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Offline franksolich

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primitive seeks cake decorating help
« on: April 28, 2013, 01:57:45 PM »
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Granny M (356 posts)    Sun Apr 28, 2013, 01:57 PM

Cake decorating help

Hi, everyone.

My grandson's 3rd birthday is coming up, and, since he is a little tractor freak, I volunteered to bake a tractor cake. Got a Nordic Ware tractor pan. I have some lovely cake recipes, which should work fine. It's the decorating part that has me waking up at night.

Can anyone in this group give me some hints about decorating a specialty cake? We're going with the John Deere colours - green with yellow rims and black tires. I'm not the best with piping bags and tips, but I can't see another way to do it.

Why not just go to the bakery and tell them what sort of custom-made cake one wants?

First up, somebody who's not obeying her guardians, who want addled Grandma Judy to stay off the internet because she says silly things, making herself look bad, and nobody likes Grandma looking bad:

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grasswire (36,599 posts)    Sun Apr 28, 2013, 02:06 PM

1. could you do it with candies?

There are so many little colored candies that can be used to define the features of an object. Lay down your colored frosting, and then the candies. And if you go to a Michael's store into the cake decorating department, you will find all kinds of colored sugars and stuff like that.

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supernova (39,127 posts)   Sun Apr 28, 2013, 02:10 PM

2. You might consider getting fondant

a flexible sugar "dough", if you aren't so steady with a piping bag. With a knife and scissors you can cut any shape you like. Or some combo of piping and fondant shaping. Whatever you feel most comfortable with.
 
Fondant is available in the cake section at places like A C Moore and Michaels. You can dye it or paint it or just get the colors that you need if they have them in stock.

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Phentex (7,802 posts)   Sun Apr 28, 2013, 02:36 PM

3. I googled your pan and John Deere cakes...

I like the combination of frosting and fondant. I'd use black licorice pieces on the tires to look like treads. Like you said, I'd do the whole thing in green with yellow rims and black tires. Then pipe outlines of the more detailed parts.
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Re: primitive seeks cake decorating help
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2013, 02:00:15 PM »
Explain to him that a John Deere cake is sexist, and get him one with ballerinas on it instead. 
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Re: primitive seeks cake decorating help
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2013, 02:19:02 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on April 28, 2013, 02:00:15 PM
Explain to him that a John Deere cake is sexist, and get him one with ballerinas on it instead. 

Yeah, tractors are too manly for the modern queer metrosexual male.
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Re: primitive seeks cake decorating help
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2013, 10:37:22 AM »
Doesn't that sound like it would look revolting?  The John Deere green is pretty vivid.  And if she's not particularly talented in this area, the finished product has got to look hilarious. 

Frank's right; go to a specialty shop and leave it to the professionals.  It's what they're there for.  Why lose sleep?

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Re: primitive seeks cake decorating help
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2013, 11:07:17 AM »
Quote from: Karin on April 29, 2013, 10:37:22 AM
Doesn't that sound like it would look revolting?  The John Deere green is pretty vivid.  And if she's not particularly talented in this area, the finished product has got to look hilarious. 

Frank's right; go to a specialty shop and leave it to the professionals.  It's what they're there for.  Why lose sleep?

I agree.  This sounds like a disaster in the making.  I suppose a three year old isn't going to be too picky though.

A lot of bakeries do a type of air brushing.  She could have a simple picture of a tractor painted on a flat cake and embellished with other farm things. 

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Re: primitive seeks cake decorating help
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2013, 12:15:32 PM »
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Sun Apr 28, 2013, 04:34 PM
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4. Thank for the great ideas.

I think I'll get some fondant and candies, sugar, etc. I'll use the pan as the form and practice on it. I'll post pictures of the finished product on May 18th.

 :yahoo:  I can't wait!!
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Re: primitive seeks cake decorating help
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2013, 12:16:50 PM »
I'm horrible at cake decorating. I would just order it from the bakery.
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Re: primitive seeks cake decorating help
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2013, 01:18:57 PM »
You can buy cake spray paint - I just bought some green for an Easter cake. It's the right shade of green and way beyond easy to use on top of white frosting. She could even used the canned stuff.

It is so easy to find a tractor cake on the internet... all she needs to do is find one and decorate it the same.
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Re: primitive seeks cake decorating help
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2013, 02:21:11 PM »
Going to DU for cake decorating help??????????? There are many websites that can help you. They are really small minded.
« Last Edit: April 29, 2013, 02:29:07 PM by Ptarmigan »
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Re: primitive seeks cake decorating help
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2013, 02:26:59 PM »
Bet she gives up and bakes cupcakes instead.  :lmao:
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