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hey thanks for the offer! hopefully you could help me out once this gets started! im working on getting this moving by tuesday. the molds are almost done just that theres so much work to do at the same time! ack! tile work =P well we didnt go to that kind of details but if we were indeed going to id probably just print that using the edible sheets as well =P easy way out i know haha! for delivery the whole thing will be disassembled and transported per piece =P heres a cake i finished earlier: a Vintage themed Cake my first thoughts was this frame i got for my parents for them to put their huuuge wedding pic in it. so here goes the building =P frame constructed with 3 pcs fondant. brushed with gold dust and rest luster airbrushed with shades of black then yellow then orange then misting and accenting with black to give that even more vintage or realistic look and finally a splash of gold to give it more glitter sugar beads pressed on the frame the cake baked (choclit again! with ganache and fudge center =P) the pic printed (photoshoped with lace) layed on fondant and placed on top of the cake frame assembled and done! hpoe you guys like it! very simple right? gonna do one more cake and get some rest! more battles to win tom!

cake fully decorated,the only thing missing is the ribbon at the side of the board, i ran out and have to get some in the morning, thank goodness its at 3pm =P now to sleep!!!! 3am here already and still a lot of cakes to do in the morning. cant say im complaining though =P hope you guys liked it! sorry for the delay on the pagoda but im trying toend the weekend rush, got booked til monday and its coming along, wish me luck guys!

2nd cake finally baked! woohoo! 2nd tier is a white chocolate mudcake with white chocolate ganache fill and cover (one of my favorite cakes too!) at 8in. and covered in fondant and placed on top now the fun part! add all the decors!

progress pics =P added some decorations while waiting for the other cakes to bake: ( decorations were made a day before) cool my cakes!! coooooolll!!!! =P

i just did right now...and crap. well, hopefully no one here is that "adept" in that kind of vocabulary. my names hac and back in college people call me hacfin to make fun with which later was hackleberry. thanks for pointing that out!

side fo the cake covered in fondant via rolling technique: top covered and crimpted: bottome border added and crimpted as well! seriously..im pooped btw thanks to the response i got from my other thread about crimping borders and i was able to do this by finding the right materials for it. thanks egullet!

heres the next project for tonite before i get serious with the pagoda. im trying to fill in orders as much as i could but its hard being a 1 person decorator =c 12in fudge filled chocolate cake with ganache cover ready for fondant

ive tried ginger with dark sweet chocolate, i made them with less than the usual cream to give it some more body and it was good, cept that i dont like ginger really so i just did it for the sake of trying haha =P

hi Lior, i have a normal printer that dispenses edible ink and i have some edible paper sheets. kopykake try this link for more information about it. its become really useful for me as sometimes itll take me less than an hour to come up with a theme cake for a client using photoshop and that saved my butt a lot of times too! example:

thanks lior! i just sorta wing it =P heres some of the flames! added the wheels and exhaust, also the transformers logo and now im pooped! the flames and logo were printed on edible sheets =P the discoloration is brought on by wetting the fondant to stick the paper sheets, ones it dries it looks normal =P

fast jump! but nothing that would make it hard to follow, basically just placed all the details on the truck and a few line details here and there, what i like about airbrushing is that when you make line details itll shine in white =P just flames and wheels and im done! woohoo!

ok so i made the revisions and decided to print out the flames instead. now i already made the stainless steel parts and im quite happy how they turned out. also mounted the cake on the lifter. few more to go and im done!

waitaminute, isnt optimus red??? geeeez!

waaah! painted with a booboo! yellow wasnt dry enough to paint on and it turned green hahaha! ill just cover that up with edible paper later and do another run at it! i didnt like how the flames were sooooo not in line so i just might as well print that out too =P

oops skipped a pic, i added a bit of slanting fondant on the "windshield" for a bit more contour =P

cake covered in 2 pcs fondant (front and trailer are separate pcs) added minor details like cuts and borderings: time to paint!

ok like i said im working on several cakes at the same time, so while my pagoda molds are still in the process of construction, ill upload 1 of the cakes im finishing today, its a transformer cake for a cute wild birthday boy. cake roughly about 12in long? ref pic: board cutout: cakes baked (mmmm choclit!): mockup (made a few errors cutting the cake as some were shorter and i accidentaly cut those so had to make some patch ups =P): cake fillers with white chocolate chantily with amaretto and fudge: crumb coating (well actually more of the final coat because i like to use thin buttercream in my custom cakes to minimize too much sweetness) since i dont have a walk in i cant say "in the walk in it goes" as much as i want to, ill settle with "in the fridge it goes!" for a few minutes then we lay down the fondant.

no surprises =P the name is Hackleberrys Secret Oven Cake shop with the Hackleberrys bigger and the Secret Oven as a small accent. was tough enough registering the names because everythings all taken already!

if you guys dont mind, ill upload some of the work im doing here too, i have several on going all at the same time and lets just say im going kookoo over which to do first!

it will it will! (excited) haha! if your anywhere near new manila itll be in balete drive corner 3rd street. the construction is on going so hopefully ill finish that up and open mid august =P hope to see you on december!

thanks Lior! ill be needing it!

Bought an airbrush earlier im hoping it could help me out with this project! esp in the roof and grass part. they want this to look as real as i could possibly make it. arrgghh more pressure!

hi everyone, id like to open up a work log here in egullet for a cake ive been tasked to make for a couple thats celebrating a japanese wedding. work log is for, hopefully to help others here that are looking for design ideas and execution and more importantly inputs from you guys on how to make this a reality (i need all the help i could get) =P the clients saw the chinese pagoda cake that i made and wanted something similar but in japanese pagoda style and a much much more bigger version with more intricate details. heres a couple of pics of what ill be building in the course of 2 weeks til the wedding date (aug 2). un like the chinese pagoda though (Link) which was all edible, the 6 cake layers are dummies and the bottom 2 will be edible. they dont want the pagoda to be like a triangle like in the pic (which saves me time for mold making) they want each layer except for the top to be the same sizes. dimensions would be 8in square x 6in tall for each dummy cake. WISH ME LUCK GUYS! ref pics: bottom layers will consist of the "landscape" with stairs and a japanese arc and the 1st building of the pagoda which will be a 10in square cake. ill upload the draft i made later for this. all in all im very very excited about this project. thing is though i have several custom cake orders as well so things are a bit jumbled up right now grrrrrr! not that im complaining by having work to do =P

wow thanks for the great suggestions guys! i have this week before id have to legally register this and so far im still trying to figure this out though a lot of your suggestions are really helping! thanks so much!

hey! im from manila, the shop will be in new manila near greenhills. the place is a bit of a busy street with a lot of residences around it. its basically in the heart of the city or middle of it. thanks!