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| angellover |
on Tue 9 Feb 10, 1:08 PM to angellover's blog.
OMG Has anyone tried to do a collar in icing for a cake? i can bake a little but icing is not my Forte buy a long shot but i will try...
I agreed to do a cake for a wonderful Mistress and her sub, as I am their maid of honor.
Silly me, talking without thinking that they may change things. I was shown the collar and said "yea, i can do that on top of the cake" as it was so simple, until they changed their minds on the collar and it was way way different and so more complicated. Here I was after giving my word to doing the collar thinking... O fuck!!!
But I tried, tried and tried to do it in icing over several days but it kept breaking as I was linking links together. Then after talking with others it was suggested to do it in metal... easy I thought!! I only have to solder the bits together and hey presto it be done.
Off I went to shop after shop looking for a metal I could use but with no joy as I could not find tinned copper wire in any of them.
I thought emmm the wire I use to solder could be used. I rapped the wire around a wooden spoon handle and got my 110 rings all cut to size, smiling and thinking OMG this is going to look awesome. Hell, I have so many burns on the tips of my fingers as I was trying to do a one about a 1/4 of the original size. Hours and hours spent and rings just melting away, it was soft and after many many hours again. My frustration grew and I was told to leave it alone and stop doing it, but guess what? did i listen? Nope!! I am so stubborn I had to carry on trying. "Its not going to defeat me its only a bloody collar" as my frustrations and swearing started to raise.
To cut the story short, after hours of frustration and burns to not only my fingers but the unit in the kitchen I picked the lot up, fruit cake, rings, icing, cake, and gas mask the bloody lot all went... in the bin. yep it felt good as i flung it in the bin but not as great as I was at the supermarket at 08.00hrs this morning buying the Ingredients all over again. Thankfully i still had fruit left over soaking in the port and rum and it was in the oven by 10.00hrs now while looking after my nieces son the choc one in her oven and NO there will be no collar like the Mistress is giving her sub its going to be a plain simple collar and be done.
Next time anyone asks for a cake or I open my mouth and say I'll do it... if it ant simple its isn't going to be done. What silly things have you done and regretted it at a later date?
| 9 Feb 10, 1:21 PM misstressclare UK(TA), 4 yrs £ |
I listend to burnt fingers when chatting on phone Not sure to cry or laugh even heard you scream down the phone to someone who made a simple enquiary about how it was going You have worked so hard and we both love you for it, but can we have u well done not burnt at the coallring I know we are all into pain but there are limits lol xxxxx thank you for all your hard work xxxxx Edited 9 Feb 10, 1:22 PM by misstressclare | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 1:24 PM T5Tart  UK(MK), 5 yrs |
sounds like you have plenty of solder then :D
tin your own copper wire dead easy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLfXXRfRIzY&featu... excuse the american accent just tin up the wire cut to length and solder it together make sur e the tip of the iron is well tinned a common mistake or the heat does not transfer properly if u have any old wire knocking about (household electrical wire is probably best if u want it about the same thickness of the solder) just strip the plastic off and away you go "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." ~Marilyn Monroe. | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 1:30 PM angellover UK(CM), 3 yrs |
Now i can see the funny side and yes the person on the other phone as we were talking and i was still trying got a right earful... it was F... Fuc. fuc..ng collar or words to that effect. Just have to re ice them laters Clare and they will be at the collaring..... The highest fences we have to climb, are those we have built within our mind | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 1:32 PM angellover UK(CM), 3 yrs |
emmm maybe The highest fences we have to climb, are those we have built within our mind | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 1:35 PM T5Tart UK(MK), 5 yrs |
go on do eeeeet
you know you wanna
just do one or 2 rings as a trial
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." ~Marilyn Monroe. | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 2:16 PM angellover UK(CM), 3 yrs |
Yep! i do i do.... but i can't The highest fences we have to climb, are those we have built within our mind | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 3:00 PM Scribbles UK(RH), 4 yrs |
I found the weblog really sweet and moving. I love that you made so much effort for them, and I completely sympathise with the repeated attempts, the frustration, and the fact that they had to get you to promise to stop! I regret to say I can think of no obvious examples of where I've done the same. If at first I don't succeed, I .... wander off and talk to the dog about it. ETA by the way the dog suggests you could have done something else with the cake  Edited 9 Feb 10, 3:01 PM by Scribbles | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 3:14 PM angellover UK(CM), 3 yrs |
Thank you but it was others who are important to me also that told me enough is enough. emmmm maybe its a good job i don't have a dog or that to may have been binned lol. The highest fences we have to climb, are those we have built within our mind | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 6:03 PM Gregarious_old_Dom UK, 3 yrs |
I remember from years gone by a friend making a cke with a collar on it. She did a roll of grey icing, squished it abit and added a padlock and key shape. Shit discription but hope it helps. GOP Having the wisdom of youth and the energy of old age. | |||
| 9 Feb 10, 8:00 PM angellover UK(CM), 3 yrs |
I lov humour so please laugh away as i am now after the event and waiting for the cakes to be really cold so i can re ice and do the decorations. Thank you for your offer. The highest fences we have to climb, are those we have built within our mind |
gave my word to give up on it and do a simple collar. 