Date: September 16th, 1998 10:37:32
From: Lisa M
e-mail:
Subject: Re: Unicorn cake ideas??
I am doing one next week. I am using the Wilton Precious Pony pan
(1992 Wilton, pg 179) and adding a horn with the hard candy stick. I
am doing the same colors that are on the napkin.
Hope this helps.

Date: September 16th, 1998 08:57:28
From: Lisa
e-mail: LISASCAKES@aol.com
Subject: Re: 10th Anniversary cake for a business
Jodi,
I think your idea of the logo is a good one. For the side of the 3d truck
you could transfer the design to wafer paper, this way you can do that up ahead of time. Good luck doing all those cakes.

Date: September 16th, 1998 09:10:09
From: Lisa
e-mail: LISASCAKES@aol.com
Subject: Re: Re: Re: 40th birthday cake
Emily,
how good are you at figure piping? How about an arobics class- all young with one old man exercising? I'm fond of the saying --- REMEMBER WHEN 40 WAS SOOOOO OLD!!! this saying works for all the milestone birthdays

Date: September 16th, 1998 08:50:59
From: Sue
e-mail: proicer@one.net
Subject: Re: Re: Newsletter Question
Go to http://w3.one.net/~proicer/index.html
There is a LOT there. Arrow down to Newsletters, click on it and POOF.

Its under Join the fun on our home page sugarcraft.com

Sue at Sugarcraft, Inc.

Date: September 16th, 1998 08:40:29
From: Sue
e-mail: proicer@one.net
Subject: Re: frog cake
OK who hasn't looked at Mom's cake pictures lately? There's a great
picture with complete directions on a frog cake. Go to
http://w3.one.net/~proicer/cakepict/frog.htm

Sue at Sugarcraft, Inc.

Date: September 16th, 1998 05:42:56
From: Marida
e-mail: binsted@erols.com
Subject: Re: frog cake
Robin, Wilton has a frog pan. I don't know if it is still availabe
because I bought mine about 10 years ago. If you don't want to do a 3D
one you could do one in wafer paper and put it on a cake along with some
water, etc.

Date: September 16th, 1998 08:05:55
From: J
e-mail:
Subject: Re: Re: X-rated cake
I know someone who made a guy cake. She used the bottom of a guitar pan
(cut the handle off) it makes nice curves. At the bottom she used a
banana covered in frosting, 2 ding dongs covered in frosting and tinted
or browned coconut. Get the picture? The lady who received it thought
it was hilarious--as did the rest of us!!

Date: September 16th, 1998 08:02:46
From: Jenny
e-mail: jenny.u@usa.net
Subject: Re: frog cake
My mom has collects frogs and has hundreds!! As a fun 25th wedding
anniversary I had a lady make me a frog cake sittin on a round cake
with a plastic "lily pad" flower on it. It was really cute (and
delicious). She made hers with the star tip all over . Send me your e-
mail and I'll send you the picture.

Date: September 17th, 1998 12:27:34
From: lynne
e-mail:
Subject: Re: 10th Anniversary cake for a business
hi jody; welcome to our humble abode. we're glad you found us. pull
up a chair, put your feet up and stay awile :)

i don't have the exact location right now, but there have been several
truck cakes in wilton books. one i know is in a celebrate, but can't
place which one right off:) i'll look it up.

next, re: your cf logos. i guess teachers have done tooooo good a job
on saying royal dosn't mix w/buttercream. i have used pieces just like
you are thinking of doing many times. the cf really dosn't breakdown
-- at least now for many, many hrs. you can put that logo on the truck
side w/no problem. if it were on top of a cake i'd suggest using sugar
cubes to elevate the logo above the buttercream, but don't think they
would stay in place on the sides like you want. the sugar cubes will be
too heavy to stay put --they'd prolly just slide down :)

hope this helps.
lynne

Date: September 16th, 1998 11:15:15
From: Lisa M
e-mail:
Subject: Help with tree and wine bottle
I am semi new at decorating. I need help with putting a large tree on
a sheet cake. How should I do the leaves?

Also, I want to put a wine bottle on a different cake and write on the
label. How should I decorate or fill it in? (What tip should I use?)

Thanks in advance.
Lisa

Date: September 16th, 1998 08:35:24
From: Sue
e-mail: proicer@one.net
Subject: Re: castle & Dragon cake ideas
Wait till mom gets back the 22nd. She did a castle for a wedding cake
and it was MAGNIFICANT! She also took it to the ICES convention. She'll
be adding it soon to her cake photo page I'm SURE.

Just a peek...
She used 3 square cakes in the center with 4 hollow paper tubes at the
corners and a smaller square cake in the center with ice cream cones for
the pointy roof tops. Covered everything with fondant.

There are some Dragon ideas father down on this page. I've never seen
one for a wedding cake to serve lots of people, but I'm sure you could
sculpture one. It would just take lots of time and patience.

Sue at Sugarcraft, Inc.

Date: September 16th, 1998 04:13:12
From: Jody
e-mail: RunyanFmly@aol.com
Subject: 10th Anniversary cake for a business
HELP!!! I'm fairly new to this message board, but I've enjoyed reading
a ton of the old messages and archived notes.

I was recently approached to do some cakes for a large corporation.
This will be for a 10 year celebration. They need enough cake for 450
people give or take and want it separated into three segments so that
all three shifts have their own cake. What we've settled on so far is
to have 10- 12x18 cakes (6 for 1st, 2 for 2nd and 2 for 3rd) and a
large 3-D truck cake (shaped like one of their distribution trucks).
Part of the problem is the business logo is VERY boring. My thoughts
were to do ten logos ahead of time in color flow with several other
accent pieces done to match items from their catalog (They distribute
everything from lawn mowers to tools to light bulbs.) to place around
the logo. One of the reasons I want to do color flow is because I can
have it all done up ahead of time and when it comes to doing the cakes
all I'll have to do is ice them, put on borders and place the CF
pieces. If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd appreciate it!

The second problem is the 3-D truck. If anyone has any pictures of
large trucks, I'd appreciate seeing some. The business is loaning me a
"toy" business truck to use as a model. I haven't seen it yet, but I
was told it is all white with just the plain logo on the side. I
would've liked to do CF on the side of the truck too, but I know it
breaks down when in contact with buttercream, so I guess I'll just have
to do a pattern transfer. Again, any help with this would be
appreciated very much!! Thank you.

Date: September 16th, 1998 02:57:28
From: Sam P.
e-mail: sparsley@ipa.net
Subject: castle & Dragon cake ideas
I am in search of ideas on a Castle and Dragon cake Ideas for a wedding.
If you can help email me at sparsley@ipa.net Thanks, Sam P.

Date: September 16th, 1998 10:45:16
From: Tracy
e-mail: forst@towers.com
Subject: Re: frog cake
I'm not sure about the 3-D bear, but if that works, you could stack it on top of a sheet cake iced blue/green for water and form a gumpaste lily pad. You could then place the frog on top of that.

Date: September 16th, 1998 08:18:19
From: robin
e-mail:
Subject: frog cake
One of the secretaries where I work really loves frogs. Her birthday is
next month; has anyone made a frog cake from the small 3-d bear pan? I
was thinking of covering it in rolled buttercream tinted green. Any
suggestions? Thanks in advance! Robin

Date: September 17th, 1998 10:48:13
From: Marida
e-mail: binsted@erols,com
Subject: Re: Re: any pictures of wine bottle on the net?
In Wilton's 1980 book there is a picture of a cake with the wine bottle
on it and it is called "aged to Perfection." I have used that pattern
for several cakes. For some reason I cut that picture out and now I
can't locate it. Maybe someone on the message board has that yearbook
and will email you a picture of it. In the meantime I'll keep looking
through my stencils.

Date: September 17th, 1998 06:23:56
From: Janice O
e-mail: gooo8@aol.com
Subject: Re: Re: ISO decorating ideas--SNARE DRUM--Thanks Sue (NT)

Date: September 17th, 1998 04:57:23
From: Lisa M
e-mail:
Subject: Re: any pictures of wine bottle on the net?
Are there any scanned pictures of this cake on the net? I would really
like to see a picture.
Thanks
Lisa

Date: September 17th, 1998 04:23:08
From: Clister
e-mail: chilliard@mail.state.tn.us
Subject: How to make Fire Engine cake
How to do go about making a 3-D Fire Engine cake to feed about 25-40
people. Thanks for all your help in advance. YOU ALL ARE GREAT!

Date: September 17th, 1998 11:46:27
From: lynne
e-mail:
Subject: Re: Help with tree and wine bottle
hi lisa;
are you looking to make this tree 3-d? what kind of tree? if it can
be a pine tree is simply is a cone covered w/leaves -- use any leaf tip
or tip 74. the cone can be stryofoam, stiff paper or ice cream cones.

another way for 3-d is to colorflow it w/some kind of stick that you
can push into the cake. (popcycle sticks are good here.)

or i have often done them like marida suggested. i use a star tip & dk
brown icing for the trunk and branches. i usually make the trunk on
the left side of the cake right on the edge (there will be no border
there) w/the branches overhanging the rest of the cake. btw, the cake
is decorated so you look at it longways (up & down), hope that makes
sense.

as for the bottle lable: you could use waferpaper or fondant or gp or
just white icing. you asked about w/tip to use -- for the writting?
i prefere using tip 2. best to write you message 1st w/the same color
as your backgroud icing (white on white, yellow on yellow) w/tip 3 or 4
then overpipe it w/tip 2 and a color that w/show up.
hope this answers you ?s.
lynne

Date: September 17th, 1998 08:41:07
From: Laura
e-mail: jaygien@aol.com
Subject: carosel cake
I've just find ya'll and I hope you can help. I've seen several
pictures of a carosel cake & i would really like to get a look at it
again before i start on it. Does anyone know of a sight or magazine
that they saw it in?? Thanks a lot!
laura

Date: September 17th, 1998 09:43:06
From: Jody
e-mail: RunyanFmly@aol.com
Subject: Re: Re: 10th Anniversary cake for a business
Hi Lynne, Thanks for your help. I, too, have put cf pieces directly on
the cake. Sometimes I leave the wax paper as backing and sometimes not.
The problem with these cakes are that they WILL be sitting for quite
some time. The truck cake is going to be used as decoration until every
shift has eaten their sheet cakes. In addition, They'll be picking the
cakes up Sunday evening as they will be needing to start serving them
on Monday morning. I got to thinking about it and I thought about
leaving the wax paper on it (as I've done with other pieces), I'm just
not sure if it will be too heavy. Thanks again!

Date: September 17th, 1998 09:53:22
From: Jody
e-mail: RunyanFmly@aol.com
Subject: Re: Re: 10th Anniversary cake for a business
Hi Lisa, Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I've never used
wafer paper before. I have some of those food color markers, (don't
have the right kind of food color for them) but I've never actually had
time to experiment with them. The cakes aren't due until October 4, but
I'm not sure I'll have time to order everything I'd need and be good
enough at it for this order. I am nervous about it because they are a
large company and they're using me instead of their usual bakery (one
of the biggest ones in the area) and I'm not sure I want to try a
method I'm not really comfortable with. Is it very difficult? Does it
look professional? Thanks!

Date: September 17th, 1998 10:59:50
From: Marida
e-mail: binsted@erols.com
Subject: Re: Help with tree and wine bottle
When we do a tree we figure pipe the trunk and limbs out of brown icing
and do leaves with a leaf tip. We have done the bottle on a cake before
and after you make the shape of the bottle, make a label and write
within the label. We usually do little dots of piping gel at the top
opening to make it look like bubbles coming out.

Date: September 18th, 1998 05:19:42
From: Diane B.
e-mail: Pippingirl@aol.com
Subject: Re: castle & Dragon cake ideas
In COLETTE'S CAKES she shows how to do a cake with a fondant dragon on it. It's quite beautiful. It IS a Chinese dragon (as opposed to the European dragon) but it could very easily be adapted.
She gives step-by-step instructions on cutting a stencil, coloring the icing, shaping it - everything.
I hope this helps!

Date: September 18th, 1998 11:51:19
From: Marida
e-mail: binsted@erols.com
Subject: Re: ISO Airforce birthday cake idea
I do cakes for the Marine Corps' birthday in November each year. You
could do a stacked cake and do the AirForce emblem on top of an eight
inch circle that you have covered with royal icing. Then you could put
a popcicle stick onto the back of it and put that down into your top
tier.

Date: September 18th, 1998 03:42:47
From: Deb
e-mail: Aldridge1@home.com
Subject: ISO Airforce birthday cake idea
I need to make a cake for the high school JROTC program. They are
celebrating the 51st year of the airforce. It is for about 175
people. I need some ideas that are quick to do as I am running out of
time and am having one of those weeks were I have a million and one
things that need my attention. Thanks for any help you can give.