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| Dorinda |
Posted - Dec 20 2012 : 08:56:51 AM
I am going to attempt making this cake for Christmas day. It is in the Southern Living magazine this month on the front page also.
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Dorinda |
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Jan 08 2013 : 10:29:51 AM
No Dorinda, the 45 candles were for our friend. I'm afraid my next birthday will require 53 candles on it! I'm sure there is a fire code against putting that many on any cake. I never thought to freeze my decorations. I sure wish I had, but alas, they are history now!
A superb 2013 to you & all the farmgirls!
Dawn in IL |
| Dorinda |
Posted - Jan 07 2013 : 2:58:15 PM
Oh Dawn that is so great that your cake turned out tasty. Was the 45 candles for you? If so Happy Birthday. I bet it looked great with the dark chocolate shavings on top. I wonder if you can freeze the fondant decorations and use them for another time. Anyways Happy New Year to you and your family.
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Dorinda |
| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Jan 06 2013 : 2:21:05 PM
Yes Dorinda, I did make it. The fondant topping pieces came out beautifully. Unfortunately I made the mistake of making the chocolate filling (next page in the magazine) for the cake. Even though the filling was well chilled, it oozed out the sides when I put my beautiful white frosting on it. The end result looked like bird poop! The decorations were so formal & the cake so rustic looking (per my husband) that they didn't go together at all.
I swallowed a bitter pill and kept my decorations off. Instead I put dark chocolate shavings on top of the cake. I had also made the Black Forest Pound Cake, recipe in an earlier issue, and it came out perfect. So at the party I said that buttercream cake was for the kids & the black forest one for the adults (there's brandy in the cherry sauce). My friends, non-bakers, were impressed I had made two cakes & were quite happy with them. I didn't tell them that I had wasted 3 days on the fondant decorations. Everyone was happy and I wanted to keep it that way. My girlfriend actually put 45 candles on the cakes, so the decorations would have just been in the way!
I'll stick to rustic, that I can do!
Dawn in IL |
| Dorinda |
Posted - Jan 06 2013 : 08:49:51 AM
Hey Dawn, Did you make the cake? I was wondering how you liked it and how your snow flakes turned out?
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Dorinda |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Dec 28 2012 : 6:15:06 PM
Nice looking cake, I bet it was yummy!!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Marly
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Dec 28 2012 : 4:44:30 PM
Thanks for the picture Dorinda. I will definitely take a picture of my cake. I am sticking with the white fondant and silver dust though. It won't be as fancy and colorful as yours.
I'm glad to hear your cake came out so well. I feel a bit less nervous about trying the recipe myself. You did a beautiful job on your decorating too.
I hope you have a great New Years too! Thanks again for sharing.
Dawn in IL |
| Dorinda |
Posted - Dec 28 2012 : 3:37:05 PM
Dawn if you make it for New Years. Post a picture also.
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Dorinda |
| Dorinda |
Posted - Dec 28 2012 : 3:25:29 PM
Yes I made the cake. It was very good. Remember I decided to do something different for the decoration on top. I bought the edible sugar paper. I thought there would be at least 3 sheets in it. But there was only one. Phooey!!! So with the one sheet my son's fiancee made the cut out candy canes around it. So a few minutes of thinking and time running out I came up with this. Everyone loved the cake. I would make it again. I had a very Merry Christmas.
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Dorinda |
| Katlady93 |
Posted - Dec 27 2012 : 4:58:32 PM
i love Southern Living recipes. they always look so good, but mine don't ever turn out like the pictures in the mag.
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Dec 27 2012 : 10:13:56 AM
Dorinda, Did you get to make this cake for Christmas? If you did, how did it come out? I'm anxious to hear how the recipe came out.
Thanks,
Dawn in IL |
| Dorinda |
Posted - Dec 21 2012 : 08:29:45 AM
I worked with the Fondant when I was in cake decorating school years ago. Of course i kept trying to make my own and it never turned out to well. I must of been sleeping in that class. LOL Its been quite a few years back since I worked with it. I remember I rolled it out on top of powdered sugar. I was making little mini cakes that looked like little presents. I'm thinking I cut out stripps of it and very carefully tied little bows around the miniature cakes. Hum I am trying to remember how I dyed the stripps different colors. I will have to think on that one. I am getting up in age so I don't do very many cakes anymore. My children are grown and gone. I took the classes back around when I was 27 years old. They had just came out with Fondant. It has probably changed over the years. It was $27.00 for a pound of it at Walmart.We do not have a Michael's close by. Good luck with the cake also. I will figure something out. I made pecan brittle today.
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Dorinda |
| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Dec 21 2012 : 06:38:26 AM
Dorinda, I bought my fondant at Michael's. The price wasn't too bad. I also got white edible dust for it and a mold with presents all over it. I thought I'd get more use out of the presents mold if I can actually make the decorations. I've never worked with fondant before, so this will be a learning experience for me. Any advice?
Don't forget to post a picture of your cake when it is done! My cake is for a friend's birthday, he was born New Year's Eve, but I'm decorating mine as a birthday cake.
Dawn in IL |
| buzzn bee |
Posted - Dec 21 2012 : 05:07:05 AM
Dorinda,
I have that same magazine. Admit it.. Dont you just drool when you look at the cake? I do. LOL!
Have a piece for me. (Big piece that is.)
Debbie H
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| Dorinda |
Posted - Dec 20 2012 : 7:28:16 PM
CJ It is just a white cake with just vanilla butter cream frosting. The snow flakes is made out of fondant. I am thinking that I might have to switch the fondant to maybe a edible sugar paper. They have red edible sugar paper. Fondant is so expensive and my home made fondant never turns out so great. So I might switch the decorations on top around a little. But I am going to follow the home made cake recipe as it is written. It sounds yummy. I hope it is moist.
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Dorinda |
| ceejay48 |
Posted - Dec 20 2012 : 5:44:45 PM
That is absolutely gorgeous and yummy looking! More than I want to tackle.
What kind of cake is it?
Yes, let us know how it turns out . . pics???
Merry Christmas!
CJ
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Dec 20 2012 : 2:51:14 PM
Dorinda, I have that magazine. When I saw that cake, I thought the same thing. Let me know how it comes out. I'm not a great baker, so I'll wait on your input.
Good luck.
Marly
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Dec 20 2012 : 1:19:18 PM
Dorinda, I plan to make that cake for a New Years Eve party. Please let me know how yours turns out. It does look beautiful and delicious in the picture. I sure hope ours turns out as nice!
Good luck with it.
Dawn in IL |
