General Chat

Kitty you need to let the marzipan dry before you attempt the cement oops sorry icing

How long does it take to dry.................*peeps in to see how the crazy paving is going*

Not looking too bad:))

A week if you've made the marzipan yourself. I take it your's is from a packet so just a day or so


http://www.imaginativeicing.demon.co.uk/howtomarzipan.htm

Kitty, if your oh is any good at plastering let him ice the cake....same thing just smaller trowel ;-)))

Mary

sorry Kitty....can't help you with your dilema

George Cloony.....Sigh.....he's calling to me.....must go watch

one tip before I go though.....don't use nails...use screws, you may want to re-ajust the position of the icing

Of course it was a packet Claire!! You know me so well:)))

Mmmmmm..................I might making the icing, *asks OH*

I will be using ready made by the sound of it!! lol

Susan..........thanks......I think!?!?!?

xx

*wonders if white tac would be better* LOL

LOL..................now that IS a good plan:)))))

I know a plasterer who really is great at icing cakes.Friend of mine's daughter had her 3 tiered wedding cake iced by him..............hands Kitty a trowel.......steady hand now ;O)

LOL

The easiest way is to buy a packet of ready to mix Royal Icing sugar.

This saves mixing your own and is so easy. You just have to add water as directed on the packet to make Royal Icing. Otherwise you have to use ordinary icing sugar and faff about with eggs and glycerine and such like. I stopped making my own when my husband was very ill with blood cancer and I worried about raw eggs.

The roll out icing is not a particularly pleasant flavour in my opinion but it works nicely for making little decorations or plaques.

Good luck
Sue

LOL...........I will do my best, it might not be brilliant, but it will be unique:))

Think I will do the same Sue............me and more than 2 ingredients at a time doesn't bear thinking about:( lol

ohhh kitty kitty kitty

just pop to m&s they do some lovely ready made ready marzipaned ready iced christmas cakes hahaha

and they dotn come with a health warnign "sniggers


xxx

Thanks stray....................*rools eyes*

Oooooh play dough, I love play dough:)))

I know that isn't edible though...........one of ours threw up a lump of it at the dinner table once.....Yuk!!!!!!


Edit......................she was playing with it earlier that day, I didn't make her eat it, honest:))

playdough is foul
ho did she manage to eat it its so salty?
well the playdough i make is lol

She was the type of child that ate everything Stray................paper, glue, paint and anything else she could sneak.

I blame the parents!! :)))))))))))))))))

*glares at Amanda*

Actually they all learned to cook when they were quite young! *wonders why* LOL

lol amanda "whispers i think your right hun

I would, but the 3 who are brilliant are all grown up and married................our youngest is even worse than me:((

Flippin' eck Kitty just open a bottle of wine and to hell with the Christmas cake !!!! Wish I was a fly on the wall in your kitchen lol
Love Mary in Spain xx
ps so glad to see you back

Good grief Kitty, have you not heard of No More Nails ? *tuts loudly*