Well the cake turned out pretty good, Tasty,, very thin icing on top i cant beleive how thin the icing is on the top , but the pudding was a nice amount wasnt to thin, ill have to upload a photo of the cake, kinda impressed i have to say LOL
Hope you all have a Great Monday

The top of the cake looks really good!

When your icing is too runny like that, you should add powdered sugar instead of cornstarch. Buy a bag and keep it on hand for frosting emergencies You can also mix some scraps from leveling the cake with a little frosting and make a thick frosting dam to hold the pudding in...good way to use the scraps.

Hum never though to put crumbs back on the cake usually trying to keep crumbs out of cake, I would have used powder sugar but dont have it , only have cornstarch , thank you very much for your opinions, it really helps muchly appreciated, how long u been cake decorating ?

Lovely roses on the top. Nothing like something homemade for Fathers and Mothers.

Enjoy your cake decorating journey!

I've been doing cakes about three years. Before that I would make cakes for the kids' birthdays but nothing that I wanted to show to anyone I just did it because it was cheaper than getting them at the grocery store. Once I quit working to stay home with the kids, I needed a hobby and I went through a few different hobbies before getting seriously into cake decorating.

I was reading the rest of your blog. It sounds like you need to find an icing recipe that works for you. You shouldn't have to put the icing in the fridge overnight before it will behave on a cake. If you do, then when the cake comes to room temperature the icing will start slipping off the sides, which will make it hard to take a cake somewhere in the summer, and also will not work for cakes that will be sitting out on display a few hours, like a wedding cake. I think making your own icing is cheaper than buying it, at least when you use a lot.

I use Indydebi's recipe http://cakecentral.com/recipes/6992/indydebis-crisco-based-buttercream-icing It tastes really good and it crusts up well so you can smooth it. Buying store-brand vegetable shortening instead of the Crisco makes the recipe work better, because most store-brand shortenings still have the trans fats. I don't do buttercream very often, but when I do, I use the Melvira method with the foam roller to smooth it after it crusts (you can get the foam roller at Walmart). It makes the buttercream so smooth it almost looks like fondant. Indydebi's recipe will hold up to heat pretty well too...I live in South TX and it's really hot and humid here from about May until October, so I used to have trouble with the frosting wanting to melt off the cake. I used the recipe from the wilton yearbook, but it never crusted, maybe because of the humidity.

I would also suggest that you make a better icing. Like Texas_Rose I use Indydebi's buttercream recipe. I use crisco in mine. I read a post by Indydebi the other day and she said that when everyone started to complain about crisco removing the "trans fat" she was puzzled because it NEVER affected her icing. For some reason her icing isn't affected by the change.
I know that Texas said that "store brand vegetable shortening" makes the recipe "work better" because most of them still have the "trans fat" BUT according to Indydebi...this isn't the case. It is true for other buttercream recipes but for Indydebi's recipe it still works the same with the "new" crisco. I made it the other day with wal-mart brand shortening and it wasn't as good as using crisco.

With Indydebi's recipe I do beat my crisco for at least 15 minutes BEFORE adding any other ingredients. It's about the consistency of sour cream before I add the powdered sugar and other ingredients. This is the best buttercream icing that I've ever used. It smooths beautifully and crusts very well (as long as you DON'T refrigerate) I refrigerated a cake once and it was a nightmare. It took forever to crust and was a sticky mess.

If you're serious about cake decorating then you need to get some good recipes and start using the ones that work well for decorating. I would suggest that you crumbcoat your cakes. I crumbcoat every cake and I NEVER have to worry about getting crumbs in my icing. There are some very helpful tutorials on youtube..."how to crumbcoat a cake" "how to ice a cake" etc....these are great learning tools for the "serious" learner.
Good box mix enhancers are also a good idea for a sturdier cake. "Building/constructing a good cake is essential for a "well dressed" cake. Level, smooth icing/fondant, straight sides, crisp edges, are very important...just as important as the decorations that are "put on" the cake.

Check out some of the cakes in the galleries. Notice that the "professional" looking cakes are well structured,"clean", straight, smooth etc. I cannot tell you how many cakes I made only to bake, level, tort, fill, crumbcoat, and ice just to get the "structure" of the cake down and learn how to properly smooth icing and perfect recipes. I have given cakes away, thrown them away and fed them to my family (till they were sick of them) I did this for weeks maybe even months before I moved to the next step of actually "decorating" my cakes.

I hope you enjoy this hobby as much as I do. I don't have my own business but I do work in a bakery. I'm still learning and hope to be really good one of these days. I have A LOT to learn but just wanted to share with you some of the things that have helped me. This site is a "wealth of knowledge" there are many talented decorators on cc that are always more than willing to help. I have learned so much from being a member of cc. Good luck and "happy decorating"

I know if you throw a packet of Dream Whip into Earlene's cream cheese frosting it gives it a much nicer mouthfeel I think it's the emulsifiers in Dream Whip that do it.