Re: Matching BC accents to royal flowers

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: Save the Crisco that you have and use it for greasing pans only.  It's just too soft and unstable anymore for icing use.  I use store brand shortening that still has the transfats, and it does just fine.  WalMart's store brand will work.  Don't know if that will help with the color problem, but it will sure help with the disintegrating problem that Crisco icing has.  Before switching to the store brand shortening, I tried adding meringue powder, flour, cornstarch, and extra powdered sugar to my buttercream icing, and none of them made the new Crisco any better.  I haven't bought Crisco in over a year, and I'm happy with what I'm using now.

: My mother decorated cakes when I was growing up and my daughter has been decorating for 4H for six years now. I serve mainly as advisor and helper although I would really like to do some decorating myself now. I have learned a great deal from you all by reading these posts and the archives, but now that the fair is approaching I have some specific questions we haven't yet answered by experimentation.
Royal and BC color so differently that last year my daughter (Alyssa) had to mix colors to get her BC garland to match the colorflow decoration on top. Our problem color was violet. We've tried a (shortening) BC recipe with meringe powder and one with milk and tested the color changes, but they still don't match the royal. She's on the verge of trying other recipes to make the cakes we eat even more tasty (and a recipe for flowers other than royal), but what seems to work well for competition is a shortening BC with royal flowers on a foam dummy. She's thinking of using garlands again and has decided that making them with royal would look best - especially since colors are not mixing in well with BC made with the new Crisco (we're trying other shortenings). You all have so much experience both with competition and with real cakes people actually want to eat - do you have any tips for us newbies? 
Lori and Alyssa 

P.S. She really loves to decorate. She's won Champion at both County and State the last two years. She's ready for more information but more than a little shy about posting.



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