Carnival Cruise Lines is coming to Baltimore and what better way to kick off the celebration than with a cake of the cruise ship Carnival Pride from Charm City Cakes! To Duff’s surprise, Katie asks to take the lead on this massive project. But she’s quickly overwhelmed by all the details on the Pride and falls behind schedule – can Duff and the decorators save her from going down with the ship?? And OMG! Lauren is making a cake inspired by the totally awesome 80′s. Duff, Mary Alice and the decorators get radical remembering all the tubular 80′s fashion. The beat is on as Duff and Geoff create another crazy cake… A giant marimba!
Posts Tagged ‘Fashion’
Ace of Cakes – Charm City Carnival – S07EP09 – Part 1
Friday, July 23rd, 2010Polly Pocket Pop ‘N Swap Fashion Frenzy Cake Shop
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
- Polly Pocket Pop N Swap Cake Shop Fashions
- Features cake shop fashions and accessories
- Fashion pack includes 25 piece
- Girls can test their creative side and see what fashions they can create
- Create over 400 different fashion combinations
Fashion – Chic Trendy Designer Clothes for Half the Price
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010What is it about fashion that gets us all worked up into a trendy frenzy where we just have to have the latest designs from Christian Dior or Donatella Versace? Your irresistible passion for fashion can be unhealthy for your pocket. It is not uncommon for women to downsize on a loaf to that of a crumb on the dining table so she can wear clothes tagged with expensive designer labels.
Remember that fashion designers are not paying the price on the tag like you. If you can not afford Jimmy Choo shoes, fine, go find something similar, it makes sense. For every new creation donned on a boutique mannequin, you can bet there is a replica of that exact design to be found elsewhere at half the price. It is at times like this, if you are handy with a needle and cotton then the world is your oyster. All items of clothing is tailored made this way, so what makes Versace’s thread any different to yours to be able to charge extortionate prices
Updates on what is new in the fashion world, is brought to our attention via the catwalk. modelled by off balance out of rhythm long legged striding models who parade up and down dressed in Stella McCartney and Vivienne Westwood designs for the world to see?. Famous fashion designer creations are viewed by thousands and sadly a great percentage of that number will be wearing them also. Not wanting to burst your bubble but this is a sure sign to say that what you wear is not unique or original. Why not change all that now and become the new chic you, in style, in manner and personality. Clothes will always tell a story about the person wearing them. How many people have you criticised because of their clothes. Have you ever passed a silent comment under your breath because a person’s attire looks hideous? If so, then it does not have to be pointed out that these same assumptions from other people will apply to you also.
Are you an avid follower of fashion and find it costly to keep up with the latest trends, fret not make your own. Fashion magazines have all the gossip on who is wearing what. Keep a mental snapshot in mind of your favourite designer Versace dress, shoes or jewellery, this will help motivate you into becoming your very own personal fashion designer.
What you need to make a necklace.
Tiger-tail and crimp beads
Clasp
Wire cutters
Round nose, chain nose, or crimping pliers
8 4mm beads colour of your choice
Tiger-tail is thin nylon-coated steel cable. It is strong, durable, and rigid. However it can kink, so be careful. Soft-flex can be used and is similar but much softer and less prone to kinking. Decide how much space you want between the beads, 2 inch spaces between each threaded bead is very fetching. Necklace can be long or short, personal preference prevails.
Snip a piece of tiger-tail to the length required. Slide a crimp bead and one part of the clasp onto the tiger-tail. Slide the tiger-tail back through the crimp bead, pull it tight, and then flatten the crimp bead with pliers so it stays. It can be a fiddly job but a very rewarding one. Prepare an area where you will not be disturbed and place all your bits and bobs onto a piece of card, this will help keep your lines level.
Shoes
Plain shoes are very easily decorated. A little glue a pair of tweezers and a steady hand can have you add bows, sequins, beads, pearls even fine link chains. Flowers can also be used, nuts and bolts if you like.
Charity shops are a great place to buy frocks. Check the buy and sell column in the newspaper for bargains. The plainer the dress, the easier you will find to decorate i.e. lace shoulder throw over. Neck scarf plaited around the neck, choker tight or loose. Satin sashes circling the waist or sloping on the hip even coloured rope. Frayed rope neck pieces go well with a straw hat (no noose please). Hats is the icing on the cake for setting off an outfit; they can be decorated too match your dress shoes and jewellery.
Fashion is it not all about the actual clothing item; it is how you dress it up that makes an outfit.
Fashion Designer Fondant Cake Prints
Sunday, June 27th, 2010
- Use with buttercream, fondant and chocolate!
- Wrap side of cake or cut for a unique design
- 36 strips per package
- Strips are 2-1/4-in. wide x 10-in. long
- Made in USA
Product Description
Perfect designs for those who want to be fashionable. Cute designs in pink, black and white will make quite the fashion statement for your next cake. Use Edible Image Designer Prints on cakes, cookies, cupcakes with buttercream or fondant. Wrap the side of cake or cut into pieces to create a unique design. Easy-to-use edible strips are 2-1/4-inches wide and 10-inches long. 36 strips/pkg. Each package will decorate twelve 10-inch cakes. Fits 3-inch tall cakes perfect… More >>
Fashion Designer Fondant Cake Prints
Old Fashion Recipe For Shirley’S Bavarian Beef Stew And Sour Cream Devil’S Food Cake
Saturday, June 26th, 2010Come in from the cold and warm yourself from the inside out with this delicious recipe for Shirley\’s Bavarian Beef Stew. Ginger snaps, red cabbage and caraway seed lend the Bavarian flavor to this beef stew. For dessert try this recipe for Sour Cream Devil\’s Food Cake.
SHIRLEY\’S BAVARIAN BEEF STEW
This is an old Iowa recipe.
2 lbs beef stew meat, cubed
2 medium onions, sliced
3 tbsps shortening
1 1/2 cups water
2 tsps salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1 bay leaf
1 1/2 tsps caraway seed
1/4 cup vinegar
1 medium head red cabbage, cut into wedges
1/2 cup ginger snaps
1/2 cup warm water
Heat the shortening in a pressure cooker; brown the beef and onions. Add the 1 1/2 cups water, salt, salt, pepper, bay leaf, and caraway seeds. Cover and cook at 10 pounds pressure for 15 minutes. Cool and add vinegar and place cabbage wedges on top of the meat. Cover and cook at 15 pounds pressure for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, soak the ginger snaps in the warm water. Remove the cabbage and meat to a heated platter. Add ginger snaps to the liquid and bring to a boil, stirring to make a smooth gravy.
SOUR CREAM DEVIL\’S FOOD CAKE
This recipe is from an old Church of Christ recipe book. I have no idea of the city or state. The recipe was submitted by H. Marshall.
1/2 cup cocoa powder–fill with boiling water to make 1 cup
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp lard or shortening
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 cups flour
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix cocoa and boiling water together and set aside. Mix remaining ingredients well then add to the cocoa and water. Mix well, pour into greased and floured 9×13-inch pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes or until done.
Enjoy!
How To Choose And Join The Best Fashion Design School
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Fashion design is an upcoming career which is authenticated by many universities. You get a proper degree for it. Fashion design is not an abstract thing, it needs appropriate training and necessary acquaintance with the work required from a fashion design school. A fashion design school can be understood as an institution where people become skilled at creating exclusive designs with fabrics.
Choosing the right place.
There are several factors associated in choosing your future career institute. Same holds in case of a fashion design school. In the recent times, India has seen so many fashion design schools, that you can not take each one of them on similar grounds. These vary in their reputation, fee structure, course structure etc just as you would do in case of your engineering or medicine schools. Before joining a fashion design school, one needs to take care of the following things. Firstly, think on your area of specialism in the fashion world.
To a common man, fashion might seem a piece of cake, but actually it has many branches associated to it. After deciding, look for the fashion design school offering it. Secondly, find out the facts like location, course offered, fee structure, degree level, placements and the total cost associated. There is a difference between the fee structure and the total cost required.
Fashion being a practical thing, inculcates huge cost of accessories and fabrics. Thirdly, collect all information and make a list of all the fashion design schools. Apply to them, check out id there are any scholarships or merit distinction. There can be different criteria for admission to different fashion design schools. Lastly, also try to check these institutes personally. After receiving responses to your applications, start considering the best ones.
How to get your foot into the door?
Getting into a fashion design school requires as much work as would been have been for an engineering college. To get an idea of the essential work that needs to be done in a fashion design school, you should talk to the people who are already in this industry for years. The first step towards fashion is the skill of being able to draw it on a piece of paper. Many people might wonder that art and fashion are two different things. Without the drawing, fashion is an abstract thing.
You need the aptitude to outline your ideas on a piece of paper, to communicate it to other people before developing it actually. The very basic requirement of your portfolio depends upon your designs. After that, to make samples of your complete work, you should be able to sew yourself. You will also need a basic knowledge of the use of computers for using several fashion design software’s. You might also need references of your mentors in order to find work in large fashion houses.
As we know that a fashion design school is just like a normal school, so getting good grades is also very important. And then you finally see yourself at a fashion design school, you will gain knowledge of many innovative things new marketing tools and fashion design software’s.
Should Young Adolf Hitler’s Name Be On His Cake ?
Friday, May 28th, 2010If you haven’t already heard. A couple inf NJ has a son named Adolf Hitler Campbell. They asked the local Shop Right to put his name on a birthday cake … they refused.
These people are misguided racists, once you see that all of their children are named in this racist fashion.
My question is … should a business be permitted to deny a customer this service ???
This is the child’s REAL name. I know that the real AH was a racist, but this is not him. Not to mention that he was one man … but a WHOLE NATION was responsible for what happened. I promise that he did not do it alone.
SUSPENDED ROYAL ICING: CAKE DECORATING ‘DROP LACE’ PIPING TECHNIQUES, TIPS & SUGARCRAFT IDEAS
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Cake Decorating sugarcrafting David Cakes re-introduces suspended Royal Icing ‘Drop Lace’ piping techniques, tips, step by step creative ideas. Using piping styles and techniques dating back over 300 years, Cakincrazy David Cakes pipes icing that literally is suspended and self supporting creating an awe inspiring complex ornate grand architectural feel to a wedding cake. This preview shows the progress after 2 weeks of decorating this new design. David has only used 3 piping tubes to create the design that has been applied free-hand. Full length feature coming soon !! When I started David Cakes back in 1983 our showroom was graced a it still is, with all kinds of creations. This style of cake decorating is known as ‘drop lace work’ using Royal icing. As we are getting more and more requests for Royal Icing coated and piped cakes we are re-introducing more detailed piping styles. The biggest buzz was when my Mum (who retired from David Cakes 8 years ago) popped in yesterday and came up to the workshop. She stood there and gasped when she saw this cake I am working on.. “You have just broken a dream son !” she said, ” I genuinely had a dream last night about this style of cake you used to do !” Wow I thought and smiled at her 
It’s funny but I do believe fashion and trends do return full circle. Grand ornate Royal Icing piped achitectural style cakes date back over 300 years. I found a pic on the net of a Royal Wedding Cake from 1857 ! It was a drawing as they never had …
Old Fashion Cake Recipes for Velvet Crumb Cake and Pineapple Flavored Pound Cake
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Today we have cake decorators and beautiful cakes in the bakeries, the grocery stores, discount stores, etc. But I still like to go back to the cakes of my childhood and I’m sure many of you do too. These recipes are for old fashion cakes that go back to my childhood and perhaps yours. Velvet Crumb Cake is a small square cake with a crumb topping that is perfect with coffee or tea. The Pineapple Flavored Pound Cake is perfect served with fresh fruit or berries.
VELVET CRUMB CAKE
This old recipe was found in my mother’s recipe box. It was written on a sheet of paper from an old fashion writing tablet and indicates it is from Edith. Since my mother had an Aunt named Edith, I assume this recipe was from her.
1 1/3 cups baking mix such as Bisquick
3/4 cup sugar
3 tbsps shortening
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
Mix all ingredients together and bake in a 350 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes. Makes a small cake so use an 8-inch square pan, greased and floured.
Broiled Topping for Crumb Cake:
3 tbsp softened butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp milk or cream
1/2 cup coconut
1/4 cup chopped nuts
Mix altogether and spread on warm cake. Put under broiler until brown; approximately three minutes.
PINEAPPLE FLAVORED POUND CAKE
1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
2 cups sifted plain flour
5 large or 6 small eggs
5 tbsps pineapple juice
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Cream shortening and sugar together. Add eggs to sugar mixture, one at a time. Alternately add in flour and pineapple juice. Beat at low speed of electric mixer until creamy. Bake in a greased and floured tube, Bundt, or loaf pan until done; approximately 1 hour.
This cake is great sliced and topped with fresh berries.
Enjoy!
Grandma Linda –
About the Author:
Grandma Linda loves sharing her old fashion recipes on her blog at http://grandmasvintagerecipes.blogspot.com
Old Fashion Calico Beans And Simple White Cake With Never, Never Fail Frosting
Monday, March 8th, 2010
We Americans are facing some financial difficulties and I understand many other countries are too. One of the ways we cut back is in the food budget. Suddenly we are eating more casseroles, ground beef instead of steak, etc. These Calico Beans are perfect for such times. You have ground beef, bacon, and three types of beans all in one dish. (Feel free to substitute other beans for the ones listed.) For dessert, bake this Simple White Cake and frost it with Never, Never Fail Frosting.
CALICO BEANS
1 lb lean ground beef
1/2 lb bacon
1 cup diced onion
1 can kidney beans
1 can butter beans
1 can pork and beans
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp dry mustard
1/2 cup catsup
1/4 cup molasses
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Brown beef, bacon, and onion; drain off the fat. Add the beans, brown sugar, white sugar, vinegar, mustard, catsup, molasses, salt and pepper. Place in 2 1/2-quart bean pot or baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
Serves 8 to 10.
SIMPLE WHITE CAKE
This recipe is from an old Church of Christ Cookbook dated 1976. I have no idea of the city or state.
1/2 cup Spry or Crisco
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 egg whites
1 1/4 cup cold water
3 cups cake flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream shortening, add sugar and vanilla; mix well. Add flour and baking powder alternately with water. Beat well after each addition. Add vanilla. Mix well. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes in a greased and floured 9×13-inch baking pan.
NEVER, NEVER FAIL FROSTING
This recipe, to the best of my knowledge, is from an old midwestern church.
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup light corn syrup
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
2 squares chocolate
Mix in a saucepan; stir over low heat until butter and chocolate are melted. Boil one minute until a candy thermometer reads 220 degrees. Remove from heat, add vanilla, and beat until thick.
Note: For a delicious white frosting, omit the chocolate and make exactly as above, adding 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Enjoy!
Grandma Linda
Grandma Linda is a collector of vintage recipes. She enjoys sharing these old-time recipes on her blog at http://grandmasvintagerecipes.blogspot.com
