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A tale of great customer service

By CakeableSun, 09/20/2009 - 22:30

Let me tell you a tale of good customer service.

It was my birthday recently. My boyfriend, under enourmous pressure, realised that what I really, really wanted was some gem molds.

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Racing Car cakes

By CakeableFri, 09/18/2009 - 11:09

This lady uses a car cake pan (in this case the wilton racing car pan) to make the cake shape, then covers it with sugarpaste.

If you really want a car shaped cake then this is the easiest way to do that, although a dedicated car shaped pan is a bit of a luxury.

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Cake Porn

By CakeableWed, 09/16/2009 - 10:46

Have you ever had one of those moments when you feel as though something is wrong, but you're not sure what?

Picture of the underside of cakes

I was standing in line at the coffee shop the other day, when I had that feeling, an uncomfortable feeling. I felt slightly embarrased by something but I couldn't put my finger on what.

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For my sister's birthday I decided to make a cake based on the luggage from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books. For those who don't know, the luggage is a large sapient pearwood chest, with hundreds of feet which follows Rincewind the wizard.

Obviously this requires a large number of feet - for which I decided sugarpaste was just the ticket.

Feet everywhere

3D Christmas Tree

By CakeableSun, 09/06/2009 - 17:22

Completed Standing up Christmas tree

I know, Christmas is a long way away, but I had some icing, and this seemed like an easy pilot project for 3D Royal Icing construction.

First I drew out the design:

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Covering a cake with sugarpaste

By CakeableSun, 09/06/2009 - 17:07

Covered cake

Covering a cake with sugarpaste gives you a beautiful, flat, smooth surface to work on, plus you can use all sorts of effects in the sugarpaste to add interest to your blank slate.

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Marzipan decorating canes

By CakeableMon, 08/24/2009 - 10:15

Browsing the web, I found http://fimocrazy.blogspot.com/2006/01/tropical-flawer-totorial.html and I thought that if this could be done with polymer clay, why not with icing.

It was getting on for the evening, and I didn't have any sugarpaste hanging around, just marzipan but I was desparate to give it a go.