ooooooh scawey~!!





what? none decorated as brains?
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Thanks guys. I made some with witches hats and the word BOO on them after this pic was taken. They have turned out pretty well.

I am going to make a heap of middle sized ones for the trick or treaters this year. Being Friday night I think it will be a big night.

It arrived!!! My Christmas cake arrived and it is Gorgeous. I took pictures of it with my phone and for some reason this ancient desktop Mac hasn't gotten them from The Cloud ... :mad:

I will remedy the picture dearth asap, but I have to say that I think the lace/flexi-paste decoration is beautiful. I was wondering just how you'd done it.

My family is extremely impressed and looking forward to the cake on Christmas Day ... and speaking of that, Ali, how should I store it until Dec. 25? Is it enough to wrap it in plastic and refrigerate it? Should there be a certain humidity level? With the fondant covering it, clearly I can't add spirits ... but I don't want it to dry out. Please let me know. It will be our Christmas table centerpiece. :)

Don't put it in the fridge!!! When you take it out (assuming it's already in there) make sure it is in a very dry environment. dessicated even. The fondant will go very soft and the flexi might even fall off if it gets too damp.

It would be fine just on the bench or in the pantry uncovered till Christmas day. Humidity and moisture will be your only enemy. It wont dry out. The fondant will keep all that lovely rummy moistness in. The cake itself is totally sealed, so it wont go dry now. You only need to keep 'feeding' a fruitcake if it remains uncovered for long periods of time. :)

So glad it arrived in one piece. Amazed at how quickly it got there. That was only 1 week! Last years I sent via the same method and it took over a month. You just never can tell.

Anyway, I hope it lives up to expectations. :)

EEK!! Running to the fridge right now ....

Okay, out of the fridge and onto a nice dry pantry shelf, uncovered. Whew. It was only in there for 30 min at most.

You're right, the cake arrived amazingly fast. I wasn't expecting it for another couple of weeks. A lovely surprise on coming home from work tonight!

haha...good job. I was going to sms you if you didn't respond here soon.

30 mins wont do much damage. If it were in there for hours and it had time to cool right through to the core there might have been. :) Just keep an eye on it. If it looks like it's sweating still in a couple of days time (feels damp to the touch), maybe get some silicon sachets and pop them around it. They will absorb any residual moisture pretty quickly.

So far it's not sweating, but I'll keep the silicon sachets in mind in case it gets humid here. The cake is actually nice and dry, no moisture beading anywhere. It might've been in the fridge less than 30 minutes. I'd just put it in, come to bed, had an argument with my dh, and logged on ... not more than 15 minutes, probably. ;)

well it will probably be fine then. :)

Just select the picture on your phone and email it to yourself.

Check out this cake.

That's pretty amazing.

A simpler idea...

Pretty sure I could manage those ones. haha

This cake is a traditional Mexican Calavera, referred to as a sugar skull by the rest of us. I was pretty proud of this cake. i think it's my best work so far. I loved the fact that I could just use my imagination with it and let the design free flow. I wish I had had more time to embellish it more, but i didn't, and hadn't quoted that many hours. Next time i will quote more, but do more. This cake really should be a whole day job. What you see here (aside from the baking of the cake) was about 3 hours work. I'd like to spend twice that amount of time decorating next time.

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This is another Frozen cake. Fondant Elsa Dolly Varden style. You will notice the photograph is much better. My photographer friend happened to be at my place when this cake was ready to go. Lucky me.

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