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Congratulations!
I was thinking to myself the other day about how awesome is was back in May when I was contacted about having a book giveaway on my blog. Someone important found my blog and thought I was important enough to advertise their product. Well what do you know! A few days ago I was contacted by someone to do the same thing again! A person from Hachette Book Group asked if I was interested in a receiving a copy of a book to review on my blog and also give you guys, my lovely & loyal readers, a chance to win a copy of your own!
The book is Confetti Cakes For Kids by Elisa Strauss. I received my copy yesterday, and it really is very adorable. I've flipped through the pages a few times, and every time I see something that makes me squeal! The recipes look delicious. Most of the frosting recipes are Swiss meringue buttercream (which most of you should know is the holy grail of frosting, in my opinion)! And the pictures are absolutely gorgeous! The decorating projects range from simple sugar cookies to elaborate cakes. Most of the projects require working with a lot of fondant and gum paste. There are step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations to help you. Whether you are advanced in your cake decorating skills or just starting out and still need some help, I definitely recommend this book for you!For more details about the book and to see videos of Elisa Strauss creating amazing cakes, go to HachetteBookGroupUSA.com or click here.
Now, here are the details you are all waiting for! If you want to receive your own copy of Confetti Cakes For Kids, all you have to do is leave a comment on this entry by Monday, October 13 @ 12 midnight (EST). Make sure to include your e-mail address (double-check to make sure it's typed correctly). Also, include your favorite memory pertaining to cake decorating. I will randomly select up to 5 commenters to win, and you will find out by Tuesday evening! Sorry, but this giveaway is limited to residents of U.S. and Canada only.
Once again, here are the rules to win:
1) Leave a comment on this entry by Monday, October 13 @ 12 midnight (EST)
2) Include your e-mail address and your favorite cake decorating memory
3) One comment per person
4) U.S. and Canada residents only
191 comments:
okay so my favorite cake decorating moment...
i am in culinary arts at my high school, and last year when i was a junior, our chef instructor was contacted to make a cake for someone's wedding!! my best friend and I were given the project to complete in a week's time, and we had only made ONE fondant cake in our entire lives! Alina, the owner of Sweet(which is a bakery in worcester, ma) came in and helped us create this beautiful cake, which we were paid $500 to make. My favorite cake decorating moment was delivering this cake, and getting to see firsthand how stressful it can be to complete a task like this. It was amazing to learn how to make tons of different fondant and frosting flowers, it was truly an experience that I will appreciate for the rest of my life, and working alongside Alina was amazing!! My class visited her just the other day and got to see all of the different things she can make, and I got to try her version of my favorite thing, CUPCAKES!!
Thanks so much for taking my entry into this contest!!! That book looks SO CUTE!!
my email address is
ixheartxthexduke@yahoo.com
thanks again!!!
What a cool looking book! My favorite decorating memory is making cannoli with my Nonna. She made the shells and the filling and I got to decorate the ends with chocolate sprinkles and crushed pistachios. I remember licking the bowl and spoons clean. That sweet filling was my favorite part.
Oops almost forgot email: ghenne64@gmail.com
I just realized that I rarely ever take the time to decorate a cake, i love to frost and toss on cute sprinkles but other than that I am usually just too excited to actually eat the cake! I think my favorite cake decorating moment though is back when I was only about 10 years old, for my birthday my parents made me a pumpkin cake (my birthday is the day after halloween) and I absolutely loved mixing up frosting to get the perfect shade of orange to frost the pumpkin and green for the stem. It ended up looking and tasting delicious and the memory of decorating it with my parents makes it all the better!
H11M01W88@hotmail.com
HELLO THERE, THANKS FOR THIS AWESOME BLOG CANDY, I REMEMBER AS A KID MY FAVORITE WAS 'CLOWNS' ALWAYS FOR HAVING A CLOWN CAKE IT MEANS "'HAPPY" TFS.....GINA
kikyflorencia@aol.com
my cake decorating memories are all recent as i dont ever remember baking with my mom as a kid. i remember her making me cupcakes when i turned 5 but thats it.
so my favorite memory as of today is when i made my friends daughter her 1st bday cake. it was in the shape of a bear. i spent so much time decorating it and it was destroying in seconds. which made me very happy.
id love to add this book to my cookbook collection. it looks really cute!
kristinausk at gmail
My favorite memory turned out horribly, actually :) I tried to make a chocolate red wine cake for my mom and decorate like a basket of flowers. The cake started to fall apart, but I managed to keep it together with frosting. The frosting was supposed to be a grass green color, and ended up looking like Slimer from Ghostbusters. However, the royal icing sunflowers I made turned out awesome, and looked great on the cupcakes I ended up making :)
shivymiller16 at gmail
My favorite decorating moment came recently when I successfully did a fondant covered cake and made a fondant bow to top it. I was very proud of the cake.
jayspicecrunksdaily@gmail.com
Ahh...my fondest memory of cake decorating. That would have to be my wedding this past July. I wanted everything to have a personal touch plus making sure that everyone was comfortable. Including my nieces and nephews who were allergic to either wheat, eggs, milk, and nuts. Let me tell you, baking was my destressor. I loved every min of it. There were times that that I wanted to cry through out this whole planning. Making 600 sugar paste flowers plus making my own wedding cake topper. I am not a very tradtional bride so instead of a husband and wife topper, I scuplted my two wonderful doggies to put on the cake. Everyone thought I was crazy, but it was something that I wanted to do. The moment that made it for me was walking into the reception hall and seeing my masterpiece come to life. My cousin was so impressed with the cupcake that she wants to me help her with her wedding.
I love you blog and look forward to getting the noticiations through my email. Its my reason to take the 15 min break during work. :)
Linda
homlinda@gmail.com
My favorite memory so far is a recent one. My daughter just learned to crack eggs and she was so happy that she could do it. I was so proud. She still gets shell in there sometimes but hey for a 5 year old she's doing awesome.
jilaneeaf@yahoo.com
Jill
What an awesome idea!
Thanks!
My favorite cake moment was when I baked a cake for my daughter's birthday. I made it to look just like her plates. It was sooo cute!
(CUPCAKES TO MATCH!). A few children from her school came, I didn't know their parents very well. One of the moms came up and asked me who I had make the cake. She said that it was SOO awesome and looked so much like the plate that she wanted to use them for her daughters cake this year. She was shocked when I told her I made it. It was nice for all my hard work to be noticed in such a positive way! Not to mention my daughter was thrilled! She calls me the best cake mama in the world! Can't beat that!
missys30@bellsouth.net
Ooooh, this book looks great!
My favorite recent cake decorating moments include my 18 mo old son. He LOVES it (and has since he was just a babe) when I take out the Kitchen Aid Mixer to make the frostings. He now says "brrm, brrrrrm" when he sees it, claps when it mixes, and even wants to help stir.
email- h_hamilton3 at yahoo dot com
My favorite cake-decorating moment was for my daughter's birthdays last year. Their birthdays are only a month apart, so we tend to combine their party. They each agreed they wanted a butterfly cake. First, I baked one white cake and one chocolate cake in my heart-shaped pan. After they cooled, I trimmed off the "v-point" of each heart, and pushed the flat edges together. This formed the wings. Then I took the "points" that I had cut off, and placed them facing each other on top of the wings to form the butterfly body. I frosted the whole thing with lavender-colored buttercream, and sprinkled on some iridescent colored sugar. It was a huge hit! I was pretty proud that I was able to invent a cake without spending the extra cash for a specialty pan.
Thanks for the contest offer! My kids are little, so I have many more birthday cakes to look forward to! :)
Julie
email: ontheneedle@aol.com
My favorite cake decorating moment is from back in the (very) early '80s. My mom used to make all the cakes for my cousins' birthday parties. Back then, shaped character cake pans were all the rage. There was a store in Michigan you could rent the pans from for special occasions. For my cousin Christopher's birthday, he wanted a cake shaped like a van. We decided we'd cut out a picture of his head to put in the driver's side window of the cake. I remember my mom's mixer was the stand kind (no Kitchen Aid, yet) and my little sister and I put his "head" on the spinner where the bowl went. We must have spun him around for 10 minutes and just laughed... Okay, a weird memory I know, but it's mine!
Good luck to everyone entering this contest - the book looks awesome.
mom2ross@gmail.com
My favorite cake decorating memory is when I was little and my grandma and I made a birthday cake for my older sister. It was a beach scene with brown sugar sand and Teddy Grahams sprawled out on Fruit Stripes gum towels with little umbrellas.
laurenmcginnis@gmail.com
I decorated a cake for my sister's 21st birthday that was the exact same flower design as the matching tattoos we'd gotten earlier that day. She cried, I cried, and it was awesome. :)
tpeden326 at gmail dot com
I would love to win a copy of this fun book! BUT...I don't have a favorite cake decorating moment because I haven't done much of it. Although...I did make some really yummy Banana Pudding filled cupcakes and I topped them with Cool Whip and then put mini 'Nilla Wafers on them and they looked SO cute! Or...I could tell you about the tea pot cake that my wonderful husband made me for my birthday one year! It looked like a Mary Engelbreit Tea Pot! He did an amazing job and he had never decorated a cake before in his life! It was even the shape of a real tea pot!
Hi.
My favorite cake decorating moment was building and then frosting a "baby blocks" cake for my son's first birthday. It was the first time I made cake, period, and I took on the task of a shaped cake. I'm not so sane in the head. :) It was not the best looking thing but it was edible, and it made the first birthday more memorable.
Love the idea of this book! Looks like it could create some great memories just by using it to make some great treats!
My favorite cake experience has to be the fact that I learned as a young girl to decorate cakes from my mother, who kept a photo album of all her cakes she had created for everyone, and she helped me start my photo album of all the cakes I have made, and now it's going on it's third generation to now I take pictures of my daughters creations! We love to bake together!! Theres no better way to connect with your children than to spend hours in a kitchen creating a masterpiece of a dish! I also have a memory of my daughter when she was age 5, I had left her alone for just a second in the kitchen while making her birthday cake and I hadn't given her the green light to lick the empty bowl from the chocolate mix yet, and when I came back in the room, she had the rim of the bowl imprinted on her forehead and chin to where she had tried to sneak a lick and thought no one would know. I was laughing way too hard to get on to her!
Amy Booker
bookerswife@earthlink.net
Oops. forgot the email.
kverbenko @ gmail . com
My favorite cake decorating moment...
was the first cake I ever decorated. It was for my first child's first birthday. I've never felt so proud and was hooked from that moment.I can't believe how great decorating cakes makes me feel. It's like a drug. Thanks for having this contest and letting me enter.
My email is: crtnyfamily@yahoo.com
Well, Cassie, it is very awesome that you're being chosen to promote these books...and by publishers too!!
My favorite cake decorating moment was 3 Christmases ago when my (then 3 yr. old) daughter and I decorated a cake for Jesus' birthday. It had GIANT swirls of buttercream frosting on top, and we crushed up candy canes and gently pressed them into the sides. On top of the giant swirls, we nested even more candy canes! We giggled and laughed and squirted frosting on our fingers to continually taste-test it and "make sure it is yummy"...
It was a wonderful cake decorating memory and the cake was so sweet and delicious. The cake itself was chocolate and vanilla checkerboard, and it was a 2 layer round cake. But the most fun was the time with my little girl and then taking pictures of it when we were done!
There is nothing else that can match the fun that happens when we're making memories that revolve around food!
clairestuckey at sbcglobal dot net
My favorite decorating moment has to be the cakes that my aunt used to make for my birthdays when I was a little girl. I had some of the cutest character cakes and I always loved the Barbie cake where the cake was her dress. She would create these treasures by squeezing through a star shaped tip. Each star was like one little point or pixel with them all together to make up the big picture.
nettajean3579@hotmail.com
My favorite cake decorating moment was when I was little and my mom would make me fun bday cakes. One year, she made me a giant Hello Kitty cake- she copied the figure from a Hello Kitty wallet I had. She's so artistic and built my love for the art!
jodie.williams at gmail dot com
This book looks like sooooo much fun! My favorite memory is making my daughters 2nd birthday cake. My son, who was 5 at the time, helped me. He took his part so seriously. He wanted to make the best cake for his sister. I frosted the cake and he helped with the decorations.He knew she loved Dora, so he drew a huge Dora on the cake. It actually was pretty good. Needless to say she LOVED the cake. Those are the memories I wouldn't give up for anything!
My email is:
mauricio898@aol.com
What a great book! I'm always looking for ideas for fun kid's cakes.
My favorite cake decorating moment happens to be a Halloween cake I made. I made a dark devil's food cake in a 9x11 pan, covered it with fudge frosting, and then spread crushed Oreo cookies all over it to look like dirt. Then I used some Milano cookies as headstones, and stuck them 1/3 of the way in the cake to make a graveyard. (just wrote "BOO!" on the headstones... I didn't want to scare or insult anyone by putting names on them) Then I added some candy pumpkins with green icing vines, and some pretzel stick fences... and it came out great! It's perfect for this time of year, and a fun family project.
Thanks for the information on the new book, and for giving us an opportunity to win one for ourselves!
Oops! My email:
kimberlyscampbell@hotmail.com
The first time I made a cake from scratch I was in 5th grade. My mom kept the powder sugar and corn starch in yellow tupperware containers. She told me the powder sugar was on top. So I made the cake tasted really good then I went on to make the icing. Made it up dyed it yellow and iced the cake. That night after dinner we cut the cake and then everyone go this look on their face like this is bad. My mom goes I think that you used corn starch. Opps. Running joke in my family. I hope I never do that again. Can you imagine giving someone a cake with icing made out of corn starch. Or I can top that with my mom was mixing something up in her KA mixer. I had really long hair. It was not pulled back like it was supposed to be. I stuck my head a little to close and my hair got caught and ended up around the beater. Oh my did that hurt.
This book would be great to have!! I have a 2year old that loves to help me bake.
Thanks
Melissa
mlh1217@comcast.net
This is such a cute book!! My email is KatieJones7@gmail.com
My favorite cake decorating memory is when my best friend and I tried to make a king cake for a Mardi Gras party we had when we were roommates in college. We decorated it in Mardi Gras colors and it was beautiful. Later, (30 minutes before our guests were supposed to arrive)it just crumbled into the center...it seriously looked like an earthquake had happened in our cake....it was awful looking but it still tasted good and it still got eaten.
I've made many cakes professionally and always enjoy the responses I get from people who see their cake, but my favorite memory was this year when I made my 7 year old daugther's birthday cake. I made her a simple coconut cake with berry preserves and decided a simple whip topping would be best on it rather than buttercream and I went further with the fruity theme and cut orange slices and then cut those in half, she and I made an orange slice border around her cake and she touched my hand (the one that held the piping bag in it) and asked if she could write on it, and at first I thought, NO because it would not look as nice, but then I thought, who cares? It's going to be a sweet cake anyway with her little decorator's touch, so I let her pipe out "Happy Birthday" and then her name and yes, some of the letters were thicker or too thin and some were smaller or too big, but somehow having my daughter help me and add the finishing touch to it made it a very awesome cake to look at. Plus it tasted great!
giarcher@gmail.com
My own mother would make our birthday cakes every year, which became a cherished tradition in our home. I especially loved the Barbie doll dress cake and remember it as my favorite! I'm just staring my first cake decorating class to carry on the tradition with my kids. This book would be SO great to have!
Thank you!
sandiblondehair@hotmail.com
I Love to decorate cakes. It is my new favorite thing. I will volunteer for any one to make them a fun- and unique- birthday cake. My Favorite was the one I made for my sister's 16th Birthday- She loves sharks- So I made a shark cake for her- it look liked Jaws coming out of the water. Way fun
Thanks for this Contest
andrea_measom@hotmail.com
i'm excited for the book! my favorite cake decorating memory is when my aunt made me a castle cake complete with a tin-foil wrapped ken doll and a graham cracker draw bridge. it was so great! thanks.
mehndimegs(at)gmail.com
Yay for giveaways! Thank you for hosting! :)
My favorite cake-decorating memory has got to be the train cakes of my childhood. My dad and sister and I would cut up a normal cake into chunks and build a train out of it. It'd have peppermints for wheels, that sort of thing. Happy days.
wieeinlied[at]hotmail[dot]com
Lucky! I love the first Confetti Cakes book. My favorite decorating memory was making a catfish cake for my brother-in-law. I'd never even seen a live catfish, so my husband found images online and printed every catfish angle while I molded and painted fondant until it looked like we had a live catfish sitting on top of the cake. Completely insane. ;)
My favorite memory of cake decorating was for my daughter's first birthday. I made a cake and decorated it with things pertaining to Elmo. I wasn't the best looking cake, but oh well. For her, I made a cupcake that looked like Elmo's face. For her third birthday, she helped frost her own cake and loves sprinkles, so much she uses them on pancakes and waffles, too!!
Amber
ber_982@yahoo.com
I would love copy of this book. I work at an elementary school and one of the things I talk about a lot is cooking. I can't wait to be baking with my own children. I found your website in the past three months and LOVE checking it everyday for new ideas. I even passed it around to some other teachers who I know LOVE to bake. We talk about it over lunch all the time!!!
ktduncan21@gmail.com
My favorite cake decorating memory recently was when I was working at Chautaqua Institution as the sous chef. The staff split into groups and each week a group planned a surprise. When my group was up the baker and I decided to make a special cake. A bat had gotten into the staff housing that week and scared us all so we made a bat cake. It was my first specialty shape cake. I have decorated many cakes with my family but never anything like this. The baker taught me how to cut each section of the cakes and put them together for a big bat. Then we got to decorate it. The staff loved it!!!
We did many different food surprises that summer. Ice cream gutters to bat cakes we had it all!!!
My favorite cake decorating moment... I have only done basic decorating so every time I do it is exciting to me cause I try to broaden my horizons. I think my favorite was frosting cupcakes with a bag that made it look like blogger cupcakes. :) I was proud.
doan98 at aol.com
My favorite moment was when I created a sushi cake, and people thought it was actual sushi! (Maybe they were just humoring me, but, I enjoyed it anyway!)
email is gina.stanton@gmail.com :)
Hi,My name is Jackie. that book looks awesome!
My fav moment:
I was making SMBC Buttercream roses for a cake. It go too soft, and I kept hardening
it in he fridge, but it got to hard, and I microwaved it, but then it got too soft. Now, I just do ev everything but the rose, because i'm experienced at it, and I can do in a jiffy, so it would'nt get soft,it was funny! by the way, I've been reading your blog since the beginnig of 2008! yOURE AWESOME!!!! eMAIL: jackie_mad2003@yahoo.com thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi there! Thanks for hosting such a fun giveaway!! I've got one going on over at my blog too!
My favorite cake decorating memory... my mom decorated cakes as a side job when I was a kid. I LOVED watching her work! I also LOVED watching her mix all of the different colors of frosting. Even though I knew that they all tasted the same, I always had to sneak a taste of every color. I'm a frosting addict to this day!!
Julie
djmb.weller@verizon.net
I love baking books!
I have a great memory of making a cake for my son's first bday. It was before my cupcake days and it had tons of little cupcake on it! It was from a bon appetite cover. Mine wasn't as perfect, but definately cute!.
thanks!
lisa
lmsmiley@surewest.net
My Favorite Cake decorating moment
Baking a cake for my mothers birthday, it turning out fine... then tearing it to shred trying to frost it. The end result looked terrible, but it's the thought that counts right!?
My favorite cake decorating moment goes way back to when I was 5. I loved strawberry shortcake and my mom and I decorated my birthday cake with strawberries and Strawberry Shortcake made out of this sugar candy stuff we bought at the store.
kamailesfood[at]gmail[dot]com
That book looks so cute! one time, my friend and i had to make a cake for our annual senior party and we made a large pool cake with m&m lanelines and everything. The first time we trid to put jello for teh water, the jello began dissolving all the decorations and it was a distaster. The next day really quickly we ahve to refondant and redecorate the whole cake, but it turned out really cool in the end.
Thanks! 0itsme0@gmail.com
This is such an awesome looking book! My daughter and I would have tons of fun with it!
jenademarco@cox.net
Thanks!!
I have wonderful memories of every decorating moment, even the ones that made me curse! Picking one is so difficult, like making the perfect rose! But I do have a standout that popped into my head reading your blog...I started baking at the age of 12 and one of the first things I baked was my own birthday cake! My mother let me bake and decorate as I saw fit and though looking back the decorations were not in the least professional (who would have thought????), but it was all by me and I still love the pictures of that crazy Garfield cake! I still bake my own cake every year!
jennifertuttle@bellsouth.net
hmmmm. my favorite memory to cake decorating is when i was making frosting a red velvet cake for my grandparents. I'd watched so many videos on how to do it and it took me about 2 hours because i was trying to get it perfect :) it was so fun because we made a lazy susan out of a rolling chair thing. anywayss, that book sounds cool :)
One of my favorite cake memories was when my sister tried to bake the "only cake in the world that makes its own chocolate icing", but she really can't bake. Everything went well until she took it out of the oven and tried to take it out of the pans while they were still really hot, so one layer came out in soft goey chunks (she undercooked it as well). Then she tried to frost the mangled layers while they were still pretty warm causing the icing to melt and the cake to break apart even more. In the end it looked like someone had pulled it all apart and stirred it together and mounded it back on the plate. (whenever someone wanted some, they just grabbed a spoon and ate from the plate-tres communal) It still tasted amazing as always, but the whole time I was sitting on a stool watching her and I wasn't allowed to say anything to help as she wanted to do herself. Afterwards she asked for pointers. It was nice just to bond with her over something I really enjoy doing, which she enjoyed too.
merrow@hotmail.com
Hi, I love Elisa Strauss's cakes. I have two small girls and they love to be in the kitchen so baking has been our girl thing for a while now and cupcakes is our most favorite thing to do. My best time of the day is when we are in the kitchen all together gathering memories. My name is Wanda and e-mail: wanda_paloma@hotmail.com
My favorite cake decorating times have been with my 5 year old daughter trying different things, sometimes just frosting and covering the cake with as many sprinkles as we can. It is just fun to be with her.
My favorite cake decorating memory would have to be when I was younger. My mom was just getting into decorating cakes for my sister and my birthday. Well, we wanted to pretend we were here. So, we took her bags of icing and started 'decorating.' I think it looked more like a science experiment more than a cake.
When our mom had found out what we had done, she just laughed. We ended up eating that cake for our birthday. She got compliments on it from the kids at our birthday party. It was a good thing in our young eyes.
orcgestratenoise0726[at]yahoo[dot]com
My daughter and I have decorated a few cakes for birthdays, but they haven't turned out like they do in the stores
s2s2(at)comcast(dot)net
My favorite cake decorating moment happened last year. For one of the Muslim holidays, known as the Feast of Sacrifice, we have to sacrifice a sheep...and eat it. I preferred a cake shaped like a sheep.
So, I made a 12' cake, an 8' cake and 2 cupcakes.
I placed the 12' cake on bottom, cut out ears and a head from the 8' cake and placed it on top of the 12' cake, and used the cupcakes as feet.
Decorating it was the fun part. I used a piping bad and a star nozzle to frost the "WOOL" part of the sheep. I used vanilla frosting.
Then I used the same gadgets for the head and feet, except I used chocolate frosting. Then, I covered the body of the sheep with white chocolate chips, and then head and feet with milk chocolate chips.
I used peanut butter chocolate chips for the nose, and banana slices for the eyes, with a chocolate chip in the middle.
Heres a picture.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2csibzc&s=4
My email is noor_el_iman08@yahoo.com
My favorite cake memory was making a large cupcake cake for my daughter's first birthday. The best part was watching her dig in with her hands.
My email is blueoval3@cox.net
My favorite cake decorating moment is a cake that I made my kids for thier first day of school in the shape of a crayola box. The kids were thrilled with it and I have to say, not being a too experienced baker, the cake came out really great.
Thanks so much for this giveaway. Would love to win this. This sounds like fun. Thanks.
CViel21 at aol dot com
Most favorite cake decorating momen was helping my mom make my care bear cake for my birthday (Care is my nickname since my name is Carrie) I wanted to make it perfect - because the boy I liked was coming to my party (I was in 1st grade!) and he didn't end up coming, because he put a staple through his hand and had to go to the emergency room! I was devistated!
My decorating memory occurred on my daughter's 4th birthday. Barbie was definitely the 'in' thing at the time and I decided to make her a Barbie cake. To me, it was a complete disaster. However, she thought it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. I learned that I needed instructions to partake in cake decorating activities.
cathyandharold[at]verizon[dot]net
My favorite cake decorating moment was the first time that I used fondant on a cake. It infuriated me to where I wanted to toss the cake in the trash, but I persevered and it turned out a-okay!
jrv3@buffalo.edu
hi this book looks oh so cute!
my favorite decorating moments are those with my 8 year old daughter- she loves to help me and just knowing she will remember these days when she's older make all the projects worthwhile :)
my mom used to decorate cakes for a living, i'd love to make a nice one for her
Thats hard. I dont remember making many cakes as a kid. Mostly pies with my Grandmas. But when the baking bug hit me, I was living with one set of my grandparents. I often tried layer cakes in funky flavors. They were never decorated fantastically. Very simply with kind of swirly frosting. But my Grand-dad always made such a fuss over how good they were, whether they were or not. Layer cakes always make me think of him.
well we were making cakes for a centerpiece and one to cut and I just could not get the one to look good so we knew we were serving the other one in the kitchen so we spraypainted it so the color was smooth..yep spraypainted then took craft paint and painted the flowers on- looked good and they all thought it was such pretty icing! Mrs.Mommyyatgmaildotcom
my mother always let us help decorate our own birthday cake. it didn't matter how bad it looked. it was the love that counted
lora@ianstrawn.com
My husband wanted a funky alien/monster cake for his 28th birthday (he is not as mature as he thinks he is). I had never decorated a cake before and was very nervous. I bought candy, poked the cake with toothpicks and used ziplock bags for frosting decorating (no decorating tools at this point). My husband thought I had hung the moon!
It looks like a really cute book. My son's birthday is next month and I'm thinking about making a character cake for his birthday party.
My favorite cake decorating moment took place when my husband and I were newlyweds. I signed up for a cake decorating class through the community and bought all of my tips and cake supplies for cake decorating. For Valentine's Day, I made a heart cake (2 layers) and used pink frosting (which I shaded myself). I decorated the cake along the edges and wrote a personal message in the middle to my husband. He loved it! And I was proud of it also :)
My blog is :
http://shannonthedomesticgoddess101.blogspot.com/
You can email me at themommyfiles@gmail.com
Thanks :)
Watching my daughter decorate her own b-day cake when she was six.
gkstratos@yahoo.com
My fave cake decorating memory was when I made my son's first birthday cake. It was suppossed to be a horseshoe cake (as his birthday had a barn theme) but it came out looking a little sad ... so I simply added lots of plastic horses to the cake and made it look like a horse pasture that was U shaped. I was just so proud that I made his cake instead of purchasing it as WalMart or something.
Anyway, I would love to win this book. Thanks.
~ Jodi
jrenshaw@hotmail.com
www.thishandmadelife.blogspot.com
my favorite moment is ALWAYS when my three year old and two year old sqeelezzzzzzzzz with delight! (at the finished product) that makes me so happy. Even my ugly spongebob cake they loved so much and it was horrid. I would love to win this book
I love cupcakes and this book looks like a lot of fun.
What a fun book! By far my most memorable decorating moment came when I made a yule log for the first time. A Martha Stewart yule log, no less! Needless to say, it was pretty daunting, down to the merengue mushrooms. It used a swiss buttercream frosting and a mocha filling. Rolling the thing up while keeping the filling fairly intact seemed like a huge accomplishment. In the end, it was SO delicious, thought I don't know if I have it in me to make it again....
Jen
vaughanjc@gmail.com
I would love to win! I just started learning how to decorate cakes and make them! This book would help!
While I've made many cakes I'm very proud of, my favorite memory has to be the kitty litter cake that my boys and I made for a Halloween party a couple of years ago... never had so much fun with 2 little boys decorating a "cake" with tootsie rolls! Not elegant or beautiful, but a whole lot of fun!
mdfaraday@gmail.com
My favorite memory is my first cake ever. For some reason I thought it was fine to make a sculpted cake without having ever baked a single cake before.
Well it was bad, but I was determined to follow my dream, and so for that first year my darling sister paid me $50 to make each of her children's cakes, even though they were rock hard pound cake that wasn't even cooked through and yet weighed about 50 pounds.
I love this because it reminds me just how far I've come, and how reading one sculpted cake book lead me to start the baking adventure of a lifetime.
My passion came overnight, but the skill, well, I believe that will always be a work in progress. There's always more to learn.
jvhanderson@msn.com
My favorite cake decorating moment:
Making my son's 2nd birthday cake. I picked a design from a book, studied every detail and taught myself the techniques it took to make that cake for 2 months. I was so incredibly proud of the finished product and my son's reaction was priceless!!
desndj0210@yahoo.com
I think my favorite cake decorating project was just a few weeks ago. My daughter asked for a cake from the show Dr. Who...the old one, not the new (anyone old enough to remember that??). Specifically, she wanted a robot alien thingy called a Dalek. I made six layers of homemade pound cake and untold amounts of butter cream and made a pretty convincing free standing Dalek. It was fun :-) My email address is lotsakids at gmail. Thanks! Jenny in Korea
Hello! I followed a link and ended up on your amazing blog! My favorite cake decorating memory is decorating my son's 2nd birthday cake in May! It took SO much more time than I thought and I ended up working on "the big truck" through the night. It turned out pretty good. I loved doing it and want to continue to pursue this new hobby. Check out the picture of it here http://jaxon2006.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-did-it.html My email is ksjenn71@aol.com
thanks
Nothing like watching mny daughter make a cake with my mom, like i did when i was a kid.
1agordon[at]roadrunner.com
growing up, my mom would make wedding cakes for family and friends, with the extra frosting she would squirt it in our mouths, and now i am doing the same for my kids! they LOVe it (as do i)
tami@carpentiere.net
I was trying to make a dinosaur cake. I have no artistic talents. My husband had to save me.
Thanks so much for the chance to win -- this book looks fabulous -- and adorable! I always remember my husband and I trying to make and decorate these great themed cakes for our chldren's first birthdays. With little artistic talent between us, the appearance was questionable but they were definitely filled with love! I think the book is just what we need!
arbrashears (at) msn (dot)com
This book looks adorable. :)
My favorite cupcake decorating moment would have to be several moments, I guess. I'm a grad student at UMaine and I've become known as the girl with the cupcakes. I make cupcakes once a week and take them to the office, to class, to reading events, wherever.
Probably the cutest cupcakes I have made and decorated were pink lemonade cupcakes. They had frozen concentrate in the batter and the frosting, so the taste was spot on. In order to give a nod to the drink aspect, I shoved pieces of straws in the tops of the cupcakes. Too many of my friends and colleagues made the "Am I supposed to drink them?!" joke while sucking furiously on the tiny straws. :)
amanda.j.hedrick@gmail.com
When I was 11 I made a birthday cake for my mom. It fell in the middle so I just filled the hole with frosting. My mom pretended to love it!
I love making cakes for my kids birthdays. It just makes it more special.
rebbi511 at peoplepc.com
How nice! I'm not entering the contest, but just wanted to share that I've met Elisa and she is a lovely person!! I wish her every success with her fabulous book. Whoever wins - enjoy!
i made my boyfriend for his 17th birthday your chocolate mint cupcakes with mint smbc. i brought one to school on his actual birthday in a chinese take-out box (not used of course) with cupcake stickers all over it. he loved the cupcakes so much, he even bakes with me now. and he still has the chinese take-out box on his night stand because he thought it was so cute. your blog is so awesome cassie, that so wonderful you're working at a bakery now!
good luck to everyone <3
Elizabeth
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I am a subscriber.
My favorite decorating story is the day I made my best friend's baby shower cakes. My little 1 year old was "helping" She had cake icing everywhere and looked so cute! I had to think just how many days of joy my friend had to look forward to.
I made a doll cake for a party. I guess I made it too good. Everyone thought that it was just a deocoration and no ate it.
I'd love to add this to my collection, this book looks great!
My favorite decorating moment would have to be making my daughter's third birthday cupcakes. The frosting came out fabulous, and it swirled on flawlessly...people thought I had them professionally made!
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email: maggieblogs@gmail.com
memory: When Gram was still alive, she used to decorate cakes and cookies with me. My memory has little to do with the artistic side of the experience and everything to do with the happiness that went along with it all. I had the best of times with her.
email: lynneskitchen@yahoo.com
I remember helping my mom makes cakes when I was little. She made wedding cakes for friends and family. I begged her to make one for me. She had enough batter left over to make a little sheet cake. She let me add the icing color of my choice to her amazing buttercream frosting. We ended up with a really cute Halloween cake, complete with a plastic witch and purple stars and border.
Fun book, would like to have this.
wow, I have 2 answers lol
For me, I loved making icing roses. I had these home made things, beer bottle tops with a nail attached and I would put the sharp end of the nail through an egg carton and then throw em in the freezer for a bit before putting them on a cake!
When I was a kid, I remember my mom asking me what colour I wanted my cake to be and I chose blue. Well, my mom had three little kids at the time and somehow put WAY too much colouring in the cake and my cake was blue blue blue.....when we cut it open, people were shocked!!
Thanks for the giveaway!
nancyrobster@gmail.com
My favorite cake decorating memories are making the wedding cakes for my two stepdaughters--one traveled from Chicago to Arkansas (arriving in beautiful condition) and the other traveled to the suburbs of Chicago in a horrible ice and snow storm(also arriving in great condition!)I was so thankful!!!
I've enjoyed the original "Confetti Cakes" book so much that it's worn out from use!
Sandy Hillis
sjhillis@sbcglobal.net
I would say decorating sugar cookies for Easter with very detailed designs. My kids loved them and I was so proud of how they turned out considering that I've just gotten into baking & decorating.
aluv2bake@yahoo.com
the time i rember was when i was a kid and well i tryed to mak my own birth day cark look as pretty as the ones you seein the bake shop but well i did not do so good so my big sister from the bigsister's porgram here in my home town well she made me a cake and also made it up nice so unsted of one cake well i had 2 and well it work out realy nice and well i love to try and win this it looks like it would be a realy nice book to have thanks
My favorite cake memory is getting to pick out what cake I wanted for my birthday and then helping my mom make it for me.
my email addres is jared.petersen@gmail.com
Ohhh, my favorite cake decorating moment. My daughter's first birthday. Never have I taken soo much time delicately making the cake with just the best ingredients, then decorating it so that everything was just perfect and pink and perfect for a 1 year old birthday extravaganza...only to have her take one bite, grimace, and through the rest on the floor... such a wonderful memory. ;)
Great contest and blog, I am coming back later tonight to start from the beginning! :)
suzi from Pink Vanilla Cupcakes
http://pinkvanillacupcakes.blogspot.com
suzimagill@gmail.com
First of all let me tell you how awesome I think your blog is! I read it all the time! My favorite baking memories always goes back to my Yia Yia's kitchen when she would bake all the delicious Greek pastries and breads. She's 90 now and doesn't do much baking so I try and do as much as I can for her as she did for me and my sister. I just hope that one day I will be able to remember as many recipes by heart as she does. It's because of her that I have such a love of baking.
Email: krisont08@comcast.net
Great giveaway. This really looks like a fun book. I'm not the best cake decorator, but I do remember making my son an Teddy Bear cake for his 2nd birthday. It was pretty easy, but it came out looking really cute and my son just loved it.
The best memory I have is making tiered old mcdonald cake decorating the tiers with piped farm animal figures. It was a great idea that turned out as a great cake!
The book definitely looks like it has some great ideas! my email is:
aadkins74 at gmail dot com
my favorite memory was of my mom making wedding cakes for all of her close friends. and only her close friends.
my favorite memory was always decorating cupcakes at our birthday parties... lots of frosting!
jansanderson@sisna.com
My fav cake decorating moment was making a Shire cake for my bff.
Looks like a great book! I'm always looking for fun cake ideas.
My favorite cake decorating memory was the first time I brought a decorated cake home from a Wilton class. It was a mermaid cake and my 3 little girls were just so excited! They loved the cake even though it wasn't the best looking.
My email is shaleza71@hotmail.com
Thanks for the contest!
My favorite memory of cake decorating involves the Easy Bake oven I got for Christmas when I was about 8 or 9. I wanted one so badly and I used it all the time to make and decorate little cakes. Thanks for the giveaway!
braaisjo at gmail dot com
My favorite so far was the Totoro cake I made a few years ago for my husband's birthday. He helped as well, making the cutest black soot sprites as decorations on the cake tray.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Heather: monsteratemy@gmailDOTcom
my favorite cake decorating memeory....
hmmm... well, last year i decided that i didn't want a birthday party, which my friends weren't to keen on. so on my birthday they threw me a small but sincere shin dig with the BEST cake ever..... i only got to put the finishing touch on (the candles of course) but it was so sweet of them to make a home-made cake for me and cover it with every candy imaginable :D
P.S. my email is acupcakepirate@gmail.com
How exciting! I've just recently started with cake decorating classes & I must say I'm hooked! I'm having a ball. If I had to pick a favorite though, I'd have to go with the purse cake I made for my niece's birthday party. She's a purse girl & loved it!
I can be reached at tarynchadwick(at)hotmail(dot)com
Thanks!
Just found your blog by clicking away and have already added you to my blog list since I see so much more I *must* catch up on.
My favorite decorating memory is when the girls were little while I worked on the large gingerbread house they decorated their own graham cracker houses that were so disgustingly sweet but they LOVED them and had so much fun, always eating more than they decorated with.
Some messes are totally worth it, baking and decorating with your kids definitely make it all worthwhile.
My favorite memory of cake decorating is the time I spent the entire day making an elaborate castle cake for my daughter's third birthday. It was really hot that day and the cake collapsed. My daughter hadn't seen it yet, but when she did, she was so excited about it even though it was a mess! That was so sweet!
My favorite memory is when my sis and I got cake icing all over the kitchen! We had to clean it up before our mom would let us eat the cake we made. It sounds like a chore, but we had so much fun laughing that day, that I will cherish that memory forever.
Deb K
chipper101@hotmail.com
This book looks great!
I recently took a cake decorating class with my mom and we had our share of cakes to decorate, and every class we were so stressed out to get it just perfect, but we always had so much fun. But I would have to say the best cake decorating moment was making my sons first birthday cake which was Pablo from the backyardigans. Pablo was and still is his favorite character. The look on his face when he saw the cake for the first time was the best moment. He still gets excited when he sees pictures of the cake. I have continued to make his cakes every year even though they always take me days and cause me stress, but every year when he sees his cakes for the first time his face is priceless, and it makes it all worth it.
Thanks
pinto_shanna@hotmail.com
Hmm.. this is a toughy... but I guess my favorite cake decorating memory would be making my first princess castle cake.. it was looking not so hot and I was pretty darn sad.. but about the last 30 minutes it totally came together and all of my hardwork totally paid off.
-Yvette
miss_yvette66@hotmail.com
I love all cake decorating memories that include me and my mom decorating together. I have taught her basic applications and lingo. She used to call a piping bag a frost tool- it would take me forever to get what she was talking about. We have so much fun.
lucy sexxygirl66@aol.com
This isn't technically a cake decorating memory, but we were making chocolate decorations for cakes!
I'm in culinary school in Dallas. A friend/group member of mine was blowing up balloons for our chocolate cups. Well, apparently he blew up too many and got a little light headed when he was walking back to our table. All of a sudden we turn around and he's falling... right into our dry erase board, then on to his face. We run to him to see if he's alright. He wakes up and asks what just happened. All we could say was "wow, you are f-ed up." lol Let's just say we called 911 and he went to the hospital. In all he had 32 stitches on his face and a broken nose. Poor guy.
:] We laugh about it now, but his cuts are still healing!
My email is:
Amandamichelle_smith@yahoo.com
Thanks for this giveaway! This book is awesome! :]
What a neat book.
My favorite decorating moment was when a construction worker friend of my husbands stopped in when I was decorating a cat cake and he said that looked easy so I gave him a decorating bag and told him to have go at it. :) He did a great job.
Thanks for the contest.
Susie
susies AT twcny DOT rr DOT com
My favorite cake decorating memory is taking cake decorating classes with my mom at our local department store (Sear if I am not mistaken).
Ooh, this book looks so cute!! I love it!
anneblanke@hotmail(dot)com
I am a beginner at making cakes for family and friends and have been so inspired by all the talented people on flickr that I have met ...
My favorite cake decorating moment came to me like a gift with my god son .... He and I were like peas and carrots (smile) he would come to my house and we would decorate cakes ..often I would bake him his very own cake to decorate as he pleased...back then I only decorated cakes as a hobby and mostly only with him. Today he is 18 and is working to get his tuition to go to pastry school. I suppose those moments between us meant as much to him as they did to me.
This is so embarrassing.
My favorite cake decorating moment was Thanksgiving 2000. We were staying at my mom's and I had been crazy tired. So I made this cute cake. And I wrote:
Happy Thansgiving. I forgot the K.
And of course we didn't notice until it was time to serve it, so I couldn't fix it.
Kristen
kristen.arland@gmail.com
I'm a beginner with cake decorating, so the best I've done was that I drew the Flying Spaghetti Monster (ramen!) in decorating gel on a frozen pumpkin cheesecake. And given all of the arms on FSM, I'm amazed I managed to do a decent job.
Awesome contest!
Jess
jessica.tupper{at}gmail.com
I have always wanted to make beautiful cakes! About 12 years ago, I made my 2 year old daughter a birthday cake, and (for once) my frosting job really looked good-almost as good as a store bought cake. I was so proud. I love, love, love this book.
harmonden[at]wowway.com
My favorite cake memory is making & decorating my first cake when I took the Wilton classes. I was so proud of myself for making something that looked that cute!
cakesbyashley at hotmail dot com
Not my own memory, but my husband's...he and his brother birthdays were very close. His mom would always make a personal cake for each of them of their favorite character. My two son's also have birthdays that are 6 days apart. I hope to continue the tradition that my mother-in-law started.
lwtjmom@att.net
Hello to my fellow bakers! My favorite decorating moment actually came from my five year old neice, Riley. She and I made cupcakes to decorate and take to our family dinner. She tinted the frosting brown (totally her choice to do this to white buttercream frosting) and said they were "poop on a cupcake" cupcakes. Too cute and the thought still makes me smile.
Lisa Fitzgerald
LML2639@comcast.net
My favorite is letting the kids help decorate the hoilday cakes.
My favorite cake decorating memory was my very first attempt at making a shaped cake. It was for my son's 2nd birthday - a Thomas the Tank Engine cake...it turned out a bit lopsided - but he didn't care a bit! His little smile filled with Thomas blue frosting and chocolate cake sparked a passion in me for creative decorating that I still have years later!
My email address is phillipsgang@gmail.com
Happy baking!
Last summer my granddaughter and I decided to make a watermelon cake. we decorated the round cake to look like a giant slice of watermelon. Using watermelon flavoring in red icing we topped the cake, and green frosting for the sides. To make those famous watermelon seeds I let my granddaughter and a friend of hers go crazy sticking semi sweet and white chocolate chips (point sides down) into the top of the cake. They were so proud we had to take a picture of it
My favorite cake decorating memory? Nothing fancy - just sitting at the dining room table with a can of frosting and my parents, slathering a box-mix cake with chocolate. My mom wasn't much of a baker, but that didn't matter. What mattered was just being with them and my sister. And licking the extra frosting out of the can :)
I remember being a little girl and watching my mom make birthday cakes a lot (since there were 8 in the family) and I remember when she showed me how to frost the cake and move the knife to create a particular pattern in the frosting. I felt so grown up when she let me do it.
doot65{at}comcast[dot]net
Elizabeth
My friends Jim and Gary made a cake in the shape of a jabeewa for my friend Bob, who said he had the big one.
theyyyguy@yahoo.com
My favorite baking memory is when I was about eight or nine I decided to make my Mom her birthday cake. It was a box recipe but I decided to try and make the chocolate icing myself. Since I refused help, and didn't know much about culinary terms, I used granulated sugar for the icing, not powdered sugar. So as you can imagine the icing was very very crunchy. I topped the whole thing off with almost a whole pound bag of M&M's in a weird design. But I was so proud when my family started eating it that no one said a word about the crunchy sandy icing. But I learned my lesson, and have since learned the difference between granulated sugar and powdered sugar.
Chrissy T.
my email is ttfn208@yahoo.com
Decorating halloween cupcakes with my Mom.
My favorite cake decorating moment comes from when I was in high school and saw a "spider cake" in the Sunday newspaper-- I spent a few days inspecting the picture to figure out what all I needed to make it, and then I got my mom to buy me all the stuff. I spent 6 hours on a Saturday afternoon creating the cake and my family raved over it (I think mainly to just give me a self-esteem boost)! Since that day I have loved baking and can't wait for my next big baking adventure to come along!
kelgirl105 at yahoo dot com
My favorite cake decorating memory would have to be when I made a "crayon" cake for my daughter's third birthday. It was the first time I ever attempted such a project and it must have been a hit! She's turning 14 this year and still talks about that cake!
Thanks for all the inspiration!
aweaver22@epix.net
I made my son a pirate ship cake for his birthday. He loved it.
Always made scratch cakes and decorated them for the kids (4 of 'em) when they were young. This would be great for my daughter and her two girls. It was always: "Are you finished yet?" because they got to lick the leftover icing! *LOL* Thanks
We didn't make too many cakes but we did frost a lot of homemade cut-out sugar cookies
My favorite memory was making my son's third birthday cake. It was a dinosaur themed cake including an edible working volcano. It was fun to make and the look on my son's face as the volcano erupted was priceless.
My favorite cake decorating memory was when I was four spending the night at my Grandma's house and we made this amazing chocolate cake and she let me decorate the whole thing by myself!
heatheranne99@hotmail.com
Actually, I never decorated cakes as a kid. The best memory I have is this last summer as I made my daughter a castle cake. It was quite the castle. I'm just a beginner, but to see her face when she saw her cake, I am definitely going to continue working on my cake decorating skills.
I love decorating cupcakes with my daughter. I bake them, let them cool and frost them and she applies sprinkles. Fun to make and eat!
My favorite cake decorating memories have got to be childhood birthday cake-baking and frosting with my mom. They were no-frills homemade cakes, but I always got to pick the flavor and I always got to lick the bowl. I'm sure those memories are at the root of my love of baking today.
Thanks for the giveaway!
My email address is andielib at yahoo dot com.
Favorite cake decorating memory:
I was in the army ROTC program. Our LTC was having a birthday. It was an EXTREMELY male dominated program, and this guy was the manliest one of them all. During our pre-dawn workout, his son, and a few other guys were plotting a surprise for him. I casually mentioned I could whip out a Barbie cake if they would like. Of course that is what we did. The cake was hidden in the medic truck at the obstacle course. Just as we were about to march off, the command came to about face instead, and everyone started singing as the cake was brought out. A Barbie cake for the Colonel. It doesn't get better than that.
seven_of_jo@yahoo.com
When I was a kid, I remember our Girl Scout Troop was celebrating the founding of scouting and I volunteered our family to make a birthday cake. I'll never forget using green food coloring to color the icing. It died my fingers. AND, it changed the color of everyones tongue who ate the cake! Green tongues are funny!
lizzauski@hotmail.com
My mom always made cakes and used her silver plated dome and glass cake dish. I knew when I came home there was something delicious under there. All I had to do was lift the dome and see! Would love to win a book since they are so expensive. I love to bake and sew, sew contact me at Sew@q.com if I should happen to get Lady Luck on my side. Thank you. Cat
My favorite cake memory was buying homemade cupcakes from my PTA in grade school. They would bake coins in some of them and we kids would look forward to finding one. You couldn't get away with something like this nowadays, though.
I am arty and crafty but cake making is not one of my fortes. I have had some bad luck with cakes. I saw a cake featured on the cover of a magazine and decided to try to make it. To everyone's surprise it came out perfect. I was so proud of myself - LOL.
What a fun book. I remember baking a cake to celebrate my first apartment, it was pathetic but oh, so good. Thanks for the giveaway.
Poofaloofa (at) gmail (dot) com
My favourite decorating moment would be the satisfaction of seeing a bouquet of pink Wilton roses set nicely on the cake, complete with border piping and sweet peas in the opposite corner! =)
nette*
lynnetteqq@yahoo.com.sg
i remember winning a cake decorating contest when I was in girl scouts many years ago!
My favorite was helping my grandmother, a professional baker,
in her shop. She taught me how to decorate and make flowers. Flowers were my favorite thing to make and still are.
My favorite memory was taking a tiered cake to a location and having to hold the cake and a towel to shield from the sun while my boyfriend's toes were almost frozen- we had the air full blast to keep the frosting in good condition... ahh... we got better at transporting cakes after that.
Vettie
sweetnessbakery@gmail.com
My favorite cake decorating moment was a couple of years ago for my granddaughter's "Winnie the Pooh" birthday party. My daughter baked the cake, and since both she and my husband are very artistic..she let "Grandpa" decorate it! What a hit it was! Lots of fun to see him do it too.
My favorite cake decorating memory is when I was a kid and got to help my mom make the little candy roses on a wedding cake that she made for my aunt!
digicat{AT}sbcglobal{DOT}net
I took a patisserie course in Paris Le Cordon Bleu. One of our last lessons was a cholocate hazelnut layer-cake (Alahambra!). The layers came out perfect, but after glazing with chocolate glaze, the cake fell on its side on the counter...
Another coat of glaze and nobody could tell there was a small accident.
My email: adiluria(at)yahoo(dot)com
hmm, my favorite cake memory...that's hard to choose. Ya know- as much as I complained about the baby shower cakes, that has to be my favorite memory. I made eight cakes (ok, technically 10, but I used eight) and had to carve, and frost them to look like baby blocks. I also made tons of homemade fondant letters (and only used eight) with her name. I was so stressed out b/c the cakes had to be delivered about 1.5 hours away, so I waited to frost them. Of course, people are showing up to the baby shower and I was still frosting. BUT the baby's mom really liked it, so it was worth it. The pictures can be found in my blog! (which isn't allowing me to sign it, so here is my blog www.carriecrocker.blogspot.com
email:emotionisalive@msn.com
Being overseas because of my hubby's work, I had to start decorating birthday cakes for my kids, since I could not buy the cakes they would have liked for their birthdays. Because of the support activities, Army and Airforce Exchange and Commissaries, I could still get my hands on ingredients I needed, so here I was, learning how to bake, decorate, make marshmallow fondant etc... Thanks to sites like yours, having a tasty cake was a breeze, but decorating...that was a different story, but without a doubt, the best experience of cake decorating - for me - was looking im my kids' eyes when they saw their cakes!
drgaddy@yahoo.com
Making red velvet cupcakes with my daughter...
Wow, this book looks great, with lots of ideas!!
My favorite memory and funniest is when I was about 13 and my mother and I were decorating a cake, which came out so beautiful! But when we tried to move it, we dropped it on the floor. Which we just both looked at eachother and laughed, cause that's all we could do.. lol
That book looks so cute!
One of my favorite decorating memories was with my mom when I was really young and we made sugar cookies. She showed me how we could color the sugar with different colors and shake it on the cookies. It was so much fun!
luvbball@gmail.com
I have never made a cake which is why I would LOVE this book! But my favorite memory is when my mom made me a Holly Hobby cake for me when I was a child. Thanks for the chance, justicecw@hotmail.com
i once made a cake with starbursts on top as presents it came out really cute :)
I'm just starting to play with cake/cupcake decorating. My mom made really great 3 little pigs cake for me though when I was about 4.
Helping my mom when I was ten make a birthday cake for my father. garrettsambo@aol.com
At four years old I helped make and decorate my first cake for my father, and that is definitely my most favorite memory, though probably the most simple.
christinaksimmons@gmail.com
Thank you for the blog & opportunity!
I don't have many cake decorating memories...but I remember the first time I attempted homemade fondant and it came out PERFECT. :)
amabbate at gmail dot com
I would have to say that my favorite "decorating edible goods memory," would have to be when I make sugar cookies with my cousins for the holidays. Its always more fun when there is someone else in the kitchen with you and I cherish those moments.
Yvette dyvette-at-gmail-dot-com
My favorite cake decorating memory is of my mom making a doll cake for me using my favorite doll! Thanks for the contest!
airalynn(@)gmail . com
My favorite memory is of a pumpkin cake I made in 6th grade. I knew I wanted it to look like a pumpkin, but wasn't sure how to go about it. I ended up frosting a bundt cake orange, and then frosting an ice cream cone green and sticking it upside down into the hole in the middle of the cake. I added some brown gel for the face, and called it a day. I was so proud of that cake! Looking back, it was kinda pathetic, but I thought it was the best!
Thanks for the chance to win!
sairabee@yahoo.com
My favorite moment or moments is when I bake anything (mostly cakes or cupcakes) that my son comes in (who is autistic) and sits and watches me decorate the cakes. He gets this "gleam" in his eyes that says "when can I have some frosting?" He has his own spatula and I give him some. He giggles and laughs, then gives me the sign language for "more" and I give him more. The look on his face is precious!!!!
Thanks for having the contest!!! The book looks great!!!
my email address:
krabby57@wi.rr.com
I was making a cake for a friend's wedding. I covered the cake with fondant and, because it was warm, the buttercream middle started to bow out. I had to come up with a quick and easy way to hide it and just started piping little dots everywhere. Simple, but effective. Transporting the cake was a whole other venture!!!!
THanks for the chance to win this great prize!
When the kids were small, I had a book that showed you how to make clowns, rabbits and other things by cutting the cake just so. Every Birthday my kids had a different shape cake.
Kathy
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Name: Kim T.
Email addy: kemenloth at hotmail dot com
Favourite cake decorating moment: Decorating dozens and dozens of mini-cupcakes for a Christmas party last December. I was using a star tip (Wilton 32, I think), and I just loved the feeling of the icing coming out of the bag onto the top of the mini-cupcakes in one beautiful, perfect swirl. Other favourite cupcake moments: the time I accidentally used a pound of butter instead of half a pound for my icing...
When my oldest turned 5, I made her a lifelike bart simpson cake. I waited until everyone fell asleep and worked on it most of the night. It was tiring, took forever but was totally worth it. It looked just like bart and my daughter was thrilled :)
making cupcakes are so much fun around halloween alot of fond memories with the kids making and decorating them
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favorite cake decorating memory: I had a new baby in February. In May, our 2nd daughter had a "sunshine" birthday party. She wanted a cake that looked like a sun (easy enough - a round layer cake with yellow frosting and fondant "rays"). Well, about three-quarters of the way through decorating the cake (using buttercream and piping stars all over the cake - easy peasy) the baby got keyed up and his Daddy just wouldn't do (didn't have the right "equipment"). So, my husband came in and said, "I'll finish the cake, you take the baby." And he did just that - he did a great job and our daughter was thrilled!
ok i'm back and i love to try and win this but well i for got my e-mail address so here it is jenny(at)yahoo d0t com
I just had a baby so I will be a decorating maniac for the next 10 years or so (until she thinks it isn't cool anymore). I don't have any memories yet. Most of my cake decorating so far has been frosting and candles.
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I have a sick sense of humor, so I thought it hysterical when my mom told me she spent several hours decorating the cake for my second birthday party, and while I was sitting on the counter admiring her work, I pushed it right off the counter and onto the floor. The cake was all mine then. I have a picture of myself with my face in that cake.
I'll never forget my first serious boyfriend- it was Valentines Day and I spent hours decorating chocolate cupcakes with hearts made out of spun sugar.
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The first memory that entered my mind was not the cake decorating itself but the fact that my mom and 2 sisters were all together, thanks.
I remember helping my mom decorate cakes.
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My favorite cake decorating memory is putting frosting on an angel food cake my dad baked.
AHH I missed this by two hours just my luck. First I get a two inch thick and long piece of wood in my booty when we went to eat today now this "sigh"
My favorite cake decorating memory - is last Christmas when I helped my soon-to-be-husband's niece and newphew make and decorate a cake. The wonder of childhood!
The book looks really cute - and I'd love to own it!
Thanks.
Sarah
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Thanks for the comment & encouragement! :-)
I am a mess with cakes! I really, really try but I've figured out that you guys are true artists!
I did make one successfully though; I made a guitar for my son by halving a round layer and baking the other parts from a layer cake.
The decorating is the fun part and I'm okay with that. It's the baking shapes and creating that's so darn difficult.
That's why I NEED this book!
I would love to win this book.I am a subscriber.
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