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How to make chocolate cigarellos in a quicker way?
I wanted to make chocolate cigarellos from scratch and looked it up but all I could find was this, which the author describes as being time consuming. Can someone suggest any other way to make them ...
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How can I attach printed rice paper decorations to cakes / cookies?
I bought some printed rice paper decorations (flat circles of rice paper printed with edible ink) for my son's birthday party. I'm not sure what the best way is to attach them to cakes / cookies and I ...
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How do I colour ready-to-roll icing
I'm making a cake for my daughter's birthday. I'm a bit rubbish with icing and decorating, so I plan to buy some ready-to-roll icing to cover the cake. The problem is that the cake is shaped liked a ...
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Why do egg dye recipes include vinegar?
I have seen recipes for easter egg dyes that call for 1/4 cup vinegar per cup of water and others that call for 2 teaspoons per cup of water. That's a pretty wide range--what practical effect does the ...
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What does meringue powder do in butter cream icing?
I've recently been taking a Wilton cake decorating class. Part of the curriculum includes making our own buttercream icing. Many of Wilton's recipes for buttercream and like icings call for the ...
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How can i decorate homemade dog biscuits? [closed]
I made a batch of dog biscuits for a Christmas gift, and I want to write the dog's name on them with colored sprinkles. The biscuits are the texture of over-baked sugar cookies. Does anyone have an ...
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Which are recipes for “rolled fondant”? [closed]
I'm looking for recipe about rolled fondant for cake decoration.
I tried to search for it thought questions inside stackexchange, but i found nothing about (i'm probably non good researcher in ...
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Storing white chocolate [duplicate]
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How long can you keep chocolate, and what is the best way to store it?
I just started using white chocolate to decorate dark chocolate covered cake balls. I used a ...
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How to prevent food colouring changing the taste of food?
I am a keen baker with a big sweet tooth. I often use coloured icing and sponge when I bake, but often the colouring I use changes the taste of the icing/sponge.
Does anyone know how to prevent the ...
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Why does my buttercream become runny overnight?
I made this very simple 'meringue' butter cream.
40 grams of egg white, mixed with 80 grams of icing sugar over an heated bowl until the nice peaks are there, like you want with meringue. Add a ...
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What is the best technique to put icing on plastic?
I'm going to attempt to do is bake a cake for my daughter's first birthday. The cake is going to be based on this recipe, but I want it to look more like this one.
Now if you look at the 2nd link, it ...
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What's the best way to stick sprinkles to cookies without icing?
I am making sugar cookies that I want to decorate with sprinkles, but I don't really want to mess about with making royal icing, which is what the recipe calls for. In the past, I've used clear corn ...
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How to create a gummy candy cake?
I want to give my gf a present for Valentine's day that consists on a board with glued gummy candy, marshmallows... all that lovely sweet stuff. When put all together it will be like a romantic ...
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What are the different effects that different washes produce in baked goods?
Just before you put something with dough in the oven, often you have to brush it with a liquid.
I've seen recipes that say with egg wash, with egg yolk, with egg white, with milk etc.
Does it make a ...
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What icing will stay stiff (even in tropical heat) after the cake has been decorated?
I live in the tropics and every icing that I've used melts on the cake if it is not refrigerated. Is there any icing at all that will stay stiff once I ice the cake with it? I would like to be able to ...
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How to get sprinkles to stick to the side of a cake?
I need to prepare a cake, but in my previous attempts, I can't seem to get the chocolate sprinkles to stick to the sides of my cake. The cake will have a layer of icing as a base for the sprinkles, ...
