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.
2011
How to Make 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
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.
2011
Birthday Cakes with Photos
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.
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.












