Help I'm addicted to Plastic icing

googoodoll said:
That's close enough to walk... In fact you should run there as punishment for eating so much icing....

If it was cream cheese frosting then all is good but plastic icing? Really??
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Yep I took a tub of cream cheese and flavoured it with Turkish delight and spread it on the icing and cut slices.
 
Whenever im in the mood and there is nothing at home i make a toffee apple in 10 mins, ready to eat in 15 mins.

Sugar, pince of salt, and some golden syrup, but i also add some ginger cos i love ginger.

A 'healthy' treat ;)
 
Batista said:
Whenever im in the mood and there is nothing at home i make a toffee apple in 10 mins, ready to eat in 15 mins.

Sugar, pince of salt, and some golden syrup, but i also add some ginger cos i love ginger.

A 'healthy' treat ;)
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I didn't even have golden syrup :mad: I would have made biscuits.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
She is very good at it, looks so much better in the flesh than in the pics though.
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Yeah they always do. The camera seems to pick up every defect that you wouldn't normally see. I have some friends who do this also, so I can appreciate how tricky it is.
 
ave said:
Yeah they always do. The camera seems to pick up every defect that you wouldn't normally see. I have some friends who do this also, so I can appreciate how tricky it is.
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Yeah its tricky stuff, she has a degree in fine art which probably helps with proportions etc. Still it takes many hours to get them done.
 
Hosehead said:
/jots note down to put Rocket- Boy's wifes house + kitchen in GPS
/ Checks bus time table for east London.
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:D This one's got it bad. haha

Rocket-Boy said:
Yeah its tricky stuff, she has a degree in fine art which probably helps with proportions etc. Still it takes many hours to get them done.
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I know, and you can't charge that much. It really is a labour of love, definitely not something you can get rich on. Unless you're the cake boss.
 
ave said:
:D This one's got it bad. haha



I know, and you can't charge that much. It really is a labour of love, definitely not something you can get rich on. Unless you're the cake boss.
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True story that, you cant charge that much for a figure that takes 8 odd hours to make.
Sometimes I look at the stuff on cake boss and wonder how they could actually send that to a client!
It could be that the camera is just showing flaws though.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
True story that, you cant charge that much for a figure that takes 8 odd hours to make.
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And then they complain on top of it- Whaaaat? R800 for a two tier cake with 3 hand sculptured characters on it! Work it out lady, minus ingredients, that's like 30 bucks an hour. How much are you willing to work for?

Rocket-Boy said:
Sometimes I look at the stuff on cake boss and wonder how they could actually send that to a client!
It could be that the camera is just showing flaws though.
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I thought the same thing hey- he's great with the overall big picture and cake sculpting, but the finer details are often very rough. The figurines sometimes look like they took ten minutes to make. And people still flock to it. Perhaps he has the right idea.
 
ave said:
I thought the same thing hey- he's great with the overall big picture and cake sculpting, but the finer details are often very rough. The figurines sometimes look like they took ten minutes to make. And people still flock to it. Perhaps he has the right idea.
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Everything on a cake is supposed to be edible. CakeBoss use props like cardboard and other non consumables usually plonked on top of the cake and covered with icing . They go for truck size cakes and can't be arrsed with the intricate details. They'll cover up a pastic barbie doll in icing.

If I broke in the only thing I would steal would be buckets of plastic icing and the iceing roller.

The people flocking to the bakery are just getting run of the mill stuff any baker worth his butter can make, churned out day after day. but in the US they have schitty butter.
 
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Hosehead said:
CakeBoss use props like cardboard and other non consumables usually plonked on top of the cake and covered with icing . They go for truck size cakes and can't be arrsed with the intricate details. They'll cover up a pastic barbie doll in icing.

If I broke in the only thing I would steal would be buckets of plastic icing and the iceing roller.
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I sense an intervention may be in order
 
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