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The photo competition 5. Puzzled

#1 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Aug 07, 2011 4:03 pm

Although I think most people looked like this for most of the day... :lol:
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Re: The photo competition 5. Puzzled

#2 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Aug 07, 2011 5:16 pm

I am SERIOUSLY puzzled as to why my cake, which looked like this on Friday evening....
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....ended up with every colour running into itself, then me having to scrape all the icing off, try to replace it with different topping (which, by this time had gone all lumpy and disgusting). :roll: I refused to let anyone look at it, and hid it under a piece of foil while I cut it up.
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#3 Post by LAT » Sun Aug 07, 2011 5:34 pm

But it tasted wonderful anyway!
It's such a shame the colours ran as the cake looked absolutely amazing in the photo. So glad you took a pic so that we could admire your handiwork. :D
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Re: The photo competition 5. Puzzled

#4 Post by Looby » Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:01 pm

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Re: The photo competition 5. Puzzled

#5 Post by Cenwulf » Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:14 pm

Regarding the cake, the only thing I can think of is that you didn't let the white icing dry properly first before you put the other colours on top of it.
If it was still slightly soft, the other colours would dissolve into it and the neat design would become a blurry mess.
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Re: The photo competition 5. Puzzled

#6 Post by Wulfruna » Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:55 pm

Cenwulf wrote: didn't let the white icing dry properly first
Yes, that happened to one of mine once - using some really bright red icing onto white icing that was not quite totally dry (well it seemed ok when I touched it...) - blurry colour spread all around - and there's nothing I could do to salvage the mess by then. Grrrrr.
However, I'm so glad you took the photo of it first, Bunny, so that we could appreciate your brilliant efforts. And we wouldn't have spent very long admiring it on Saturday - it was far too yummy not to demolish it straight away :lol: :lol:
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