12 Feb
2012

Looking Back – 2011 Cake Decorating Workshops

Thanks to everyone that participated in the workshops and those who shared their cakes. You made my year. Looking forward to seeing you in the next workshop. And don’t forget to share your cake designs. Tell a friend. Have a wonderful 2012.

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12 Dec
2011

How to Make Santa

The Making of Santa

To make this Santa click on the facebook link http://www.facebook.com/pages/Honey-Comb/188081564565730?sk=info#!/pages/Honey-Comb/188081564565730?notif_t=page_new_likes

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10 Aug
2011

‘No new posts or pictures’

‘No new posts or pictures’

There’s a saying that there’s time for everything.
You might have noticed that there were ‘No new posts or pictures’. Why?

I don’t know if it has ever happened to you. But it seems that as we go through life:
• we come to understand our strengths and weakness
• we just realize that the timing is not just right for certain things or
• we just need to pull back a bit.

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6 May
2011

Birthday Cakes with Photos

 

Emily's 1 year birthday

This is a cake to mark my niece’s 1 year birthday. She was about two months old when this picture was taken with her cousin. The little chicks (or birds) are not made from fondant. They are left-over Easter decorations which I bought from a shop.

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12 Mar
2011

Happy birthday laptop

 

 
Excited!!! Just bought a new oven. Thanks to Sal and Dyl, it’s been put to the test to produce a lovely laptop birthday cake garnish with pineapples bites. Just couldn’t resist it. You see, Sal had talked about pineapple flavour and I thought, ‘why settle for the flavour – let’s go for the real thing’.  If you want to try it – here it goes.

 One pineapple, remove the skin and cut into triangular pieces. In a pan, melt 1/2 cup sugar, add one table spoon milk, one teaspoon  butter and a drop of lemon juice. Stir till it bubbles. Drop pineapple pieces into pan, stir for 3-5 minutes. Remove pineapples and allow juice to drain. Then arrange around cake as desired. Here they are set inside buttercream.  Delicious!!!

Tips: Bake your usual rectangle shaped cake. One for the screen and two for the keyboard.  Place cakes on separate boards. Fill and coat cakes with buttercream then cover with fondant and decorate. Apple logo: I first used royal icing (colour flow), but then decided to use a thin layer of fondant. I must say it worked out well. I’ve kept the colour flow logo for another cake.

 Below: How to get the screen to stand.

 

 The picture above shows how I propped up the screen.  The same way a photo frame is made to stand.

  

 Special delivery. If you have questions, please feel free to ask. See you soon.

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5 Mar
2011

How to create bridges or ridges on cakes

How to create bridges or ridges on cakes using Royal Icing

  • Cover you cake

• Above: Using a tailor’s measuring tape or something that can easily go around your cake; get the circumference of your cake (the roundness of your cake if it’s a round cake).
 Use the measurement to cut a long strip of grease paper or brown paper (used in tracing) and some centimeters or inches in depth. Fold the paper into half, fold again (depending on the size of your cake and what you want the curve to look like) and again. Using pencil, draw a curve or line depending on your design. Cut out, open and position on cake with pins.
 Using the pin’s tip, toothpick or edible drawing ink, trace/indent marks along the curve around the cake.

 At the top of the cake, use a ruler to  indicate desired spaces between the lines. Do this around the cake. I used dotted lines in a cone shape (check picture 5). Now you can remove the paper and pins.

• Below: Use royal icing (nozzles 1.5 – 2) to pipe lines as shown on picture around the cake.


• Below:  Continue to pipe the rings 4-5 times to create a ridge.


• Below: Using nozzles 1.5 – 2.5, pipe straight lines from top to tip of ridge. Continue the process around the cake.


• Below: Finish off by tidying up the edges with your favourite design.

Join us next time to learn how to make the finishing trimmings. Rmemeber to share your designs with us.

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Testimonial

I’d like to say I would have lost this course if I didn’t take it. It’s very useful to use royal icing than before in decoration. The course was professionally conducted and the venue was nice. The trainer (she) is very excellent when she teaches us she is professional. My next course - to make flowers. I would like to be included on the E-Newsletter. - Ibtihaj

I am now able to pipe decorations. My confidence has increased a lot. I will now be able to decorate cakes and create designs. The environment was a bit too comfortable. I was scared to make a mess! The lessons were very organized and actually encouraged me to try things. I would like to be included on the E-Newsletter. -Nneoma

I know how to decorate a house-made cake. I believe that I learnt the basic know-how. I did, so I can continue building on it. The course was professionally conducted. The venue was comfortable & quiet enough to relax and concentrate. The trainer explains the course clearly and in a friendly way. She understands your level and capacity. If I can find time, don’t know how soon, I also would like to do Royal Icing course. -Pervin

I learned a lot. The evidence are on pictures. I learned various techniques and procedures and how to perfect them. The course was extremely useful, most in the baking and decoration of my baby’s 1st year birthday cake. The class was very professionally conducted and in a friendly way; the venue comfortable and conducive for learning. Will be in constant communication with the trainer. Keep up the good work. Thumbs up.

We were so surprised and pleased to see the cake that Margaret made for our wedding reception in September of 2009. It was a so beautiful that we almost didn’t want to eat it! But it also tasted great as well and everyone at the party commented on how good it was and how great it looked. - Chris and Kathryn

Finally the day had arrived, the day of the Bazaar; and finally the cake arrived. I thought it was huge, wonderful and looked very good.
What to do with it? to raffle it to guess the weight? That presented a problem: no scales, ok we will do a raflle, and we did.
Among the many visitors was a lady in a wheelchair, a happy woman who was recovering in a home from surgery across from the church. Her home was somewhere in the center of Holland. What were the odds of her winning a cake and besides what would she do with it, she wondered but she bought her ticket anyway to help support the bazaar for the less fortunate. When the time came to draw the raffle ticket, people were excited and the room became quiet, the lady in the wheelchair had by now left the church since she was tired. Great was her surprise when the cake was brought over to her! To keep it all to herself was out of the question but she got a luminous idea: she would treat all the patients and the staff in the home to cake. To her it was the end of a long tiring but wonderful day. It is wonderful to receive but it is far better to give..
- Ingrid

Each year at the Bazaar we are used to a simple round cake, it was a wonderful surprise to see your beautiful “Lady Bug” cake complete with edible feelers, delivered on the day of the Bazaar. The lucky winner happens to be a resident of a nearby home care facility and she said she would proudly share it with her fellow residents. Thank you very much for your creativity and generosity.
- Margie