Cricut Cake Test

I jumped on the bandwagon when I saw I could get a Cricut Cake for 49.00... Even better I got the holiday bundle which came with an extra Holiday Cakes cartridge and and APRON.  I ordered from Creative Express and got it in just a few days.  I think the price has gone up, but if you keep an eye on it, it will probably go down again.

So, because I only use my Cricut with Sure Cuts A Lot, and couldn't remember how to use the cartridge, I decided to do some test cuts with my regular cricut mat and card stock. To my surprise, it cut perfectly, with the blade set on Max.

To test the cake, I bought Wilton Sugar Sheets. They are in the Wilton section at Michaels, you can use the fifty percent off coupon this week, and get them for 2.00.  I read online that you could put Crisco on the back of the plastic sheet or use attach the plastic on the back of the icing to a regular cricut mat. Not wanting to do more than test, and having no cake to put my cut outs on, I decided to go with the regular cricut mat. I set the blade to one less that max. This way it did a kiss cut(didn't cut through the plastic backing). It worked great. After I cut, I removed a square section around my design(to avoid messing up the unused sugar sheet). Then I weeded it like vinyl.  It looks tlike it will be no problem to put on my cake. It isn't brittle. I put it back inside the pouch to keep it from drying out.  I did make a layered design, and removed the first layer from the plastic backing and put it on top of the other shadow layer successfuly.

I've done cake decorating before, but ouly the kind where you use tips to make borders and flowers I've never worked with fondant. I'm not sure I will, since these sheets were so easy, so inexpensive and come in such great colors. Check it out!