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Cake Ideas – Hobby Lobby 40% off any One Item

doughertysolutions — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:56:05 +0000

Cake Ideas can require the purchase of new items occasionally. Well, you have till March 20, 2010 to use the '40% off any one item of regular price' coupon found by CLICKING HERE or on the coupon below. So go there and print off the coupon and run to your local Hobby Lobby and grab up some cake decorating item you have been wanting. Great for purchase of a Wilton product. Hurry! Only a few days to use it.

If the coupon you are viewing has expired, what was offered for the weekly coupon was nothing in relation to cake decorating (i.e. stained glass, woodworking, etc.).

When the next coupon is available that will benefit purchases towards cake decorating items, it will be posted.

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Cake Ideas – Hobby Lobby Wilton Cake Decorating Classes

doughertysolutions — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:11:00 +0000

Lots of cake ideas come from the well-know Wilton Industries. To assist cake decorators, they often offer classes to the public for people who are wanting to pursue cake decorating or maybe improve on their hobby or business. Hobby Lobby stores frequently offer classes in your area. Please CLICK HERE to check where and when classes are being held in your area.

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Cake Decorating Classes

We would like to encourage any cake decorators, whether beginners or experts looking for cake ideas, to check with their local Hobby Lobby store to get the details on their classes for decorating cakes. Of course, some people do not have access to the Hobby Lobby stores, so take a look here at what can be found online in the way of products available for learning how to make decorated cakes or for cake ideas in the way of books, DVDs and videos. And of course, if all else fails, there is always the Dummies Reference books – yes, they even have one for decorating cakes!

Cake Ideas – Coloring the Icing

doughertysolutions — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:33:30 +0000

In our earlier post of "Cake Ideas – the First Steps," we talked about the frosting. Decorator icing can be mixed up several days in advance and stored in the refrigerator. It will also keep for several weeks in the fridge, as there is nothing in it to spoil. It's best to get it out the night before using it so that it is room temperature. If you have not mixed up your colors before baking the cake, now is the time to do so in order to begin decorating cakes. We personally use the paste food colors that are put out by Wilton. They have many colors available. When we first started decorating cakes, all they had were the basic colors of blue, green, red, and yellow, with maybe a few popularly requested ones. So sometimes it was very hard to get the desired color with just trial and error. Now they carry variations of the basic colors, including: Ivory, Daffodil Yellow, Buttercup Yellow, Golden Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Copper, Creamy Peach, Rose Petal Pink, Terra Cotta, Orange, Red-Red, Christmas Red, Red (no taste), Rose, Burgundy, Pink, Violet, Delphinium Blue, Cornflower Blue, Royal Blue, Sky Blue, Teal, Kelly Green, Leaf Green, Moss Green, Juniper Green, Brown, and Black. Wow – no more trial and error on those colors! We did however, run across a chart that gave some colors and what it takes to make those. We want to share this for others who have struggled to come up with a certain color.

Aqua – 5 parts Sky Blue, 1 part Leaf Green
Avocado – use Moss Green
Chocolate Brown – add a small amount of Golden Yellow to Brown icing
Dark Brown – add Brown; with buttercream icings, you get best results when cocoa or melted chocolate pieces are used before adding Brown color.
Chartreuse – 9 parts Lemon Yellow, 1 part Leaf Green
Flesh – Add just an extermely small touch of Copper to White icing
Antique Gold – Add just an extrememly small touch of Leaf Green to Lemon Yellow icing
Warm Gold – Add just a touch of Red-Red to Lemon Yellow icing
Gray – Add just a touch of Black to White icing
Lavendar – 6 parts Pink, 1 part Violet
Navy Blue – Mix in a large amount of Royal Blue until a deep blue is achieved, then add a very small amount of Black
Peach – Mix equal parts of Lemon Yellow and Pink
Raspberry – Mix equal parts of Pink and Red-Red; use enough color to get a rather deep effect
Red – Add Pink until a hot pink color is reached; then add Christmas Red or Red-Red until desired shade is achieved
Rust – Mix enough Orange until a bright orange is obtained; add Christmas Red until color is dark; then add a very small amount of Royal Blue
Salmon – Add an extremely small touch of Orange to Pink icing
Silver – It is not advised to simulate silver color in icing; instead, add silver leaves or other silver accessories to the cake
Turquoise – 9 1/2 parts Sky Blue, 1/2 part Lemon Yellow

You will obtain the best results when coloring frosting if you use the white or original Crisco for your icing. We like the butter flavored Crisco because of the flavor, but it tints the icing a yellow shade which can in turn alter what you are trying to achieve in your color. So instead, we use a small amount of butter flavoring when we mix up the icing. This way the frosting stays white, but we get the wonderful butter flavor. Remember that color will put the finishing touch to your decorated cakes.