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Sunday, October 31, 2010
If anyone is in the Hawkes bay area this weekend you might be interested in popping along to the Cake Decorating Guild Conference. The Cake Shop will be there as always will our trade table. The conference will be held at the Eastern Institute of Technology on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th of November. Registrations for the actual conference have now closed. However you can still come along and have a great day by visiting the sales tables and fun raffles to enter for some great cake related prizes, you can also enjoy visiting the competition and exhibition area which showcases the amazing cakes and sugar craft items made by members of the NZCDG. The exhibition is always amazing to see and do not forget to introduce yourself at our trade table we love putting a face to a name. If you would like us to bring anything special down for you at the conference please just let us know. Below is a map showing the conference layout click on map to enlarge.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
You can easily use your chocolate moulds for cake decorating modelling as long as you follow some basic techniques - tried and tested!Chocolate moulds do not give the same indent detail as silicone moulds but when using for simple decorations they are an easy and cost effective way to do the decorations.
What we did!
-Firstly we made some modelling paste using the shell pink regalice and some gum traganath. Knead 1tsp of Gum trag into 250grams of Regalice to give you a nice modelling paste. Wrap in gladwrap and leave to sit for about 1-2 hours. (You must use either a modelling paste or gumpaste in the moulds as it is easier than plain fondant/sugarpaste)
-Sprinkle your castle chocolate mould with cornflour and have a baking tray ready lined with baking paper on it sprinkled with cornflour.
-Press your icing into the castle mould pinching off the excess then push out straight away and lay on your tray lined with baking paper/cornflour to dry overnight.
-We put our castles on some 20# wire cut so it would stand up and also dusted with
sugarflair shimmer pink. We also added some little blossoms with our ejector cutter blossom set
Sale on Now! Short dated stock recieved - Our Loss your Gain . PME Red lustre spray and
PME Green lustre spray was $23.00 now only $10.00. Good to use for competition and display cakes as well. Expires end OCT 2010. Limited sale while stocks last!
PME Green lustre spray was $23.00 now only $10.00. Good to use for competition and display cakes as well. Expires end OCT 2010. Limited sale while stocks last!
Monday, October 11, 2010
We get asked alot about the size of icing wires so I have put some facts below to help take the mystery out of this.The wires can come in gage 18-30 . The lower the gage the thicker the wire hence 18 is a very thick wire and 30 is the thinnest. 18-22 are used mostly for icing star burst decorations as they need the thickness to stand up. Where as the thinner gage 24-30 are used for flower making and putting sprays together.
I have put a pic to show you all how easy it is to make star burst icing decorations as these are so quick and easy!
*Firstly roll and cut out your fondant to the desired shape eg - heart , flower, star
*Dip the end of your wire into a tiny bit of eggwhite or sugarglue
*Dip the end of your wire into a tiny bit of eggwhite or sugarglue
*Slide your fondant decoration onto your wire and dry on a tray lined with baking paper which has been sprinkled lightly with cornflour so they do not stick.
*Let Dry 1-2 days and then lift up when dry, brush off excess cornflour and decorate your cake!
Well as always I ran out of time for baking on cupcake day. With two little ones with the flu my cupcakes were not being decorated till 12pm that night. I still wanted a animal theme though so even though I could not do the animal lollipos. I used my Dog First Impression mould and some Teddy Bear Brown Regalice to make some cute little doggie cupcakes shown below. As it was easy and quick! My trusty Wilton icing tubes did the colours and eyes. I thought they came our really cute and made some money for a good cause!
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