatorchip - know of any good cake stores around my area?? I moved to LA not too long ago and can't find any.

Well just finished the finished up a tombstone Over the Hill cake, red velvet cake for sampling, and a female naughty school girl cake. (well finished it last night but had to to some touch ups tonight)......

Tatorchip, I'm still new at this and I'm trying to find what works best for me. I would love to make this my business by next year, but with the kids is hard at times. But thanks, maybe you are my baking mom?

in Baton Rouge Korensmommy

Tatorchip,
Have you tried Targil's up in Opelousas? http://www.targil.com
That's all I've found so far. Where is SurLaTable?
Next time your in Lafayette, stop by for a cupcake!

everytime i do a cake, i remember why i do cookies. just finished a fancy nancy cake for my daughters 6th birthday tomorrow

Wow! Friday night cake club! I was already addicted to cc but this is even better! Here I lie in bed on my itouch surfing the forums for new stuff. I have a small cake with a cupcake tower due tomorrow night so I took tonight off! Busy cake week and I was ready for a break!

Hi ladies,

All I'm working on tonight is a couple dozen cupcakes that I'm trading to someone for an antique wedding dress that's beyond repair for normal use, for my daughter to use as a Halloween costume

How's that for strange? Mostly it's a lesson for my daughter about working for the things she gets...we molded chocolate cameos and teapots for toppers.

I'm working on a 4 tier anniversary cake. Crumbcoating done, in the fridge.

Getting ready to make a batch of Michelle's Fondant. I made my first batch last week, thought it was good. Have been working on flowers with it all week. It was off-white, but the recipe says it will be, so thought nothing of it. I made another batch tdday, and next to the first, it is pure white!!

I know I didn't let the hot mixture cool enough last week. I also used PS from Aldi's. Today I did let everything cool, and used PS from Sam's. Would those differences have affected the color so much?

So I first thought to mix them together, but then decided to just make more, and save the first for coloring for another project. Better get it going!!!

Texas_Rose is she going to be a monster bride or a bride, my daughter went one year as a monster bride

Kneadacookie, your cake is beautiful!

Tonight I am working on an oval strawberry shortcake, and making some gumpaste flowers and gelatin butterflies for a birthday cake due tomorrow. Its gonna be a late night!

Hello all.

I just got home from delivering a dairy-free Storm Trooper cake. It was for a girl I work with and she'd wanted to come pick it up at 7:30 tomorrow morning, when she got off work, midnights. Since I've eaten far too much icing to fall asleep at a decent hour, I figured I'd drop it off for her at work and let myself sleep in tomorrow. Yay! And she paid me $5 more than I'd quoted her, so yay again!

Tomorrow I've got a fairly simple cake for a Mexican fiesta party - white 8" round with cacti around the side and chili peppers on top. DH made me custom cactus and pepper cookie cutters last night, so my fondant work should be a breeze. This one's pre-paid in full, with a $5 tip (I really have to raise my prices.. everyone keeps over-paying me!! )

Lots of good caking, nice weather, my dog, who was sick all week, is 100% back to normal and I got to say hi at Friday Night Cake Club - great day for me! Now .. bed! Nite all.

Anyone still awake? Tonight I'm working on NOTHING and it feels so good to have a break finally! I'm going to take a shower and hit the sack so I can get plenty of rest for the upcoming week when I do have a bunch of stuff to work on!

Have a great weekend and I hope all your customers love your kick-@ss cakes!!