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Timmay

Timmay

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HouCuseChickie said:
I need a pick me up. Going to share some more sugar and cake work...

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OK, I'll stop for now :)
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How fun!!
 
Timmay

Timmay

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Songbird76 said:
I found a couple pictures of cakes I was looking for when I was looking through my pictures for something totally unrelated. So I thought I would post them now. One was my daughter's 10th birthday cake, which she designed herself and I'm pretty sure she helped decorate it, too. The other was for my son, but I don't remember which year...he was into soccer for a long time and I had to make soccer cakes a lot.

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More cakes. Love me some cakes.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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HouCuseChickie said:
I really like all of the rose piping and tinting on this! As a frosting fan, I'd be all over the left side of the cake :D
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The tinting was a new thing for us. We learned it on Youtube! And yes, the kids are frosting fans, too. My in-laws scrape all the frosting off. They think it's too sweet. The Dutch don't do birthday cakes like we do. For the most part, when you are invited for someone's birthday, it's not like "time: 3:00pm". It's an all day thing and people pop in throughout the day and stay for an hour or so. So you may have only one person there at one time and 20 at another time of day. As people come in, they are offered coffee (or tea) and a piece of some baked good like apple pie or something. Cake is generally for a children's party and then it's more like really thin layers of sponge with whipped cream on them. Butter cream is not a "thing" here. Just like brownies and cheesecake were not a thing here when I moved over here. I had to learn how to make all my favorites from scratch because they didn't exist here. I did find a brownie once back then, but it was not good. It was dry, dense, and didn't have much chocolate flavor. In the last 5 years, brownies have become more popular, but I have yet to find one in a bakery that's as good as even the box mix ones you can make in the states. Cheesecake is slowly emerging, but it's not as popular as brownies yet. And about 5 years ago, cupcakes became all the rage and everyone was suddenly trying to make cupcakes, but again, they are not as good as what we know. They use a more dense batter, more like pound cake. Not the light, fluffy cake we have. Anyway, it's a very different thing here.

My MIL used to get very disgruntled because we actually did set a time for our parties since my friends are all foreigners and we met at school learning Dutch. We all have different traditions and none of us like the Dutch party that goes all day and you spend your day running back and forth to the kitchen to serve guests as they arrive and you don't get to actually enjoy the party. So we all just set food out on a table and people can serve themselves, and we have one moment to sing and blow out the candles, and then cut the cake. We will serve everyone their first cup of coffee, but after that, it's serve yourself, and we don't do the cake WITH the coffee. So my MIL kept grumbling that she couldn't drink her coffee because she didn't have cake. When were we cutting the cake? Can I have cake now? She really doesn't like the American traditions. They don't do the whole sing happy birthday and then blow out the candles thing, so she doesn't get that that's a huge moment for the birthday person. She thinks it's rude to not give people cake with their coffee, to make them wait for everyone to get there and blow out the candles.
 
HouCuseChickie

HouCuseChickie

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Songbird76 said:
The tinting was a new thing for us. We learned it on Youtube! And yes, the kids are frosting fans, too. My in-laws scrape all the frosting off. They think it's too sweet. The Dutch don't do birthday cakes like we do. For the most part, when you are invited for someone's birthday, it's not like "time: 3:00pm". It's an all day thing and people pop in throughout the day and stay for an hour or so. So you may have only one person there at one time and 20 at another time of day. As people come in, they are offered coffee (or tea) and a piece of some baked good like apple pie or something. Cake is generally for a children's party and then it's more like really thin layers of sponge with whipped cream on them. Butter cream is not a "thing" here. Just like brownies and cheesecake were not a thing here when I moved over here. I had to learn how to make all my favorites from scratch because they didn't exist here. I did find a brownie once back then, but it was not good. It was dry, dense, and didn't have much chocolate flavor. In the last 5 years, brownies have become more popular, but I have yet to find one in a bakery that's as good as even the box mix ones you can make in the states. Cheesecake is slowly emerging, but it's not as popular as brownies yet. And about 5 years ago, cupcakes became all the rage and everyone was suddenly trying to make cupcakes, but again, they are not as good as what we know. They use a more dense batter, more like pound cake. Not the light, fluffy cake we have. Anyway, it's a very different thing here.

My MIL used to get very disgruntled because we actually did set a time for our parties since my friends are all foreigners and we met at school learning Dutch. We all have different traditions and none of us like the Dutch party that goes all day and you spend your day running back and forth to the kitchen to serve guests as they arrive and you don't get to actually enjoy the party. So we all just set food out on a table and people can serve themselves, and we have one moment to sing and blow out the candles, and then cut the cake. We will serve everyone their first cup of coffee, but after that, it's serve yourself, and we don't do the cake WITH the coffee. So my MIL kept grumbling that she couldn't drink her coffee because she didn't have cake. When were we cutting the cake? Can I have cake now? She really doesn't like the American traditions. They don't do the whole sing happy birthday and then blow out the candles thing, so she doesn't get that that's a huge moment for the birthday person. She thinks it's rude to not give people cake with their coffee, to make them wait for everyone to get there and blow out the candles.
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I've heard many non-Americans express similar sentiments towards American cakes. I've also had several friends move to other countries and I see their Facebook posts about being unable to find something that's really common in the states. Back in December, it was a friend in London who couldn't find peppermint candy canes. Not sure I'd teach myself to make candy canes, but brownies and cheesecake for sure! I tend to work more in pound cake for mine. I remember looking for recipes overseas because they tended to be more dense and better for carving/stacking.

That would drive me nuts having people show up all day. I guess I'd find it easier if it were the cultural norms I'd had all my life. I don't understand the cake and coffee thing. Does she exclusively drink coffee with cake? I guess at this point, it just is what it is. She's set in her ways.
 
HouCuseChickie

HouCuseChickie

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Going to share a few more cakes.

Back when I was doing a lot of test cakes, I often used my good friend's May birthday as an excuse to try things. She's a big fan of purple (she was the recipient of that purple buttercream cake in a previous post) and she loves butterflies. I think this was the first cake I ever made for her. I learned A LOT from this cake.

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Said friend is also a major Betty Boop fan. I needed to test a technique with my airbrush and edible paper, so I used the airbrush and a Betty cutout to get her outline, and then hand painted the rest for the cake decoration.

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All kinds of things have inspired test cakes. Like the Olympics...

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And Valentine's Day, especially since my younger one has allergies and sometimes this was the only safe treat she'd get...

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4th of July, because you need to see if your garlic press is a good alternative for making fringe and tassels...

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Or even Christmas, because you need to try out a variety of bow concepts.

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Songbird76

Songbird76

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HouCuseChickie said:
I've heard many non-Americans express similar sentiments towards American cakes. I've also had several friends move to other countries and I see their Facebook posts about being unable to find something that's really common in the states. Back in December, it was a friend in London who couldn't find peppermint candy canes. Not sure I'd teach myself to make candy canes, but brownies and cheesecake for sure! I tend to work more in pound cake for mine. I remember looking for recipes overseas because they tended to be more dense and better for carving/stacking.

That would drive me nuts having people show up all day. I guess I'd find it easier if it were the cultural norms I'd had all my life. I don't understand the cake and coffee thing. Does she exclusively drink coffee with cake? I guess at this point, it just is what it is. She's set in her ways.
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Yeah, peppermint candycanes finally found their way here this year. When I moved here, there were no candy canes. Period. Then after a few years, I could get fruit flavored ones, but not pepermint. This year, I finally got peppermint ones at one store, but I bought a box at a different store, not realizing they were banana flavored. That was a disappointment in my hot chocolate.

The cake thing with coffee is just....standard. 10:00 in the morning is coffee break. Wherever you are....work, school, home....at 10, you go have a cup of coffee (or tea) and have a cookie with it. For special occassions like birthdays, instead of a cookie, you will be offered some sort of pastry like a slice of poundcake, or a piece of apple pie, etc. And in general, people don't start eating a meal until everyone is served, so by not serving everyone cake, she feels like she can't start drinking her coffee yet. She's waiting until everyone has cake. And it just doesn't feel "proper" to her to not be given a pastry with her coffee for a special occassion. She was also very offended for the longest time that I chose to walk to school instead of riding a bike. Dutch people ride their bikes, not walk. And she hated my Christmas sweater, because no Dutch person would be caught dead wearing such a thing and everyone would think SHE allowed me to dress that way if they saw us together. We went to the Friday market together every week, and then at 10, we'd go to a cafe and she'd get her coffee and I'd get hot chocolate. Every person that walked past, she had to make sure she told them that I'm American and that's why I was wearing the ugly Christmas sweater. She's very....worried? about what other people will think of her. She wanted to rip out our wallpaper and pick something else out because she didn't like what we chose and was worried people would think SHE had poor taste because she didn't intervene. I said absolutely not. When we lived with them, she tried to keep me from buying blue Christmas tree ornaments. I loved them, and she kept taking them out of the cart and putting them back on the shelf, saying blue wasn't in style and no one would have blue ornaments. I said I didn't care what OTHER people liked, I wanted what -I- liked. She told me they weren't going up in HER house because someone might see them and think SHE was out of style. I told her I'd buy them now and they could be for when my husband and I had our own house. She finally gave in, as long as I promised only to hang them IN our room, and nowhere near a window where someone could see them.
 

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