ebl Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 "It's for a 3-year-old, so she's really not going to care." (Brandy524) If it was for a certain 50-year-old (see left), I don't think he'd care. Ever think of opening your own shop? I bet you'd be pretty busy! Eric "was the Tin Man for Halloween one year" L. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 "It's for a 3-year-old, so she's really not going to care." (Brandy524) If it was for a certain 50-year-old (see left), I don't think he'd care. Ever think of opening your own shop? I bet you'd be pretty busy! Eric "was the Tin Man for Halloween one year" L. Thanks, Eric! I'd make you a cake if you weren't so far away! I actually have thought of opening my own business, and maybe one day I will. But my husband is in school right now, so it's not the best time for a new business venture. Maybe when he gets out of school. I am starting to take orders for friends and family, hence the Twilight cake for a friend from high school. Hopefully, one day, it will turn into something bigger. For now I'm just having fun doing a few here and there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Tada! See, told you. I had to brace his arms with toothpicks. So, it just looks like he's hanging from his crossbar in the corn field. I agree that the scarecrow is the best one, but they all look great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 ^ Hey, you're right! I didn't notice that. And thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebl Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 "I'd make you a cake if you weren't so far away!" (Brandy524) I appreciate the offer...but you'll have to work with Splenda... Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STR8FXXXINEDGE Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 All 3 look great, but the scarecrow is definitely my favorite so far as well. You're doing an awesome job. I'm excited to see the end result! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 I'm going to do two separate updates today: one for the Lion, and one for finishing the whole cake. The Lion entry is going to be pretty short. The finished characters all together! Now I'm going to go get a cup of coffee before I do the entry for the whole cake! I decided to do their faces with an edible marker (actually Danny helped convince me) since the face I did with a toothpick didn't really show up. And now he has a tail! I think it turned out really cute! Ears added. It was hard to hold onto those little things. Same with Toto. Tiny ears are not easy to work with! I kind of got busy and forgot to take pictures before this point. Sorry! Legs, again looking kind of gross. Brown fondant for the Lion. Ally made sure to tell me as I was coloring it, that it was supposed to be light brown, not dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Okay, second entry for today (and final one). I spent most of the day on Saturday finishing up the cake. I made two cakes, one yellow (butter) cake, and one chocolate fudge. So here's what I did: And the birthday girl, Cammy, blowing out the candles. She loved it! Scarecrow and Tin Man. Dorothy and the Lion. You can kind of see the brick pattern a little better. And the finished cake! You can't see the brick pattern very well in this picture. Added the Emerald City. I actually had to brace it from the back with a cookie turned sideways and lollipop sticks because the cookies were too heavy. I did not anticipate that, but it all turned out okay anyway. See, it looks more yellow here. Yellow fondant rolled out to make the yellow brick road. It looks kind of green in this pictures, but I promise, it was really yellow. Frosted cake. Green buttercream. This frosting is awesome because it crusts over on the outside. Yum. The two cakes ready to be frosted. Cookies covered in green fondant. These ended up a lot heavier than I expected them to be. So here's the end result. You've all seen this before, so I'm not going to bore you with the whole process. On to making the fondant for the Emerald City and the yellow brick road. Since we were going to be eating these I wanted to make the good stuff. The finished cookie sticks. I should have made them a little smaller so they wouldn't spread so much. I ended up trimming the sides off a lot. The finished butter cake cooling. The cookie recipe that I used for the Emerald City. Although I did not add the cinnamon and sugar coating to them like the snickerdoodles have. Ingredients, because I realized I wasn't taking enough pictures. Although the creme drops are not part of the ingredients. They were just left on the table by a child. When I was little I used to think creme drops were awesome, and totally Christmas-y. So when Danny and I were Christmas shopping on Friday we bought a bag. Yeah, they're not as good as I remember them being. Even the girls didn't like them. They ended up in the trash. Moving on... I made the Emerald City out of cookie sticks covered in green fondant. So here are the cookie dough sticks before they went in the oven. The almost done butter cake on the left, and the doomed first chocolate cake on the right. The chocolate one. Funny story, well, not so funny at the time but in retrospect it's a little funny. I had just melted the chocolate and poured it into the batter when my mother called. I couldn't get off the phone with her fast enough to mix up the chocolate in the batter before it started to harden. I went ahead and mixed it up (though it didn't mix up very good, so I knew something was wrong) poured it in the pan, and put it in the oven. Fast forward 30 minutes when I try to turn the cake out onto the cooling rack: it crumbles, completely falls apart. So I had to scrap that one and start over again. It was frustrating. Mixing it all up. Not very exciting yet, is it? Flour and baking powder. Butter, sugar and eggs mixed up. Bowls and mixer ready to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 ^ Thanks!! She loves the movie too. She talks about it all the time. The characters are her imaginary friends. She was so excited about the cake and her party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrideseeker Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 That cake came out simply amazing!! I love the characters! They were really good!! You did a great job! I cant wait to see the next cake! ~Matthew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 ^ Thanks!! The next one probably won't be until mid-December. I'm going to do one for a friend's birthday for our monthly girls night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCFreak Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 AMAZING! I love how this cake turned out. Excellent work, really, you should consider doing this as a job later on if you can. I'm sure you could even charge for one or two cakes a month to start now to get more practice and a little extra money. Your other cake was fantastic as well. Ace of Cakes is one of my favorite shows (and not just cause I think Duff is hot!) and this definitely makes me appreciate cake decorating and all that goes into it. My mom actually does a lot of cakes for family and friends as well. I might have to show her the marshmallow fondant recipe, as she doesn't like the taste and thinks it's pointless to do so much work for just decoration to peel off. I can't wait to see what else you come up with downt he line as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Thank you!! I'm trying to get more orders for friends and family, to do cheap, just for practice. That way eventually when I'm able to really do business, I'll have a portfolio of sorts. The marshmallow fondant is really great if you don't like fondant. It's just mostly sugar. A lot of work does go into fondant for the people to just peel it off and throw it away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 So I'm on a roll with the character sculpting. I've been asked to make a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, and being the decorator that I am, I wanted to dress it up a little. I haven't made the pie yet; I'll do that Wednesday night. But I did start something else last night. I had some gum paste left over from doing the flower for the Twilight cake, so I decided to do a little character work. Check it out. What do you think so far? Looks like a turkey. I'll post an update with him painted tomorrow. Finished. I'm going to paint him tonight. So far, so good. I just couldn't resist trying my hand at the traditional bird. Can you tell what it's going to be yet? Wilton gum paste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillrideseeker Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 D@mn your good! Turkey is looking great! I can not wait to see how it turns out! Keep up the good work, and good luck!! ~Matthew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 Thanks!! I'm anxious to get it painted tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I hope you've got a strict teeth brushing regime in your house. All these cakes are awesome! My baking attempts normally turn out disastrous! Flapjacks that crumble into granola, and cakes that never set in the middle! I've mastered the art of Fairy Cakes though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 I hope you've got a strict teeth brushing regime in your house. All these cakes are awesome! My baking attempts normally turn out disastrous! Flapjacks that crumble into granola, and cakes that never set in the middle! I've mastered the art of Fairy Cakes though! Yes, teeth brushing is strict! But surprisingly, my kids don't like to eat sweets very much. We always end up throwing candy away because it doesn't get eaten. Odd. I had to google fairy cakes. British for cupcakes? I love it! Never heard that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 The OZ Cake was OZ-some, LOL! Even without the figures (and "poppiesssss...") positioned in their spots, when I saw the pic of the frosted cake with the 'buildings' and road in place, I just smiled and smiled and.... Now you're adding to pies, too! The turkey looks as great as everything else you've shown us, so far. Looking forward to seeing how the painting turned out for you... and it, heh heh. Thanks again for keeping us wide-eyed and (for myself) drooling. Can't wait till mid-December! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 Y'all are all too nice to me! Thanks for all the compliments, and encouragement! I finished up my turkey last night. Here's what I did: He's shiny in these pictures because he wasn't dry yet. He's not shiny anymore. I'm just going to sit this little guy on top of my pumpkin pie (which I'll post about on Monday!). Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! I'm running out of commentary, so one more picture... Then I added orange. Funny story: I knew I didn't have any orange food coloring to paint him with, so I had planned on mixing red and yellow. Started painting and realized I used the last of my yellow for the yellow brick road for Cammy's cake. Oops. Guess what I used to get this pretty orange...paprika! So now my turkey smells spicy. Danny said I needed to put a brown stripe across his tail feathers and wings, so I did. First I started with the brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Not to "complex" what you're doing already - and it's very nice btw - you could pipe some coloured whipped cream on the pie itself and set the bird on that? I was thinking a yellow-wheat color... Turkey In The Straw? (hee hee hee) The bird looks pretty 'done to me' lol. Good work there! (Edit - remembered you ran out of yellow. Ah well, just a suggest.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 So, this is not a cake but since I'd already posted about my turkey for the pumpkin pie, I figured I had to post about the pie itself. The pies turned out great. Danny said it was probably the best pumpkin pie he's ever had. That's always nice to hear! And finally the finished pie with the little guy from last week perched on top. I just served the whipped cream on the side because some people don't like whipped cream on their pie. Imagine that. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Whipped creamy goodness! Homemade whipped cream is the best. Action shot of the mixer. I held the mixer with one hand and the camera with the other to take this. Awesome. Now to make homemade whipped cream. These are the only two ingredients you'll need. It's really very easy. Finished pies sitting out to cool. Don't they look nice? Going into the oven. When making this particular recipe, because it's so runny, you need to put the pie plates on the oven rack, then pour the filling in. If you try putting them in the oven after you've filled them, you'll end up spilling it. After the milk and other stuff is added. The filling ends up very runny, but it's supposed to be that way! I forgot to take a picture of the can of pumpkin. But you use canned pumpkin NOT pumpkin pie filling. We're making this from scratch; no pre-mixed pie filling for me. The above is Ally helping me mix up the pumpkin with the other stuff. When I dumped the pumpkin into the bowl, Ally said it smelled like carrots. All the spices you'll need. Eggs in a bowl. Fascinating! Start with eggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy524 Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 Not to "complex" what you're doing already - and it's very nice btw - you could pipe some coloured whipped cream on the pie itself and set the bird on that? I was thinking a yellow-wheat color... Turkey In The Straw? (hee hee hee) The bird looks pretty 'done to me' lol. Good work there! (Edit - remembered you ran out of yellow. Ah well, just a suggest.) That would have looked good! But yes, no yellow food coloring. Thanks for the suggestion, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 It really looks nice, esp. with the turkey there in the center of the pie. And I could swear the bird looks like a ceramic one! It really turned out nice for you - and the pie... To me, in my hungry humble opinion, lol. Thanks again for sharing another great (yum) "process" in baking. (What??? Whipped cream "on the side"? How thoroughly decadent, lol!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasquatch Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Pie tastes good with coo' whip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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