About 6 months ago my daughter ask me to bake her wedding cake I have baked many items but never a cake and no decorating experience, I told Jenny I would try my best and I had time on my side I have visited this site so many times and read alot of comments read alot of library books and this was her bridal shower cake I got a late start and was a bundle of nerves and had no turntabe as time got closer but learned alot and that mistake will not happen again for her wedding I am doing white cake with rasberry filling from henry and henry I am using Purasnow and Sweetex both high ratio products everyone loved the cake and said it was so moist her shower was a week ago in the second picture you can see I am improving wedding is Oct 7 any comments or help is much welcomed
Thanks Again Jacob
Thank you kakeladi I work on this daily and send her pictures she always says beautiful the part I am not sure about she says I will be busy for rehearsal day before wedding and I know I can do cake couple days ahead of time but the icing and piping I will probably be up late
LOL - looks like you will join the 'all nighter' club :) Just work a bit on getting those strings to be exactly the same size - hanging the same depth. The biggest thing in making strings even is to not drop the tip - don'tdraw them on......pull the tip away from the cake to about 1/2" while squeezing keep it steady as you move across to the next stopping point - don't let that tip droop! Light pressure will allow the string to drop just right. As long as the icing is perfectly smooth they will not break. To insure smooth icing, use a clean/new knee hi stocking. Put it on your hand like a glove and fill your palm w/b'cream. Now take the stocking off your hand by turning it inside out (that's the only way I can describe it - you want the icing encased within the stocking)) then push the blob of icing through the stocking. It's fun to watch it muchroom out - soooo many little strings blobed together.
Thank you kakeladi for the advice not sure if I drop tip will see next time and will try new stocking I will de doing fondant with quilt pattern and thinking that will help with even drops , have you used bubble tee straws, there are 150 people invited so I am doing 5 tiers 14"-6" and she will keep 6 inch are the straws strong enough and would I get 3/8 or 1/2 inch they are new to me I seen in a youtube video
Thanks Again
Jacob
I have not used bubble tee straws as I find regular drink straws work just fine for me. But.....I hear they are good :) YES! straws are very, very strong as long as they are inserted into the cake *STRAIGHT*. That is so important w/any type of dowel. When I taught classes I would take almost 1/2 a class time to demonstrate how to insert & cut supports.
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