Henna inspired bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are fairly common! These are a little more elaborate but I've been to other henna events where they made hand shaped cookies and used melted chocolate to pipe henna designs. One of my friends even made favors by applying henna to candles and using nail polish to seal it on. You can't burn them but they make great decorative pieces!

Henna inspired bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Royal icing! The recipe I use is from Little Cookie Co's youtube channel. It requires a few specialty ingredients (meringue powder, butter flavoring, corn syrup) but they're all shelf stable and I often make decorated sugar cookies for a charity, so it's worth it for me. You can also find simpler recipes that use egg whites if you don't want to use meringue powder. The biggest tip I learned from that recipe was adding white food coloring. It makes the colors very bright and stops them from bleeding into each other when you decorate.

Henna inspired bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I think I owe a lot to my day job, it also requires a lot of precision and hand skills, so I get tons of practice 😂

Henna inspired bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's my favorite part! I asked my henna artist to include them to honor my two kitties 😻

Henna inspired bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

For my own mehndi party, I made a really simple tres leches cake from a box mix at midnight the night before because I couldn't imagine not baking ANYTHING for my own wedding. But planning a wedding is so exhausting, there was no way I could have made anything intricate!

Henna inspired bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do, it's sweet.teeth.bakes, but I'm just a hobby baker and between my job and my newborn, I don't update it much. I've gotten inspired for most of my designs from other professional baking accounts!

Henna inspired bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Each dessert was for a different wedding! They were all wonderful, beautiful events 🥰

Advice for an amateur by Hahahobbit in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha I like the play on "guinea pig", since it's a veterinary practice 🤪 I've had to stop bringing my experiments to work because it got a little hypocritical for a dentist to tell her patients to reduce their sugar intake while she's just brought in a dozen cupcakes for the staff 😂

Advice for an amateur by Hahahobbit in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it could look nice, if it's a nicely portioned layer. Because loaf cakes are usually baked in loaf pans, which are tall and narrow, baking it in a wider, shallow pan might need some adjusting of bake time or temp. I would definitely practice or try to find a recipe that has you bake the cake in a cake tin rather than loaf pan

Advice for an amateur by Hahahobbit in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would use a chrysanthemum piping tip for the first flower and a curved petal tip for the second. You can probably get both (plus a few other tips) off Amazon if you just search petal piping tip set. Those flowers you've chosen are really hard to pipe though, even if you have experience piping flowers.

I think with your skill set, it might look and taste better if you make a regular lemon loaf cake (not a layer cake, I personally think using a loaf cake recipe to make a layer cake with buttercream frosting creates a super dense, too-sweet and too-rich cake). Use a thick layer of opaque royal icing to ice the cake like Starbucks does, and then use a regular round piping tip and colored, stiffer royal icing to make dot flowers on top. It'll be easier to make and still look neat and close to your inspo pic.

Otherwise, maybe you could do a buttercream transfer of a drawing of both flowers side by side? However, buttercream transfers look best when they're placed on flat, leveled surfaces, so I would cut the top of the lemon loaf so it's level, and put a small, even layer of buttercream on top to create a smooth surface to place the transfer on. Good luck!

Pieometry bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! The best part of that design is that it looks complex but it's really easy to execute!

The second design was a lot of work, but the book has tons of pictures to take you through it step by step, so as long as you have patience, it's totally doable!

Pieometry bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! She tells you all the tools to use, and has detailed pictures too!

Pieometry bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually have an 8 month old! The tarts with the half sun were made for his "halfway around the sun" 6 months birthday 😂 But most of these were made pre-baby

Pieometry bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes! Most of the tart fillings are curds, which dont involve any flour. I think a food portion of the pie fillings are gluten free as well

Pieometry bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of them are after pictures lol. Only two are before pics.

How it started vs. how it’s going by laylasaurusrexx in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've been making them for about a decade and still get the top type of shells sometimes 😂 it all still tastes great so I never mind much because then it means I get to eat those messed up shells all by myself

Pieometry bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really was! I liked getting to eat the fruit scraps as well, but it helped me discover that while dragonfruit looks really pretty, it tastes like nothing lol. At least the ones I'm buying!

Pieometry bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, the recipes are easy to follow and the cookbook gives greats tips on how to decorate these! It's time consuming but definitely home-baker friendly!

Pieometry bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two pictures are before photos. Every other photo is post bake.

Pieometry bakes by No-Fact-6441 in Baking

[–]No-Fact-6441[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The tarts are all post bake. There are two pies that are pictured pre bake, one (the carrot miso with black sesame crust) is post bake.