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Made some pumpkin spice cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting last night. They're not the prettiest, but my god are they tasty and moist! Pumpkin is wonderful.
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# ? Nov 26, 2008 16:45 |
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TwiceIfYoureLucky posted:
This is absolutely wonderful. You're daughter is a lucky girl! Superb job!
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# ? Nov 26, 2008 19:46 |
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So, I received a lovely gift certificate for a local caking shop for my birthday. The shop puts on an amazing amount of decorating classes, but I'm a bit baffled with which ones may be useful for me. Everything I've done so far is self-taught (there's a lot of experimenting involved) and I'm pretty non-traditional (there are not too many flowers or lace on my cakes). I'd like to know if there is anyone out there who's taken a Wilton decorating class - What was it like? Was it worth the time and money? Do you think those Wilton decorating classes would benefit a non-traditional caker like myself, or should I look into something a little more advanced? \/\/\/ Thanks! I'll keep all that info on page one in mind. PezMaster fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Nov 28, 2008 |
# ? Nov 27, 2008 07:26 |
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PezMaster posted:So, I received a lovely gift certificate for a local caking shop for my birthday. The shop puts on an amazing amount of decorating classes, but I'm a bit baffled with which ones may be useful for me. Everything I've done so far is self-taught (there's a lot of experimenting involved) and I'm pretty non-traditional (there are not too many flowers or lace on my cakes). I'd like to know if there is anyone out there who's taken a Wilton decorating class - What was it like? Was it worth the time and money? Do you think those Wilton decorating classes would benefit a non-traditional caker like myself, or should I look into something a little more advanced? I got some good answers to most of those questions on page 1.
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# ? Nov 27, 2008 15:08 |
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Paula Deans' Chocolate Mousse cake. Total hit. It took forever to make, but made it around my family and they were a lot of support. My uncle's a photographer, so that explains the shot. Also- Chocolate truffles by using the left over ganache. Some of the coatings included: Red crushed pepper, beer salt, pecans, cereal, white chocolate, and peppermint kisses.
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# ? Dec 1, 2008 02:00 |
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Flantastic posted:
Well I thought I was full after dinner, and then I saw this! Looks absolutely delicious. Excuse my ignorance, but what is that big comb thing with the fancy handle?
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# ? Dec 1, 2008 03:58 |
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chickyboom posted:Well I thought I was full after dinner, and then I saw this! Looks absolutely delicious. I believe it's a fancy cake cutter. I think they're used to cut delicate cakes like angel food cakes without squishing them. I remember asking my mom about hers long ago when I was a teenager and I think that's how she explained it. Randomity fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Dec 1, 2008 |
# ? Dec 1, 2008 04:23 |
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Elfriede Shrempf posted:It was my first time making whipped cream and my first layered cake too. I just wanted to say that this was an awesome outcome for a first layered cake! I was invited to a dinner on saturday and wanted to make a seasonal dessert but didn't want to do pie or something with traditional spices (cinnamon, ginger, etc) so soon after thanksgiving. So, I ended up making Apple cranberry kuchen
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# ? Dec 1, 2008 04:59 |
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Fight Club posted:Holy crap. That looks awesome. About a week. We even gave significant bits of it away to friends after inviting them over to eat cake.
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# ? Dec 1, 2008 08:04 |
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Do cake-shaped non-pastry items count? My boyfriend doesn't like sweets, so for his birthday last weekend, I made him a meatcake (with meatloaf) and decorated it to look like Captain America's shield. The "frosting" and filling are all mashed potatoes (red and blue bits are dyed). My (girl) roommates were horrified, but he and his friends loved it. chuchumeister fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Dec 3, 2008 |
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chuchumeister posted:Do cake-shaped non-pastry items count? I think it's wonderful! Ahahaha, a little WTF, but fun.
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# ? Dec 3, 2008 21:18 |
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Pooptron2003 posted:Made some pumpkin spice cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting last night. They're not the prettiest, but my god are they tasty and moist! Pumpkin is wonderful. GIVE ME YOUR FROSTING RECIPE (pretty please)
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# ? Dec 3, 2008 21:23 |
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chuchumeister posted:Do cake-shaped non-pastry items count? That is so freakin' awesome. My fiance has begged me not to go overboard with the baked goods when he comes home from Korea, but I need something to do so I don't climb the walls for the two days I'll be at his parents' house before his plane arrives. I wonder if I could do a whole savory meal that looks like cake and candy...
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# ? Dec 4, 2008 01:08 |
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Had a spare cake since a friend canceled on coming over. I got a little obsessive.. The side of the cake had over 900 dots. Idk how many overall. I taught my left hand to squeeze about halfway around the side of the cake. Definitely some intense hand cramps.
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# ? Jan 2, 2009 05:10 |
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Made Smitten Kitchen's chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and chocolate peanut butter ganache http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/08/chocolate-peanut-butter-cake/ Yes it's as good as it looks
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# ? Jan 2, 2009 05:30 |
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Flantastic posted:That is insane.
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# ? Jan 2, 2009 11:36 |
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Demagogue posted:GIVE ME YOUR FROSTING RECIPE Surely! I usually use a loose recipe then add more varying ingredients until I'm happy with it. I think I used this one: 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup butter, softened 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Then I added a poo poo LOAD of cinnamon. Seriously, I loaded those babies up. I also added some orange gel color and a smidge more vanilla. Most of the time I don't even use recipes for frosting... but It had been a while since I made cream cheese frosting so I had to. I usually end up making too much because I keep adding things until I think it's right... by then I have downed so much frosting I never want to see it ever again. (I always come around though)
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# ? Jan 2, 2009 15:25 |
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shakerpenguin posted:Yes it's as good as it looks That's a great picture. I really dig your icing. Was it stable there, or is this an action-shot? I checked out the smitten site, just to see if you rehosting their image.
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# ? Jan 6, 2009 02:02 |
shakerpenguin posted:Made Smitten Kitchen's chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting and chocolate peanut butter ganache loving hell. I know what I'm making this weekend.
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# ? Jan 6, 2009 02:09 |
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Sam_I_Am posted:That's a great picture. I really dig your icing. Was it stable there, or is this an action-shot? have another :3 And nope, not action shots. The frosted cake was in the fridge and the ganache was just the right temperature. I'm quite proud!
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# ? Jan 6, 2009 03:11 |
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You guys inspired me! I decided to have fun making a cake for a coworker- she's lactose intolerant so I made a dairy-free red velvet cake. ...Then I went crazy and decided I just had to try using fondant. It was my first time using it and generic roses were not what I wanted to do (ran short on time) but it looks okay. Also very yummy. Click here for the full 768x672 image. Shame I didn't get any pics of it cut though. It was gobbled up far too fast.
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# ? Jan 6, 2009 03:32 |
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A friend who was in to anime waaaay too much gave me the brief "do it like those 3 storey ones that look like wedding cakes that japanese girls make!" FAIL. So stickly too. I can't deal with home made buttercream icing. I will also point out that this was one of my first times icing with a proper bag and not those tubes you buy. Gawd, it looks worse every time I look at it. *shudder*
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# ? Jan 7, 2009 23:46 |
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My first fondant cake that I made for my sister's birthday: And my second fondant cake that I made for a cake auction: Mr. Sea Turtle's shell was a bit square, but he ended up selling for $62.
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# ? Jan 11, 2009 05:22 |
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BEANS IN MAH BINDLE posted:My first fondant cake that I made for my sister's birthday: P.S. That one you made for your sister is awesome. Keep it up, you're doing well!
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# ? Jan 11, 2009 08:30 |
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repeating posted:I bet you'd easily be able to sell one for a hundred if you made fondant-coated cake legs. People flip poo poo over fondant-covered cakes right now. Awww shucks, thank you! I will, they're really fun to make.
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# ? Jan 11, 2009 18:36 |
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This is random, but I was long obsessed with the cakes seen in Asterix books. The Gauls would always have these fantastic-looking white cakes with light icing and some sort of candy/berries on. Anyone know what I mean?
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# ? Jan 12, 2009 07:03 |
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Some mini cakes I was playing around with. The top blue cake is me just playing with scroll work, and the bottom is my new favorite technique. I think it looks like embroidery.
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# ? Jan 16, 2009 06:29 |
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This, my cake-making comrades, is an "Ugly Cake." It is awesome. This one was made for my band friends who were going on tour. It was a banana cake with chocolate frosting. The decor consists of Kit-Kats, Reese Pieces, yogurt covered pretzels, Nerds, Red Vines, leftover baby shower candy, Pop Rocks, banana chips, Rolos, candy corn, and gummi dinosaurs that are walking along the bottom. I may have missed a couple of ingredients. We took it to the band's going away party and got everyone to indulge by taking photos of them having the cake shoved into their faces by us. It resulted in about 75 pics like this:
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# ? Jan 19, 2009 07:57 |
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So, I need to catch up on my cakes. Click here for the full 1536x2048 image. This was a cake for a fellow goon. It's the first cake I've ever carved. It was decorated in an hour, so I didn't do it as detailed as I would have like. But a good learning experience. He enjoyed it.. Click here for the full 1536x2048 image. Pretty surreal. I spent my Valentine's day enjoying my creations: Click here for the full 1536x2048 image. Chocolate cupcakes with pink vanilla frosting with fancy little white chocolate scribbles that made it look all sophisticated. And truffles. Click here for the full 1536x2048 image. So. Show me your cakes.
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# ? Feb 27, 2009 02:55 |
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I made chocolate cupcakes (recipe from Baking Illustrated) with peanut butter cream cheese frosting last weekend. They were delicious! but not very exciting-looking.
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# ? Feb 27, 2009 03:05 |
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A history of cakes- My first cake, I was like thirteenish- A friend's birthday cake circa age 17- And most recently a friend's wedding cake (age 20)- EDIT: I had a visitor drop in while making that last one- Psychobabble fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Feb 27, 2009 |
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It's a bit late, but here's the cake I brought into the staff room the day before Valentine's Day: I was going to make the big heart a box and put the little cupcakes inside, but I ran out of fondant (that's why the edges look a little wonky). The truffles on top of the mini-cupcakes were really cut marshmallows dipped and decorated in chocolate (I got the idea from Hello, Cupcake!). I know these next two aren't cakes, but I want to share what else I've been up to: Click here for the full 614x461 image. Dessert Sushi! Bacon Cookies! EDIT: I'm looking for a good idea for a St. Patrick's Day cake for March. I'm thinking of doing a rainbow cake, decorated with a little monotone rainbow and pot of gold on top. Anyone else have any creative ideas? PezMaster fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Feb 27, 2009 |
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Psychobabble posted:EDIT: I had a visitor drop in while making that last one- Hahaha what the gently caress do you live in a hanna barbera cartoon?
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# ? Feb 27, 2009 15:04 |
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PezMaster posted:It's a bit late, but here's the cake I brought into the staff room the day before Valentine's Day: How did you do the bacon cookies? I have a group of guy friends that would LOVE those!
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 02:28 |
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Seconding the bacon cookie and dessert sushi recipes! I love food that looks like other food.
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 02:36 |
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I'm no expert by any means, but I like to experiment and have fun from time to time. I made this for a boyfriend in... hrmm summer 2007 I think: He loved it . First from scratch cake I've made, and my first homemade buttercream frosting.
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# ? Feb 28, 2009 09:12 |
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Kitsch Ersatz posted:Seconding the bacon cookie and dessert sushi recipes! I love food that looks like other food. The Bacon cookies were pretty straight forward. I just used a simple sugar cookie recipe and doubled it. I left half of the dough un-dyed - it was the perfect colour for the bacon 'fat'. I separated the other half and coloured with three different shades: a light pink, a darker reddish-pink, and then a nice meaty deep red. Next is the fun part - I started with a rectangle of un-dyed dough (it shouldn't be rolled or smoothed too much - bacon is not perfect!) then I started to randomly pile and flatten the rest of the dough on top of it. I made sure I had a pretty thick rectangle of dough before I cut it along the width of the rectangle (by this time it honestly looked like a side of pork). I then laid them on parchment paper and took the time to pat together the layers (sometime the different colour layers don't stick to each other) and give it some curve. Then just bake and impress goons everywhere! The dessert sushi takes a bit more time. I started with a load of rice crispy sheets and cut them into rectangles and circles. I then lightly coated all the shapes with melted white chocolate -- I thought it gave it more of a rice-like feel and texture. For the sushi rolls (pictured below), I stacked two round rice crispy shapes on top of each other. I then cut up lengths of wax paper and coated them in some melted dark chocolate (I added a little bit of green gel to it so that it really got the seaweed feel). I then rolled the chocolately wax paper around the rolls so that the chocolate stuck right onto the rice crispies. I put them in the fridge for a while to set - when I pulled them out, I was able to peal the wax paper right off - all that was left was the fake, chocolaty pseudo seaweed. I used sweetish berries for the fake roe and gummy orange slices for shrimp. For the tamago sushi, I melted a bunch of marshmallows and put a bit of yellow colour gel into the mix. Then I poured everything into a small baking pan and put it in the fridge. When the marshmallow had set, I was able to cut it into long shapes. I finished up by putting some coloured fruit leather across it like a seaweed wrap. These were, by far, the most impressive. For all the raw fish types of sushi, I used dried mango, cantaloupe, and papaya. The similarity between the dried fruits and real fish was astounding: Sorry for all the non-caking content. Maybe I should open a "Make Food Look Like Other Food" thread?
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Sunny Side Up fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jul 8, 2014 |
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Lixer posted:I'd been on a cupcake kick lately... Do you have a recipe for these, they look delicious!
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Thanks! Lixer posted:I used the recipe from Martha Stewart.com. They came out similar to a pumpkin muffin recipe that I have and not light like a cupcake. I think this is probably due to the texture of the pumpkin added and can't be overcome. But if someone has another fluffy recipe let me know!
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