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RE: Hellboy Holy poo poo, that's not a cake, it's art.
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Love the ring cake Big McHuge! Especially the lettering. Getting it level and even is a pain in the butt (but maybe it's just me, I don't have the best penmanship to begin with). A tip on red frosting, make it a couple days ahead of time and get it to a really dark pink and then let it sit and it should darken a bit. Also, gel coloring will make it easier to get darker colors (if you haven't tried that). Not a cake, I know, but I played with royal icing for my Christmas cookies this year and I kind of like how they came out. 
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Dec 19, 2014 22:11
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flutterbyblue posted:Love the ring cake Big McHuge! Especially the lettering. Getting it level and even is a pain in the butt (but maybe it's just me, I don't have the best penmanship to begin with). A tip on red frosting, make it a couple days ahead of time and get it to a really dark pink and then let it sit and it should darken a bit. Also, gel coloring will make it easier to get darker colors (if you haven't tried that). Thanks for the tip. In retrospect, what I should have done was made separate cookies for each part of the eye, then pieced them together on the cake, letting the dark frosting underneath create the lines of definition in it.
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Dec 19, 2014 23:06
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For Christmas dinner, I ended up making these Black Forest Eclairs (not strictly cake but still). The surprisingly challenging bit was to make the eclairs all puffy, when I had no such problems making profiteroles in the past. I think I may have scaled down the choux recipe to just one egg and so this might have reduced the amount of moisture and steam inside the oven to puff up the eclairs. Ended up needing to soak a sheet of baking paper in water to place in the oven just to stop these eclairs from turning into shrunken churros.
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Dec 26, 2014 01:22
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 Devil's food cake, raspberry gelee filling, chocolate butter cream, chocolate mirror glaze, chocolate transfer sheet decorations.
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Jan 18, 2015 01:58
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Very elegant! I like it. How do you do mirror glaze? Is there a buttercream crumb coat and you pour the glaze on from there, or is it more complex?
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Jan 18, 2015 06:22
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flutterbyblue posted:Very elegant! I like it. How do you do mirror glaze? Is there a buttercream crumb coat and you pour the glaze on from there, or is it more complex? Exactly that well a little thicker than a normal crumb coat. Then you put the cake on a rack and pour the glaze over it and let it set. I elevate it off the rack a bit so the glaze doesn't stick to it. Here's the recipe: 3 sheets gelatin 150 grams Heavy cream 225 grams Granulated sugar 180 grams Water 75 grams cocoa powder Bloom gelatin in cold water Combine other ingredients in a double boiler Add bloomed gelatin and heat till dissolved Strain cool until it thickens slightly before pouring over cake
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Jan 18, 2015 06:33
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Awesome! I'll have to give that a shot sometime. I've done some ganache, but not a proper glaze yet.
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Jan 18, 2015 06:50
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Thumposaurus posted:
That looks so amazing. That sheen. 
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Jan 19, 2015 20:18
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 I made a german chocolate ewok cake recently. The ears came out crooked but it was a fun attempt. ;P That Hellboy cake is impressive!
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Jan 26, 2015 03:07
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Haha, that's amazing. He's even wearing glasses.
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Jan 26, 2015 04:15
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 My first attempt at buttercream frosting. It's a pistachio layer cake.
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Feb 1, 2015 17:18
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I had two birthdays this month. My 13 year old daughter who wanted a cat from japanese cartoon, and my son who turned 1 and got balloons and circus animals.    
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Mar 19, 2015 04:42
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Nice job. Good looking Totoro.
The Bananana fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Mar 21, 2015 |
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Mar 21, 2015 00:25
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Just came across this vid today for a really cool safari animal cake, inspired by Lion King. I think my next cake I bring anywhere will be inspired by the animal patterns here, but I don't like the cheetah/leopard as much as the tiger/zebra.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:33
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Anyone have any good Butter-cream recipes? I've been making one from GlobalSugarArt but it just doesn't taste right to me, my mom loves it however. The yellow cake recipe he has is fantastic though.
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May 9, 2015 03:11
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FAT CURES MUSCLES posted:Anyone have any good Butter-cream recipes? I've been making one from GlobalSugarArt but it just doesn't taste right to me, my mom loves it however. The yellow cake recipe he has is fantastic though. Make a Swiss buttercream. Pretty easy and always delicious. Most recipes online will be the same ratio but Martha Stewart never steered me wrong.
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May 10, 2015 14:12
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Mother's day cake! Lychee rosewater mousse with raspberries and white chocolate. I screwed up the white chocolate ganache that I'd planned on covering the cake with so I had to cover my shame up with flowers and chocolate. 
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May 11, 2015 01:23
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have you ever tried adding some lime and cilantro to your cake? It sounds crazy but it is very tastey and great way tyo give your cake a "latin" kick!
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May 11, 2015 20:36
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Nooner also posted to add queso and cilantro to chilli in that thread. Someone responded that he's put that in ten threads this morning. I have a hard time randomly adding cilantro to anything since there's a percentage of the population that tastes it as soap.
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May 11, 2015 23:13
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lime and cilantro can be used to lend a "latin" kick to many different dishes
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May 11, 2015 23:18
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B-day cake for a guest at work today. Lemon cake, lemon curd, Italian butter cream, white chocolate mirror glaze 
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May 16, 2015 20:08
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I made my first non-sheet birthday cake for my birthday today. Chocolate with home-made peanut butter buttercream, topped with oreos and pecans. I tried to do it as neatly as possible, but I need more practice! I also forgot to take a picture before starting to slice into it. But it was moist and delicious and not too sweet. We also smoked a pork shoulder. Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 23:39 on May 16, 2015 |
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May 16, 2015 23:35
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I did a thing! Yellow cake with strawberry filling and some swiss buttercream rosettes.  First time doing rosettes on non cupcakes, some of them are off angled and wonky shaped but I think it turned out pretty good. I just dont want to cut into it now  .
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May 17, 2015 02:23
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Thumposaurus posted:B-day cake for a guest at work today. What's your recipe for the white chocolate glaze? Is it similar to the chocolate one you posted earlier?
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May 27, 2015 03:36
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yoshesque posted:What's your recipe for the white chocolate glaze? Is it similar to the chocolate one you posted earlier? Similar but a little different I'll put the recipe here tomorrow when I'm at work.
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Jun 1, 2015 03:38
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White chocolate mirror glaze 85g cream 20g water 15g corn syrup 130g melted white chocolate 2g gelatin 12g neutral oil Bloom gelatin Melt white chocolate, add heated cream, corn syrup, and water Allow to melt completely Add bloomed gelatin and stir till dissolved Add oil last, chill until proper thickness to flow over cake
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Jun 1, 2015 20:25
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Thumposaurus posted:White chocolate mirror glaze Cool, thanks! Gonna try this on the weekend
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Jun 2, 2015 05:48
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 I learned that I do better when I don't plan out the design beforehand and just kind of wing it. I suck at icing roses. Fondant is way easier.
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Jun 10, 2015 03:05
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 This was a birthday cake for my husband. You're supposed to use halved maraschino cherries for the lights and apparently there was a huge cherry shortage or something because after ten different stores I settled on dyed marshmallows.
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Jun 10, 2015 03:11
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That looks nice. How long did it take you to do all those stars?
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Jun 10, 2015 15:01
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NarwhalParty posted:
I wonder if the cherry shortage is related to the cherry company in New York whose owner killed himself as authorities were moving in on his huge pot operation hidden in the cherry factory. http://gawker.com/cherry-company-owner-commits-suicide-during-factory-dru-1687953677
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Jun 10, 2015 15:08
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CzarChasm posted:That looks nice. How long did it take you to do all those stars? It was actually the easiest and fastest cake I've ever done. It's just a bit monotonous and you have to keep attention to where the colors change. That cherry stuff is deep.
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Jun 10, 2015 15:44
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NarwhalParty posted:
My mom made me this cake when I was 6. Tin foil and all. Awesome.
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Jun 12, 2015 04:23
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 This was my first cheesecake and it turned out delicious. It was Reeses flavor and I made the Batman symbol out of color flow icing. Black Forest is my favorite
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Sep 15, 2015 05:12
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How about some smörgåstårta (sandwich cake)? Sorry about the bad phonecam shots. Vegetarian, made by my fiance:  Smoked salmon, we ordered this one from a bakery, we had too much to do for the twins birthday party: 
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Sep 15, 2015 11:20
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His Divine Shadow posted:Vegetarian, made by my fiance: Heritage, not hate.
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Sep 15, 2015 11:46
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Yay a cake decorating thread. I haven't made cakes in a while but then we hosted a cult themed murder mystery party on the weekend and I made a Necronomicake. I am super pleased with how it all turned out and a bit sad that we actually ate it instead of having it sit around for a while to just look at.    Here's a link to step by step progress if anyone is interested http://imgur.com/a/vV4w5
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Nov 22, 2015 10:25
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Need a last minute cake idea. I think I want to do something with a ganache topping, but I don't know what I want under the ganache. Any ideas?
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Nov 25, 2015 14:05
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Ganached a cake. A few minor hiccups that necessitated doing the chocolate chips, but overall I'm happy and I'm sure it will do it's job of being way too much chocolate. Fake edit: Hershey's perfectly chocolate chocolate cake recipe, the accompanying frosting, ganache (made with hersheys semi sweet chips because I got a theme here) and then coated in same chips. And hazelnut piroulines. Quadruple chocolate I guess? 
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Nov 25, 2015 23:30
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