Friday Night Cake Club For 9/19/14
Decorating By catlharper Updated 23 Sep 2014 , 11:43pm by TheItalianBaker
AA little late I know but these are mine from this week. Very similar colours too!
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Thank you again! I'll let you know how the first attempt goes next month. If it goes well then I very well may add this book to my Christmas list! LOL!
Cat
Cat, sorry for your losses.
Matty, great job on the cake! I, too, have an 8 month old and it's really a challenge to find time to work on my cakes since you can't really predict illnesses and teething. If only he'd start sleeping thru the night!
Sweetshop, love your cakes this week!
Here is mine...it's a pirate themed cake for my bestfriend's son's 1st birthday.
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Cat, sorry for your losses. Matty, great job on the cake! I, too, have an 8 month old and it's really a challenge to find time to work on my cakes since you can't really predict illnesses and teething. If only he'd start sleeping thru the night! Sweetshop, love your cakes this week!
Here is mine...it's a pirate themed cake for my bestfriend's son's 1st birthday.
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@OTcakes your waves are pretty, and that map really sells it. Great job on that map.
@kuuushi it's ok to use those colors on both cakes, as you made a beautiful array of blues. You have been making very detailed cakes. You've got someone's favorite things on the bus cake, it must have taken forever!! Nice.
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Cat, sorry for your losses. Matty, great job on the cake! I, too, have an 8 month old and it's really a challenge to find time to work on my cakes since you can't really predict illnesses and teething. If only he'd start sleeping thru the night! Sweetshop, love your cakes this week!
Here is mine...it's a pirate themed cake for my bestfriend's son's 1st birthday.
Awww thanks! I know, mine still wakes up in the middle of the night so i can't even decorate undisturbed even then! Lol.. Your cake is amazing!! The map looks so real!! Airbrushed?
Cake I made for a wine tasting bridal shower for a dear friend's daughter. Just a hobby baker who was inspired by a tutorial by Haniela.
All fondant decorations except the "shreds" which are "dang" toasted coconut chips tfl
AEveryone's cakes are wonderful as always.
I was wondering about the modeling chocolate and how far in advance could you make the pieces and how would you store them? I think may need to order that book.
I didn't make any cakes this week, but plenty of cupcakes for work. Tried a new chocolate cupcake recipe and half were with chocolate buttercream and the other half had a caramel filling and caramel buttercream.
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Marian
Cat, sorry to hear you won't be making cakes as a business any more. You will be missed, I'm sure. You've made some gorgeous cakes and have great talent, but you have to do what is best for you, your family, and your health. Wish you all the best in whatever you do. Are you still going to be hosting the Friday Night Cake Club? At least that way we can still keep up on what is happening in your life as well as these lovely cakes.
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Cat, sorry to hear you won't be making cakes as a business any more. You will be missed, I'm sure. You've made some gorgeous cakes and have great talent, but you have to do what is best for you, your family, and your health. Wish you all the best in whatever you do. Are you still going to be hosting the Friday Night Cake Club? At least that way we can still keep up on what is happening in your life as well as these lovely cakes.
Gerle,
Yes, I'm still going to be here every Friday night! I'll still be making cakes too but just not for sale. I think I'm going to be working on demo cakes so I can take as much time as I want and work on new techniques as slow as I want to be able to do so. The problem with doing client cakes is that it's on a short time schedule and my hand just won't take it. I end up with a very sore hand after even simple cakes now. But with a demo cake I can take 2-3 weeks and no one cares! I can do intricate work a teeny bit at a time and end up with the cake I want and not have to worry about cake going bad or meeting a client deadline. Of course we have a HUGE family so I'm not off the hook for those cakes LOL! There is at least one a month for family.
Thank you for the glowing compliments...made my day! :)
Cat
Hi everyone!
I came back in this morning and I'm so glad I did! Wow! The cakes are all AHHHHH-MAZING! My eyes are popping!
But the reason I came by was to tell you what I discovered! They are acetate smoothers for fondant. Now, they are sold out right now but she's ordered another shipment and I'll be getting mine as soon as she does! Go to this link to check it out and also click on the photo of the smoothers and watch the tutorial link there:
https://store1440083.ecwid.com/#!/Decorating-Tools/c/10718215/offset=0&sort=normal
Cat
Julia!
Your cake is amazing! I think you are MUCH better than your words let on. Thank you for your kind words to me...it's been a hard week.
Cat
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@swishykitty very dressed-up cake. Really like those coconut shreds.
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@julia1812 you've made very pretty cakes, lots of details, lots of color, you may not call yourself a "pro" but you are leagues ahead of average decorators.
ALol, thanks. I wasn't fishing here or anything... Just meant that I feel very restricted at the moment due to my location. Food coloring gel? Dowels? Candy melts? CMC? Just to name a few...are NOT available! Anyway, like I said, I enjoy this forum alot and when I see some cakes (like just now I saw a skateboarder in "most popular"), my jaw drops to the floor and I feel very incompetently
Julia,
My dad use to say that comparing yourself to others is useless because there will always be someone better than you...and always someone worse. Compare yourself to yourself only. See how far YOU have come in your work. With each cake I learn something new, get a little more experienced and do a little better. For instance, I use to just get mentally panicky when I'd think of covering a cake in fondant. It really stressed me out. But now it's just something that needs to be done. Now I'm constantly looking for new ways to use the fondant to cover as a way to stretch my skills. When I look at my first cakes compared to what I can do now, and what I can do now with ease, I can see how far I've come with this work. So keep up the work...there's only up!
Cat
A[IMG ALT=""]http://www.cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/3287637/width/350/height/700[/IMG] Just one for me...I've been sick so haven't been taking orders.
Reen! SO cute! Love your little critters! I do hope you are feeling so much better! Please do take care as much as you can and we'll see you back here next week.
Cat
Hello everybody!!!
Last saturday I had my first big order since I opened my home based bakery!
The customer was somebody that followed me from the bakery I used to work for to my business, so that's her order!
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@reenrules that is nice, I'd love to have the eye for color that you do. Love the elephant.
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@TheItalianBaker congratulations on your first big order, may you get many more!
The Italian Baker: That is a gorgeous dessert table! A very beautiful cake (awesome flowers!) for the centerpiece! Congrats on your first professional order for your OWN business! May this lead to many many more!
Cat
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The Italian Baker: That is a gorgeous dessert table! A very beautiful cake (awesome flowers!) for the centerpiece! Congrats on your first professional order for your OWN business! May this lead to many many more!
Cat
thank you Cat!!! I've been through 2 horrible weeks, I really hope this is going to be my start..
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