lots of cakey questions lately, aren't there!?

[lucysmam]

Just an observation, as you were!

I've got one!

Who's eaten all the blardy cake in my house, coz I'm damn sure it wasn't me!!

It was ME!!!

Mo, I sent another pile in with DH to the work today and have decided am now going to bake for the coffee shop in the next village who raise funds for the church rather than adding to the constabularies ever expanding waist lines

Good for you! Will you get any money from it or are you not bothered?

(They were damn good chocolate brownies btw and I think it may have been me that ate the last one!)

I have got a cakey question - I actually asked CoV it on her cake thread yesterday, but she had so many posts on it she obviously did not see it.

One of the cakes on her profile is of a champagne bottle - but it is not lying down. How on earth do you cut the cake?

I think they pay for the ingredients and you provide the cakage - I could do with the practice without it ending up on my waistline or going to dh's work - shall have to look into it

was hummingbird cupcakes with creamcheese frosting, crushed pecan nuts and cinnamon dusted over them

Hmmm, nice!

You cut it in rings Bella and build it up. Like one of those 3D jigsaws iykwim! So you have a pile of cakes all sandwiched together with a bit of butter icing.

noooo, I mean to eat it..

Oh, OK! Pass then!

lay it down & cut it that way maybe? Or just look at it!

That's the thing with these cakes though isn't it, they are so lovely, it is a shame to cut them.

I have been on a website today - Squires - and they do a paste starter kit (for some reason it won't let me link) so here is the info -
24 of the most popular colours

Ideal as a starter kit for sugarcrafters.

Perfect for beginners or anyone wanting a complete collection, this comprehensive kit contains a range of paste, liquid and dust colours essential for cake decoration, sugarcraft work and much more.

The kit contains: 10 QFC paste colours, 5 QFC liquid colours, 6 QFC dust colours, 2 metallic colours, 1 white QFC dust. The tray that the colours sit on can also be used as a mixing palette.

What do you think? Is it worth getting it rather than buying paste per cake as and when needed? It is £33.

I know why you would use the paste, but is it the same for the liquids and dust?

Um, probably yeah, I would if I had the money! How much are the colours individually iygwim? If it works out cheaper to get the set then yes, definately worth it

They are £1.80 per pot for the paste. When would you use the others - the liquid and dust?

Dust is for flowers mainly. Or the really arty-farty stuff.

Only thing I have every really used liquid colour for is colouring buttercream. (Oh and mashed potatoe and things like that! lol)

cries in SHAME at putting an 'e' on the end of Potato*

Well, I was going to answer last night but the lo fell out of bed trying to retrieve Upsy Daisy & wouldn't go back to sleep for ages!

Dust make flowers look pretty, can mix it into a 'paint' as well with voddy (I used silver like this on my one record deck I actually did)

Liquid, I make pink cakes for the lo using it, or blue ones or yellow. But other than that & buttercream I don't know what you'd use it for.

Am going to investigate that set later on & probably save up for it. I wanted some new bits for my easter egg cakes so might add to my list for then though

IIRC, from reading another site, the xxtra white is for making sugarpaste a crisper white iyswim?

In answer to the champagne bottle question - it will be a stacked cake with pillars and boards in - so if you cut from the top you will only go down one cake depth as it were - so you cut the top one, eat it, take board off, cut next cake, etc.

The colours sound like a good deal if you don't have any/many already.

Thanks ladies for answering my questions

I am going to order that paste set and a couple of other things - maybe a smoother and rolling pin. The rolling pin I have is a heavy wooden one with handles.

lucysmam - voddy? I take it you mean vodka, but why would you use it? Can you tell that I have got me dunces hat on

You can use a clear spirit of your choice (whatever you want to drink the rest of ) to paint on the 'powder' or 'lustre' colours - the spirit evaporates to leave the colour and doesn't make the icing (too) soggy.

ah! see this is why I love mn and you lovely ladies - a wealth of info

yup, I meant vodka, bella. But stealth already answered you! Went for a wander in town & just got in

I don't know what to get next. Don't actually need anything to do an easter egg cake (just don't tell my oh )