Mike's Amazing Cakes DVD

Hi Everyone,

Not sure if you are all familiar with Mike McCarey aka Mike's Amazing Cakes http://www.mikesamazingcakes.com (yes his cakes really are amazing!) well he has just put out a DVD called Cakenology - Episode1 Car Cakes where he shows you step by step how to make a 3D car cake. I received mine today and watched it this arvo, I am not sure if it is as easy as he makes it look but I am looking forward to giving it a go, I just need an excuse to make a car cake now...

Sounds good can I ask where you got it?

Jo,

She's given you the link in her post - wait for it to download and then got to DVD's & classes

Excellent .....His work is really amazing, he's one of my favourite decorators.....thanks for the link

I also got an email from them informing me of this DVD,... but they said to order from overseas.. you had to telephone. or fax... is that what you did??? Or have they organised internet purchasing???

Toni they didn't have the online ordering set-up when I ordered mine (not sure when that is going to be ready) so emailed them and asked them if I could do it via email and they said I could if I was comfortable giving my credit card details over email, then I thought oh maybe I shouldn't and tried calling a couple of times but kept getting answering machine so decided to go with the email.

Hubby & I discussed the safest way to do this and we deliberately made no mention of the word credit card in the heading or body/text of the email and I scanned my details (cc number, address details etc) and saved them as a picture (again no mention of CC in the name of the file either) which I attached. So far nobody seems to have run off with our number & spent up big but each person would need to make their own assessment of risk and decide accordingly (I am not promoting this method just saying what I did).

If you are more patient than me you might want to wait for the online ordering but I am a big fan of Mike's work and just HAD to have it and NOW, IYKWIM . By the way the shipping was $15US for "international" so I think it is same for all countries, it took a week to get here.

great postage... yes, i think he is amazing... ok.. will let you know!!! Is it a good DVD to watch.. in so far as the steps are explained well???

The DVD is goes for 2 hours and is very thorough it shows pretty much every detail, I can't think of anything he didn't show other than the baking of the cake. After talking about reference material & templates, he starts with filling the layers, shows all the carving, crumb coating, icing with buttercream, covering with fondant, all the little details and how to get it all proportionate & looking like a real mustang or whatever car. I felt that he explained things well, in simple terms.

Thanks ozcake, it sounds really good. Will have to put it on my wish list.

A very good review.. thanks!!!