June 10, 2011

Could it be content?

It just might be indeed.

I have learned the folly of committing to what I am going to do for threadcakes too soon. I have decided, given that we are moving into a new house in late July, that perhaps I ought to pick something I am not going to have to move between houses -- which means no gumpaste. With the contest over in mid-August, I did not think I'd have enough time to prep the gumpaste after the move, and I really don't want to try to move a 10" bicycle wheel made out of gumpaste across town -- that seems like a chance for disaster to me.

Instead I am going to try a new-to-me technique called frozen butter cream transfer. I've done the Wilton method of butter cream transfer where you use piping gel to delineate your picture and then pipe directly onto the piping gel on the cake. This is different -- it involves building the transfer on wax paper, freezing it, and then flipping it over onto the cake.  This does mean that this year's cake will be 2D and not 3D, but it also means I might have half a shot at placing.

In other news, I am starting to prep a series of blog posts called Cake 101, which will be part of something I'm going to call Cake Ninja University.  These posts will be the foundation for the YouTube (or possibly BlipTV - my editor and cinematographer likes their terms of service and conditions on how they will use our content better) videos I will be doing next year.  And yes, there will eventually be Cake 102, 201, etc.

This is where you, my audience, (is there anyone out there?) come in. I have some ideas for where to start -- the first few posts will be about ingredients, tools, pans, and display methods -- but I also want to know what people want to hear about. So what would you like to see in a Cake 101 post or show?