Cake Divas

Hey Everybody!  Our January meeting was so much fun!  Because the project of the month was a  lengthy one, we went straight into making our gumpaste shoes.  Thank you so much to Belinda for showing us how to make these shoes!  Everybody’s shoes looked great and we had so many styles and designs.

We also decided that our February 14th project will be a carved purse cake.

Hey Everyone, here is the list of supplies for the Gumpaste Shoes that we will be making at our meeting this Saturday:

Check out the address of the location in the last post

Hey Everybody!  Here is the location for our January 10th meeting!

908 Timberview

Arlington, TX

Hello again Everybody!

Our meeting on December 13th was a ton of fun as always and we learned a ton

• We have revised the schedule for Dues, it is now only $10.00 every quarter, starting again in March.
• Our upcoming project for January will be Gumpaste Shoes.  Because this is such a time consuming project, this will be our only project for this meeting.
• We have a new location for January which will be posted on a later post.
• We discussed the Grand Prairie Reporter once again.  Belinda spoke to him and he would really like to come when we’re doing a cake.  Possibly when we’re doing the Topsy Turvy Cake.
• We taste tested all of the Fondarific Fondant and each of us took home a sample to play with and practice with on a small cake.
• Belinda did a demo on a Chocolate Christmas Ornament.  It was so pretty!
• We did not do the Royal Icing Designs because we did not have any templates and we were also running low on time.
• The last thing we did was the cookie exchange and with the exception of a few people forgetting their cookies, it went very well.  We all got a little booklet of recipes thanks to Belinda.

Hey Everybody!  We have the information for our location for this Saturday:

500 Grants Pkwy

Arlington, TX 76014

Regina said that they are doing construction on Grants from the Collins St. side so you may want to enter on the Center St. side.

We are all looking forward to the cookie exchange on Saturday!  Also, please check the previous post on what everybody is supposed to bring.

Don’t forget something to take all of your cookies home in, piping bags, tips, etc.

We had a small group for this meeting, but we covered a lot and had a ton of fun!

• Attendance was taken and dues collected
• We discussed December’s project and decided to stay with the ‘holiday’ theme – it was decided that we’d do the royal icing piped decorations which will include snowflakes and/or whatever designs anybody would like to do. Bring your patterns next month of whatever you’d like to practice on or make and go ‘design’ crazy with royal icing. As far as who will bring royal icing – we had a few volunteers…Belinda will bring Red, Shoki and Kristi will bring White and Sasha and Renee will bring Green. If there are other colors you would like to use, please feel free to bring those and share if you’d like

• We also decided we will do a cookie exchange for those who wish to participate. If you would like to participate, please email your cookie choice to Belinda by Dec 6 (so we don’t have duplicates) and she will keep the list and let you know if anyone else has already chosen that particular cookie recipe. Everybody should bring enough cookies so that everyone who participates gets to go home with a cookie of each kind. You should also email the recipe to Belinda and she has kindly volunteered to put together a recipe book which will include each and everybody’s cookie recipes (they don’t have to be original recipes, but if it isn’t, please reference where the recipe came from in your email). Also, please bring something that you can take your cookies home in.

• We discussed where to have December’s meeting. Belinda will speak with Regina regarding using the Church again. By the way, thank you so much Esther for finding a spot for our November meeting.

• We discussed speaking with our journalist friend again and Belinda also volunteered to let him know we would be back in Grand Prairie in December if he is interested in doing a story about the Cake Divas.

• One more thing on the business list….everybody, be sure to send us your lists of loanable items, i.e., pans, books, cookie cutters, etc and we’ll keep the log updated so everybody will know what’s available for loan and who has it.

• Business completed, we moved on to the Demonstration part of our meeting. Belinda demonstrated Frozen Buttercream Transfers. It is much easier than it sounds and I’m sure we can all hardly wait to try it.

• Our hands-on project was to decorate cupcakes in various Christmas themes. With Belinda’s help and the help of those who brought icing, props, etc, we decorated cupcakes to look like poinsettias, wreaths, ornaments, reindeer and Santa. We all went home with some really cute cupcakes.

• There were handouts for those who were there and we will bring additional for those who weren’t so be sure and remind Deby if you weren’t in attendance. Handouts included a copy of the agenda, instrux for all the cupcakes, and the cake cutting templates that was requested at the October meeting.

Hey Everybody!  We have a location!

The school name is:

Mary Jo Sheppard

1701 fm 1187

Mansfield, TX 76063

Take 360 south to Ragland and turn right, you will pass 287 and 157. After you pass Cardinal the school is on your left.

If taking 287 off of Hwy 20 exit 157/debbie lane.  Turn right at Debbie lane.  After you pass Cardinal St the school will be on your left.

See you there!

Hey guys!  We have changed our November “hands-on” project to holiday cupcakes.  The club will supply the icing, but here is a list of what you need to bring with you:

• 12 pre-baked cupcakes
• Tips 2, 5, 12 and a couple of 3’s
• Decorating Bags
• Couplers
• Rolling Pin and Mat
• Scissors

I have not heard of the location, but we WILL have a location by Saturday.  I will update the blog as soon as I hear about the location

Thank you to everybody for coming to our meeting on October 11th!  I think it was a great success and so much fun   Also, thank you so much to everybody who brought supplies, nametags, and Regina’s husband for taking pictures!

For the business portion of our meeting:

• We took up the dues for October and November.  Don’t forget to bring your dues for December to our meeting in November!
• Discussed more ideas for future meetings (will be listed in “Ideas” tab)
• Got new nametags-these will be collected at the end of every meeting to keep from being forgotten or lost-if we did not get to collect yours in October, please don’t forget to bring with you in November
• Since Regina will not be able to come in November, we will be meeting somewhere else-Ester Trevino to find location
• Decided to allow Bob Fitch from the Grand Prairie Reporter to sit in a meeting
• Belinda will research prices and order Fondarific Fondant-money will come from dues
• Tara is working on price lists
• Deby & Ashley will work on cake cutting templates so that we will know proper ways of cutting various cakes as well as being able to give to customers if necessary
• We need a timer to help with keeping the “business” portion of our meetings shorter so that we can have more time to do the fun stuff
• Belinda will work on putting together a contact list to be distributed at the next meeting so that personal information will not be listed on the blog

• We now have a log for our book and pan library to keep up with who has what pan or book loaned out, when it’s expected to be returned, etc.  Be sure to send Ashley (copy Deby for the log) your list of books and/or pans that you are willing to share/loan so we can add them to the blog and to the log.

For the demo/hands-on portion of our meeting we learned about rolled buttercream and how to apply to cookies (recipes for both rolled buttercream and cookies in “recipe” tab).  We also tried Fond-X, Satin Ice, Marshmallow and Wilton brand fondant.

For November’s meeting, Belinda will be demonstrating Frozen Buttercream Transfers and how to make shoes out of gumpaste.  The club can supply the gumpaste and she will put together a list of supplies for everyone to bring to the meeting on November 8th.  Also, please bring some kind of container to take home your wonderful creations

Hey Everybody!  Just a reminder that we are meeting this Saturday, October 11th at 9:30am.  We will be meeting at: