The Results of Your Ideas... How The Cake Turned Out!

tell hubby I can come up with some doozies lol gload it didnt hurt that slice of cake. am back on but only a few eamilsa at a time I have over 500 in here

Thank you, Lakota. Do you know, I never heard any mention of the handcuffs, except for when I told the hubby what I was going to do and he said "HANDCUFFS?" lolol. Even he commented on how nice it was in the end though, so all went very well. I even had to eat a piece, despite my attempt to lose weight, but it was only a wafer-like slice, so shouldn't worry me too much. Yes, I like those champagne bottles. It was a candle, but nobody seemed to light it! lol. Thank you for your comments on the picture as well and for taking the trouble to look at it close up. Brightest Blessings. xx

I think possibly they didn't light it because they didn't realise it was a candle, lol. It was in the restaurant with subdued lighting so, that's quite possible. He didn't say a word when I told him where the idea came from, just looked at me in disbelief, with dropped jaw. he he he, and no, it didn't hurt to have that little slice. I don't know when you'll be back sweetheart, but probably not for a while. I'm praying all went well, and you'll soon be on the mend. Brightest Blessings, healing energies, love and hugs to my dear, dear friend. xxx

Thank you very much Purple. I'm sure that if you wanted to, and set your mind to it, with a little practice, you could produce a cake along similar lines. Brightest Blessings my friend.

Yes, do... I think you might enjoy it more than you know, and it may be in your genes... who knows?

My mom was a great cake decorator so maybe it's in my blood lol. I will have to give it a try sometime! Love & Hugzz, Your Friend, PurpleTeddyBear ;)

you are very welcome pal , I enjoy reading your discussions and I love to see the pictures xxx

Emmmmmmm, you could say she was over the moon with it... she kept coming over and hugging and kissing me, saying how beautiful it was. Thank you for your comments, both here and on the actual picture. I forgot, before I looked at the larger picture, that I had dusted it with gold petal dust after it was finished. It was to tone the colours down a little and give the cake a glow and I think it worked. lol. I do that on Christmas Cakes with icing sugar through a tea strainer, so it looks as though it's snowed on my Christmas Cakes. :) Brightest Blessings my dear friend, and thank you once again. xxx

I'm pleased to hear that, my friend. :)

It is my pleasure.

Thank you very much Balasri but it wasn't my birthday. However, mine is in thirteen days time, and I'll gladly accept your good wishes, my friend. he he he. Brightest Blessings.

Awwwww, I'll have to ask the lady herself, because she was quite anxious to get the remainder home! ha ha ha. If it was my cake, I'd willingly send you a piece and yes, everybody had a grand time. Another pic taken at the party might give you some idea! Don't ask about the expression on her face, but this is the lady whose party it was, hugging a villager who is a regular at the pub, and who has lived here all his life. Brightest Blessings, my dear friend. Hope you're keeping well. xxx

Yes, I agree eyes are the windows to your soul, my friend. She has very brown eyes, and very happy eyes too... which I think make her look younger and more attractive. Brightest Blessings.

What wonderful kind eyes your friend has. I always look at eyes ..they are the window to the soul you know..but only if you have the eyes to see! Thanks for sharing Doll xoxoxo

Thank you, Pattie, for your comments both in here and on the cake picture. I would be more than happy to make you a cake if I could guarantee getting it there safely. Perhaps a personal delivery would be in order. I have another friend in New Jersey... her name is Robin and I met her in Pogo. :) Perhaps I could visit her as well whilst making the delivery. he he he Brightest Blessings my friend.

For me, too. :)

i will pm you later,right now im so sick and i feel so lousy.gotta go lay down.take care hon.xo.pattie

Thank you Lingli. I started when my sister asked me to make cakes for her kids' birthdays. She had four of her own, and two of her second hubby's, so I had plenty of practice. Then, I started making them for mine and parents saw them and started asking if I could make their kids one. It escalated a bit when I made my Son and Daughter-in-Law's wedding cake. From there, I started getting wedding cake orders. I took pictures and put them in an album, which is lost now, unfortunately. But that's just my story, I copied things, from books, and memory... practiced with flowers and other shapes, like dalmations, racing cars, etc. etc. You can get lessons here, but that costs, so I kept putting books on my gift list, and working from them. This site might help you as I found Wilton's books very handy, and this is free. http://www.wilton.com/cake/icing/coloringicing.cfm Good luck with your project. Perhaps you'll come back and tell me how you get on. Brightest Blessings.

No problem, MsTickle. You sound very busy! lol. Brightest Blessings.

My apologies to you Maddysmommy. I seem to have missed a couple of these responses in my e-mail. Then again, I had a lot of trouble with it last week, so perhaps the alert got lost. Thank you very much, my friend and Brightest Blessings.

Awwww, thank you Beanie. She was really pleased with the cake and the party turned out wonderfully well. Great fun was had by all. Brightest Blessings.

Sure, I would love to make you a cake for your 40th. Getting it to you might present a bit of a problem, but I've never been to Scotland in my life, so it might be a good thing to do, and perhaps bring Gabs along. :) There... that's sorted! ha ha ha. Which leaves me just to thank you very much for your special words again. I have to tell you that I've done something to my back and it's driving me nuts sitting here. I might go take a nice warm bath and see if some added lavender oil will help relax the muscle tension. Brightest Blessings my dear friend. xx

My vote is for the treasure chest. Then you can fill the inside of the cake with something special like a cream filling or fruit filling.

Thank you. I have made quite a few cakes so it's not such a task for me. Great... a pirate's cake... yes, I do have some ideas for this. A treasure chest is just the ticket, and if you can get hold of the bits in the States, here's what I suggest. Take some moulding icing, or roll-out icing and cut a deep, brick shape, to the size you need. Allow it to dry out for 24 hours, then using brown food colouring or cocoa mixed with water, paint the brick brown, trying to streak it a little, like wood. Allow this to dry, but whilst waiting, mould another piece of icing into a rounded lid shape. It can be solid... there's no need to hollow it out, and the same base size as the chest. Then, paint that with the same colour as the main part of the chest and leave that to dry. Meanwhile, take a trip to one of your inexpensive stores, and gather some gold wrapped coins, a candy necklace, fruit gums, which look like gems, or something, enough to almost cover the top of the chest, hang out of the front, and place on the cake in front of the chest so they look as though they've tumbled out. Take your treasures home and leaving space at the back to attach the lid, lay some on the top of the brick shape. These will hold the lid ajar, and hold it in place. Next, attach your chest base to the cake and when dry, attach the lid to the back of the chest base, resting it on the treasures so as to slant the lid open. Attach the lid with Royal Icing, as this will dry hard and do a better job of fixing the lid more securely. Phewwwww... sounds like a lot of work but simple really. Ok, so next, colour a small piece of icing black and roll it out until quite thin, then cut four pieces of strap... two long enough to attach to the front of the chest, and two to attach to the back and bring up over the lid of the chest, with a rounded end hanging over the front edge of the lid. Then, attach pieces of your treasure which you have left over, on the top of the cake in front of the chest as though they've fallen out. Then, I would be inclined to colour a small piece of icing cream, roll it out thinly, and cut a small oblong shape, making the edges tatty, this to be used as a treasure map. Curl the corners up slightly or place over a rolling pin or something similar to dry. Paint on your map, and mark an X on it in red, then allow the print to dry before attaching it to the cake, close to the chest. You could attach things like skull and crossbones, eye patches, compasses, cutlasses and other things to do with pirates, to the sides of the cake, and if you're really ambitious, why not first colour some roll-out icing green and cut it in the shape of an island, big enough to cover most of the top of the cake, and using as a base for your chest? This would add colour and authenticity to the cake. Well, I hope I didn't ramble on too long, and that I made everything clear, but you're welcome to come back and ask about anything which you're not sure of. I'd be happy to help. Good luck with your project. I'm sure the finished cake will be well-accepted, and if done this way, there's not a thing can't be eaten! :)

Thank you, my dear friend. I would love to do your parents anniversary cake if only I lived closer but I doubt it would survive the trip to Oz. lol. As for Christmas cakes, I don't do too many now. I've trained my son, who loves Christmas to do his own, and his daughters like to help him decorate it. So, there's just one for me, one for my Mum and one for the old boy who lives in another lane in the village. He has diabetes, so has to have a special one which I cover with diabetic chocolate, then decorate with items made from white diabetic chocolate. He loves them, as he was never able to eat the normal cakes he got. It's a bit of a sticky job but Freddie's a sweet old boy and I don't mind doing it in order that he can enjoy some of the niceties of Christmas. If any other orders come in, I do them, but I don't go to work in the office any more, and the people who used to order from the pub, don't see me much now I don't work there. It's Sod's Law, isn't it... more time, and fewer cakes. ha ha ha Brightest Blessings.

It depends what type of cake you like. This was just a plain, victoria sponge, with marzipan and roll-out icing. The rest, I did from my decorating techniques. A basic 7-8 inch sponge cake, I would make with 14oz Butter or Margaring, 14 oz Caster Suger, 14 oz Self Raising Flour, and 7 eggs. This would require about one hour twenty minutes cooking time, on 300C. For decorating ideas, I would suggest the Wilton site again, and if you're in the States and unclear about the measures I've given, you'll probably find a Victoria Sponge Cake Recipe online somewhere if you just type that in. http://www.wilton.com/cake/icing/coloringicing.cfm Thank you for your comments and Brightest Blessings.

Thank you very much Royal, for both your comments here and on the picture. I forgot to tell you that I sprinkled the cake with gold petal dust through a tea strainer when completed, which is what gives it that Autumn glow and sheen whilst toning down the colours a little. I do so enjoy decorating cakes. Brightest Blessings in thanking you again.

Thank you very much Progamer for your valued comments. A lot of it was due to suggestions from my friends in here. One suggested Sunset and another handcuffs, and the lady's hubby said make it flowery, so I put together the Sunset colours in the flowers, which became Autumn-like, and used the handcuff idea. Brightest Blessings.