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  • TrulyMadly
    TrulyMadly Posts: 39,754 Forumite
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    Mrs_stinkface wrote: »
    Morning all.
    Hope everyone is ok.
    Blooming cats had me out of bed at 5.30 wanting out. I went back to bed but had to get up again at 7 to make my students pack lunches for the day. Cheeky beggars aren't even up yet though.

    May I bend the ear of any cake makers out there if poss??
    I'm making my little boys birthday cake this week (first time using sugar dough/regalice) do I need to buy edible glue to stick it together or will water be sufficient? (cooled down boiled water) I'm getting conflicting advice and obviously I don't wanna balls it up. (Any more than my amateur hands will be doing anyway :D)
    Any advice will be gratefully received.
    Mucho gracias :)

    Logie might be your best bet for advice. I never ice cakes apart from Christmas and that's usually a slap dash affair.

    I'm thinking boiled water too but with sugar added to make it a light syrup.

    Now there's one or two others who are expert cake decorators too but just can't think at the minute.

    Good luck:)
    To do is to be. Rousseau
    To be is to do. Sartre
    Do be do be do. Sinatra
  • TrulyMadly
    TrulyMadly Posts: 39,754 Forumite
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    streetlights wrote: »
    Good morning everybody, I hope you are well. I hope you all have a lovely Sunday and get some sunshine. I had a lovely day yesterday and did not spend a penny.

    Hopefully I will repeat this today. Although OH needs me to get him something. He has already given me the money so therefore I am not spending my own.

    I wonder will I resist the whoopsie shelf.

    Happy shopping.

    You are a whoopsie legend:T
    To do is to be. Rousseau
    To be is to do. Sartre
    Do be do be do. Sinatra
  • Mrs_stinkface
    Mrs_stinkface Posts: 3,415 Forumite
    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    Logie might be your best bet for advice. I never ice cakes apart from Christmas and that's usually a slap dash affair.

    I'm thinking boiled water too but with sugar added to make it a light syrup.

    Now there's one or two others who are expert cake decorators too but just can't think at the minute.

    Good luck:)

    Thanks TM, someone said to me about putting the sugar in the water and I had forgotten all about it. :o lol, the cake is either gonna be epic or a complete epic fail. I'm making it the day before so if it all goes horribly wrong then I've got time to leg it to Mr T's :rotfl:
    Life is not about learning to avoid the storms - it's about learning to dance in the rain.
  • madmuppet5
    madmuppet5 Posts: 5,575 Forumite
    Morning all :D
    AKA; Mad, MM, MM5, Madicles :cool: ©
    Shin: Device for finding furniture in the dark :p©
    Elite 11+ fundraising total for Make-a-Wish £682 :j:A
  • streetlights
    streetlights Posts: 3,577 Forumite
    TrulyMadly wrote: »
    You are a whoopsie legend:T

    Hi TrulyMadly, I hope you are well. I have another possible two weeks before new freezer comes and I am already fantasising about how much fun I will have filling it.
    Mortgage debt 45,000. Thank you all for your help so far in helping me save to buy the house. I could not have done this without all your help.
  • elainemn
    elainemn Posts: 3,777 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver! Debt-free and Proud!
    morning everyone. Where has the sun gone?
  • izzeyb
    izzeyb Posts: 5,265 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    elainemn wrote: »
    morning everyone. Where has the sun gone?

    In Manchester for a change :D:D

    Morning all :)
  • fairclaire
    fairclaire Posts: 22,698 Forumite
    Morning :)

    SUN SUN SUN :D :j:j

    I have an exciting day planned and all the better that it's wall to wall sun here :j

    Hope it stretches far enough to reach you all :)
  • tweets
    tweets Posts: 35,946 Forumite
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    edited 9 June 2013 at 7:32AM
    Good Morning :D

    Still sunny here arn't we doing well izzeyb :j:j
  • izzeyb
    izzeyb Posts: 5,265 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    tweets wrote: »
    Good Morning :D

    Still sunny here arn't we doing well izzeyb :j:j

    Yep tweets, no excuse now for ignoring the garden :)
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