The Great CS Cake Contest! Winners announced!

[JoyceJennifer]

HEY GUYS!

I went to my local grocery store today to check out the marzipan icing, but the ingredients stated the icing was 26% almonds.
Unfortunately, I cannot use the marzipan icing since I am allergic to nuts.
Does anyone know a good alternative for marzipan icing (another type of moldable icing) that does not have nuts?

Thanks

Some baking stores sell modeling chocolate. You can use that but you it's not easy to color it with food coloring (I believe it comes in diff. colors)

Thank you!

[Tess]

HEY GUYS!

I went to my local grocery store today to check out the marzipan icing, but the ingredients stated the icing was 26% almonds.
Unfortunately, I cannot use the marzipan icing since I am allergic to nuts.
Does anyone know a good alternative for marzipan icing (another type of moldable icing) that does not have nuts?

Thanks

Some baking stores sell modeling chocolate. You can use that but you it's not easy to color it with food coloring (I believe it comes in diff. colors)

Thank you!

the stuff I used wasn't real marzipan, it was called 'soft white icing' and was basically the same as marzipan but without almonds.

[neonfrozen]

Tess, my pictures wont upload on to CS, is there a glitch?

EDIT: Nevermind, they uploaded.

[Porrim Maryam]

could i use plastic figures to decorate the cake?

[Erythro]

could i use plastic figures to decorate the cake?

No, everything has to be edible.

[afragilerose]

HEY GUYS!

I went to my local grocery store today to check out the marzipan icing, but the ingredients stated the icing was 26% almonds.
Unfortunately, I cannot use the marzipan icing since I am allergic to nuts.
Does anyone know a good alternative for marzipan icing (another type of moldable icing) that does not have nuts?

Thanks

Some baking stores sell modeling chocolate. You can use that but you it's not easy to color it with food coloring (I believe it comes in diff. colors)

Thank you!

Sugar paste works! (i think it's called that... I call it roll out icing) It's super easy too color too!

[abstruse.]

I have a question. Can we use cookie cutters?

You should be making a cake, not a cookie. And any decorations you make should be made by hand (see Tess's cake on the first post.)

I know it's a cake, but I was thinking If I rolled out fondant or something and used a cookie cutter and put the shape on the cake. I dunno...
I need to find a way to take pictures if I were to enter, because my family has been camera-less for about a year now.

[hedgehog101]

It sounds super fun, but I don't think my parents will let me enter... If I can't, is there some place where we can see the pictures people have entered, just for fun?

[Coalchaser]

It sounds super fun, but I don't think my parents will let me enter... If I can't, is there some place where we can see the pictures people have entered, just for fun?

There will be a gallery of all the entries once the contest has ended.

[Tess]

It's been a busy weekend for cake bakers! 89 cakes entered so far!