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Post by julie68 on Mar 4, 2008 9:52:01 GMT -2
They are both lovely, the mothers day cake is so pretty your mum must have been thrilled with it.
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Post by victoria on Mar 20, 2008 20:14:27 GMT -2
Here's another college piece that we finished today...again a bit OTT, but I just can't seem to stop...the flowers are hand piped
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Post by julie68 on Mar 25, 2008 7:41:23 GMT -2
thats lovely Victoria
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Post by victoria on Apr 1, 2008 14:27:53 GMT -2
Here's my latest...a christening cake for my cousin's little girl...
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Post by victoria on Apr 1, 2008 14:28:35 GMT -2
and here's my mum's birthday cake...more hand piped flowers...
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Post by julie68 on Apr 4, 2008 9:29:45 GMT -2
wow i love the christening cake, the booties look great and the piped flowers on all your cakes look good too must take ages!!
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Post by victoria on Apr 4, 2008 9:50:31 GMT -2
i thought the bootees would be really difficult, but they were surprisingly easy, the feet were the worst as i don't have a cutter and had to cut around a cardboard template for each one...and the flowers don't take long at all...probably about an hour for 100 flowers. I really like doing piping and royal icing stuff now, its really therapeutic and you can cover up loads of mistakes with a bit of piping!
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Post by victoria on Apr 15, 2008 18:20:00 GMT -2
this is my daughter's second birthday cake...for those of you who don't know, its peppa pig
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Post by victoria on Apr 20, 2008 17:15:02 GMT -2
a cowboy boot cake...
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Post by victoria on Apr 20, 2008 17:17:14 GMT -2
pony cake for my niece...nightmare, the heads kept falling off!
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Post by julie68 on Apr 21, 2008 6:59:29 GMT -2
WOW, you have been busy, love the boot it looks like real leather!!! have you tried making suger sticks from pastilage? they are would have been great for keeping the pony heads in place, and they are safe too.
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Post by victoria on Apr 21, 2008 12:34:25 GMT -2
i generally use raw spaghetti, but even that didn't work...how do you make sugar sticks? are they stronger than spaghetti?
i think the problem was the cake was soft...i generally do madeira cake for all my novelty cakes, but someone complained it was dry, so i've started to do just a normal victoria sponge, but it doesn't hold things like that well, luckily it was for my neice and not a paying customer, so i just supported the purple one that wouldn't stay up at all with a dowel
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Post by britjap on Apr 21, 2008 19:11:17 GMT -2
They're all lovely. Peppa Pig is so cute and the boot just fab. I've seen with interest your classwork cakes - I would love to try piped flowers and can't find anyone to show me - written instructions just aren't as easy to follow!
By the way, I used a piece of macaroni to hang a heavier item on a vertical cake side (it was a hose reel on a fire engine cake). Bit more width, or diameter, so provided more strength.
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Post by victoria on Apr 22, 2008 13:19:10 GMT -2
yes, i can imagine it is hard to follow from written instructions...difficult enough when you watch someone else do it! have you got a petal nozzle?
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Post by victoria on May 25, 2008 10:13:52 GMT -2
Some of my recent cakes... thought i'd try the stripey piping...should have used a smaller tube and piped closer together, but generally was easy to do this is a sugarpaste college piece and this is the most old fashioned cake I think I've ever done, but strangely, I quite like it
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