You are very hard on yourself you are an excellent teacher. I love your work. Your neat, precise n explain things so clear. I look at so many tutorials n always get the best teaching from you.
Margeeeeeee! Thank you! I do get in my head sometimes because I don't have the perfect setting or equipment (yet), but the information is good so I have to remember that! 🥰
I use to watch Global Sugar Art videos and learned a lot. But they have all the fancy expensive tools, and a kitchen set up just for videos, and a cleaning crew and camera man lol. So for a woman concerning the world from her kitchen I think Karolyns Kakes is the best lol
Karolyn!.....you are so AMAZING at what you do! That cake is super dope! A beautiful creation by a beautiful person! Thanks for the great and informative videos and for dropping all these gems 💎! Love you cake bestie! Blessings to you!
This cake is amazing. I've loved it since the first moment I saw it on yourvwebsite. Thanks so much for showing us how you did the reverse lettering & the stencil. You make everything look so easy. And I know how difficult it really Is. As I've tried your lettering techniques myself. You ARE the Michael Angelo of cakes! Thank you Karolyn.
Wow!!!! That is so cool looking. I've never seen that before. The whole cake is gorgeous in fact. So many different techniques on one cake that's why you are amazing. Thank you for sharing and keep on caking 💜
I love all your videos and I am learning so much! But my favorite videos that you do are the ones where you talk about real life cake stories and share tips on how you handle customers, pricing, etc. I would love to hear about how you manage your decorating schedule, how many orders you take per week, when do you consider yourself “booked”, how far in advance you make cakes, fondant decorations, and what day you start decorating to ensure freshness, etc…stuff like that! Thanks for all you do to help other cake decorators!
To keep paper on fondant while cutting if you add little Cristobal to corners it helps it stop moving and you don’t need to hold down so much,hope you don’t mind me saying ,love your tutorials,I’m watching from the uk x
A big thank you Karolyn for another great tutorial you are so fantastic sharing all the tips us beginner need all the help we can get so thank again from Australia 🇦🇺 with love
Such an awesome technique! ❤️❤️❤️Now that you mentioned it, I don’t think I’ve seen this done on any cakes! Also, love how you always make references to Friends 😆
@@KarolynsKakes I forgot which video it was because I’ve just been having a marathon of your tutorial videos but in one of them you said “PREPARED” like how Rachel did in the Unagi episode and I had my headphones on while watching, when it got to that part, I busted up laughing so loud 😆 Good thing no one really heard me coz I was on break at work. But then I kept laughing at myself for cracking up LOL
Hey Karolyn. This tutorial was wicked! Thankyou so much! Would you consider doing a video on how you did the stripes n the ganache on top of the bottom tier pretty plz?? Anyway, thankyou, awesome as always! You rock! xoxo
Hi Karolyn, so stunning!! Question; when you say put into the refrigerator, is it a low moisture/condensation fridge? Aren’t regular fridges not good for fondant work? Do you have a specific fridge you’re using? Thanks, Kim
I just have fridges from a scratch and dent store, nothing special. I didn't even know they had low moisture fridges! LOL There is a dial in my fridges and I keep it in the middle. I explain in this video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vBKi-O7v98w.html
I can't remember the brand of that one I used to use. It required the use of an app with it and it stopped working so I got rid of it. Here's the one I use now: amzn.to/3Lk4JdD
SORRY TO KEEP BOTHERING YOU!! but i have my first 3 tier and im literally shaking in my boots! lol I so appreciate your responses! I want to do a 5",7",9" and have been looking for those diameters in cake boards.... apparently they dont exist lol. so when you do those sizes are you just using the next size up cake boards?? do you cut them down to fit or just use ask is? Thank you so much!
You are AMAZING! Thank you so much for this thorough tutorial!! There are so many things that you do that I want to try! But I’m still trying to get smooth icing 🥴 thank you so much for access to all this. You’re my cake idol ☺️
Ok, so I also watched the stencil video as well. But question??? The gold Bow? Did you use Rice Paper? Or is that actual Ribbon? I have been watching videos on working with rice paper, and Amazon said it would arrive yesterday, but then said not til next week... My cake is due Friday afternoon. So it looks like I am going to try using Fondant to make the roses for the cake. Lol wish me luck
Hi Karolyn! Your kakes are absolutely amazing! Thanks for your videos. This question has nothing to do with the video, but what tools do you use to calculate your cake costs? Ingredient cost, cost per hr, utilities, etc?
Thank you! This is going to sound horrible, but I don't break everything down like that, it would drive me insane. I use an Excel Spreadsheet to keep track of expenses for tax purposes though!
@@KarolynsKakes you're welcome! I'm new to this and trying to find the easiest way to price my products. Thank you for sharing your videos and for answering back. 😊 I look forward to watching more of your content.
I am not sure if Karolyns Kakes knows this or not but.... You can use a portion of your utilities as a deduction for taxes. We do that at the family farm. They deduct half of the electric bill as a farm expense, because of the electric fence to keep cows in, the well runs on it and waters the cows and pecan trees. Got to find a good tax person to help you find all your deductions. Even miles driven for Deliveries and supplies. If using your personal vehicle to deliver cakes, the repairs and I believe even oil change and up keep are deductable. She has videos and print outs that you can use as a guide for pricing your cakes and explains how she charges.
@@pmc9927 I bake for fun family and friends, not a business... But I have learned a lot watching these videos. I also tried doing an online course on doing other people book keeping... I tell you what, find a good one that can help you not pick everything, you can use a bunch of stuff you probably haven't thought about yet. Even cakes you do as donations or give deduction on for charity. And Karolyns Kakes also explained in her videos on pricing, be sure to check with local bakeries and home bakers for what they would charge. You don't want to under price your cakes, but over pricing too much could cost you a sale as well. Her prices, are way to high for where I live, but I would imagine it would be much higher say in NYC or LA. I watch these videos as a relaxing Technic lol.... Watching the frosting smoothed, and the pipping, and fondant creations is relaxing to me. Lol so I go on RU-vid binge watching of cooking videos lol.
Yes you can! Crisco is thinner and greasier than the Sweetex Golden Flex high ratio shortening that I prefer. Here's a video where I compare them: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rqtPIMoyc5A.html
I get some people who ask the same questions so I'm trying to make sure I'm covering all bases! I don't mean to make you guys feel dumb! I can dial it back a bit. 💜
@@KarolynsKakes I basically use it for dummy/display cakes and decorations, but I’m gonna start using tylose with it so I can work with it better. Basically my orders are buttercream.
I believe this cake was 5" / 7" / 9" (feeds 50-60) Baked in 2" high pans. 2 layers per tier, torted into 4 thinner layers with 3 layers of filling in between. I hope that helps!
Over the years, what have you learned to do to safely have a fondant cake in fridge until delivery without it sweating ? With the change of temperatures. ?
I love Weezer, but no, it's a weightlifting group that I actually don't belong to, but the shirt was on sale and I love this style (I have it in 5 other colors LOL) so I got it 🤷♀🤣🤣
@karollyns kakes do you ever use the wafer paper included with the printer? If so will you please do a video on what you use it for? Also you are sooo Monica! Organized and anal. I mean that in the best possible way. And yes i end up with stuff all over when i decorate too. Those cleaning breaks make me feel so much better.
