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« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2008, 02:19:47 PM » |
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The cakes are beyond beautiful  AND I am 500 pounds heavier just from looking at them  Gee, there's drool all over my monitor.............  |
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Tortie cats are like Almond Joys........Very sweet and a little nuts
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« Reply #17 on: September 25, 2008, 08:43:25 PM » |
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Thank you! I really love baking and decorating, it is very good for the nerves.
August, I got some nice recipes with marzipan, interested?
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« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2008, 10:42:45 PM » |
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I'm drooling right along with you Peg! My gosh Aleko you are very talented. I have a set of carving tools and can do a few different things with a watermelon that come out quite fancy too. Wish I could do as you with the cakes though. Can bake excellent (as baking to me is a talent) whereas I feel most can learn to cook, lol. You should go into business or a side decorating cakes- you are really good.
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'Life isn't about how to survive the storm,
But how to dance in the rain.'
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« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2008, 10:57:13 PM » |
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August, I got some nice recipes with marzipan, interested?
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« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2008, 01:06:15 AM » |
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Your cakes are fantastic, Alek0! I'd be chasing away anyone that tried to come near one with a fork. They'd never get one bite! I could never pick a favorite out of that group since I like all the different styles, but the cake based on the Jim Warren painting did catch my eye. (So did he when I looked at his web site.) Did you see this page with music by Oksana Kolesnikova inspired by his art? http://www.jimwarren.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=69 The figure arising from the cake made me think of Salvadore Dali, too. It would be great to base a cake on one of his paintings. I found a photo of one cake with the melting watch, but it was pretty one-dimensional. You could really bring that to life! I found this article about a professional Texas wedding cake. It's pretty funny and very strange. I shudder to think of the jokes the wedding guests may have made about eating that cake.  http://www.nbc5i.com/news/15025389/detail.html |
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« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2008, 01:21:05 AM » |
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Please be very careful over there guys. It's spread to Japanese cookies and Taiwan Pizza Hut. (Pizza and chocolate, 2 of my main food groups  ) http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008197980_apaschinataintedmilk.html... Meanwhile, Koala's March cookies made by Lotte China Foods Co., a Tokyo conglomerate, were found to be contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine. The Japanese confectioner exports cookies to the Chinese territory of Macau Macau's government said late Thursday that they had found levels of melamine 24 times the safety limit in the cookies. ... Hong Kong supermarkets also removed the popular Japanese brand of chocolate-filled cookies from shelves Friday. ... In Taiwan, where there have been huge concerns about the safety of milk and related products imported from China, Pizza Hut said Friday it had suspended supplying cheese powder found to be contaminated by melamine. Wu Yu-ping, an official of Pizza Hut's Taiwan branch, said the tainted cheese was supplied by Taiwan's Kaiyuan Company, but its source is not known. |
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« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2008, 01:33:07 AM » |
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Macau's government said late Thursday that they had found levels of melamine 24 times the safety limit in the cookies. There should NEVER be safety levels for melamine. It should not be in food. Period. End. Of. Story. WTF are our governments thinking?! I think we should pass a law that our elected officials are banned from eating organic. In fact, I think I'll be making that suggestion . . . |
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« Reply #24 on: September 26, 2008, 04:09:03 AM » |
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Thank you for the info and comments about cakes  I think Meiji chocolates will sit in the fridge for a bit more until this widening of affected products stops and we are sure they are safe, and I'll decorate all with gumpaste. Which will be tricky in this weather for two cakes, takes time to make and I thought I finished decorations for one, but my hibiscus flower has turned soft from humidity. Argh! I'll have to do it all over again JJ, I love carving of watermelons, I've seen some amazing designs, but I think that is something I'll never learn. I wish I could Poco, thanks for the link~ I love Jim Warren's art. For Salvador Dali, I like some of his paintings, but not nearly as many as in the case of Jim Warren. I also made a marzipan-gumpaste topper, I wanted to combine mysteries of life with an adult girl, the size of the hill is a bit off but otherwise it would have been too heavy as a cake topper.  Another one which is a bit surrealism style, gumpaste dry flowers on a gumpaste swan:  August, just for you, pina colada cake with marzipan mallard duck covered with fondant:  |
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« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2008, 08:05:22 AM » |
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I am so chomping down on that duck.  Wow, I have not heard anything about those chocolate problems here. I'll have to look next time to see if the Koala No March is still on the shelves. How awful. |
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« Reply #26 on: September 26, 2008, 12:02:18 PM » |
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Those are really beautiful!
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« Reply #27 on: September 26, 2008, 05:21:14 PM » |
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Okay we have Kaffe Kooks and now Alec Bakes These are the 2 books on my must have list  |
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Tortie cats are like Almond Joys........Very sweet and a little nuts
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« Reply #28 on: September 27, 2008, 12:06:13 PM » |
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Those aren't just cakes, they're works of art. Cross-posting: (From itchmo forum thread recall-nonpet-food/melamine-suspected-chinese-officials-say-baby-formula-tied-to-kidney-stones) Very early in this thread, a poster (purringfur, Reply 317, page 22) suggested that we start trying to list "silent recalls" by US manufacturers. I may have found two. So I'm starting a separate thread to list only milk product foods or foods that contain dry milk powders that you've noticed sudden shortages of. Will be back in a minute to cross-post link ... Neither the FDA or US multinational manufacturers are being very forthcoming here. Instead of waiting for delayed announcements and all the evidence to be consumed, as most of us did in the 2007 pet food recalls, let's all list sudden shortages of suspicious products and attempt to save samples and evidence of purchase NOW. Cross-posting Canadian and US product shortage thread: http://itchmoforums.com/off-topic-no-politics/chinese-baby-formula-milk-possible-us-products-being-silently-recalled-t6393.0.html;new |
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« Reply #29 on: September 27, 2008, 07:57:25 PM » |
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Thanks for the comments and all the great info. In the end I made the leaves and the stem of pumpkin out of gumpaste, and all the ingredients used for the cake were products of EU, not entirely happy with the results since last minute change in the ingredients does affect the looks (though it was still yummy)  This one was for the guests, I had another one for us, but decorated differently, with gumpaste hibiskus, also covered with white chocolate with added orange natural flavor and orange colour:  The chocolate is not smooth as it should be since normally I would use Japanese varieties with added flavor and colour, though my home made mix actually tasted better since orange flavor was simply orange oils in sunflower oil, all natural. I guess you can't have both the looks and the taste |
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