Foodie road trip

17 years ago

Saturday DD, her b/f and I took a road trip to Cincinnati to purchase cake supplies for her up comming baby shower. First we went to Sugarcraft.

Sugarcraft has a store in front and a huge warehouse attached. It has most anything you would need for baking or candy making. We spent 2 hours there! They only have an online catalogue so I printed out my order ahead of time and they filled it while we browsed.

http://sugarcraft.com/

There was so much to look at I forgot to take pictures inside the store.

We decided we would have lunch at a little Caribbean themed restaurant. I had high hopes of reliving some of my childhood food memories(the owner was Puerto Rican) I ordered carne asada with red beans and rice.

The food was meh, ok but not great.

Next stop was Jungle Jim's- " a 4 acre food lovers paradise-the tri states largest and most unique grocery store"

me again doing my best Vanna White imitation

All I can say is wow! This place is huge, and has hundreds of varieties of cheeses, meats, and about anything you can think of. The prices were good too, except for the $119.99 a lb. prosciutto I sampled-yummy! Again there was so much to see and sample I forgot to take pictures, Next time I go I will bring coolers and stock up on everything that I can't find locally. Oh and I will wear jogging shoes!

Here is a trial cake using some edible images I got at Sugarcraft. I'll have to practice using the images, they are fragile and tear easily. Yes thats a bite taken out of the cake! DD being silly.

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dedtired
17 years ago
Di, this looks like a fun trip and it's nice to have alook at you and your daughter -- a couple of cuties. I never saw stores like either one of these. No wonder they call it Foodies!

I never heard of an edible image, but the cake is darling even with the missing bite.

You should post a link to this on the Conversations side so everyone can enjoy it. I think most people forget to check in here.

Pam
doucanoe
17 years ago
Looks like a fun foodie day! You look fabulous and your daughter is adorable, when is she due?

I have never heard of edible images, either, but I'd have taken a bite out of that cake, too! Looks delish and I am not even a cake lover!

Linda
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annie1992
17 years ago
Di, I'm glad you said that about the edible images, I have some I want to use for Ashley's birthday cake and I've never used it before, now I know to be careful.

I went to Jungle Jim's last year, it is amazing, isn't it? And I love the "porta potty" bathrooms, LOL.

Congratulations to your daughter!

Annie
shaun
17 years ago
Looks like you had a great day! Ummmmm now I want cake.
User
17 years ago
Hi Di!!!! Lovely to meet you even though I would have liked to mee the real thing on our road trip! Next time.

What a fun day and so special that it was a day with your DD.
brenda55
17 years ago
Congratulations Di on becoming a grandma soon. Your DD is really cute, too. Looks like a fun day. Thanks for sharing and good to see you1

Brenda
diinohio
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17 years ago
Thanks all, we had a good day. DD's due date is August 9th the shower is June 28th. And it's a boy!

About the edible images, the sales lady wasn't that helpful, but the man in line behind me was! He uses them all the time and gave me some hints. Get your icing as smooth as possible, then lightly mist the icing, fondant or whatever you're using with water, then apply the image. Obviously I didn't have my icing smooth but I did mist it, I was in a hurry to see if it was the look we were going for, so I was not overly careful and just slapped it on which resulted in air bubbles, and when I tried to fix them I tore the images. Not pretty but tasty! So if you're careful and take your time they should be fine. He also said you can do them days in advance, they dry and the images meld with the icing with no bleeding

Di
coconut_nj
17 years ago
Very cool Di. I'd love to go to Sugarcraft. The cake looks great. The edible images are very cool. They're a lot easier on a flat surface [like on tops] so you did good. If you're careful you can also mist the image back too and that helps. Have to work fast and carefully once you mist it but it might come in handy sometime.

Congratulations on the Grandbaby.. another little Leo.. yayy... lol.

You probably don't need the hint because it looks like this is what you did...but when you're trying to smooth the sides make sure to keep your spatula straight up and down and keep it still and move the cake around. This is when the turntables really come in handy. It's hard to get a super smooth surface on sides moving the spatula. HTH
canarybird01
17 years ago
Nice to see you and your daughter Di. What a nice trip out for the two of you! Your daughter's appearance reminds me a little of my elder DD (long brown hair) but she had her last baby 22 years ago (yikes has it been that long!). August 9th is a perfect day for a birthday (it's mine, so I know) since school friends will be on holiday and free to come to birthday parties, and you can have pool or beach parties with lots of outdoor summer birthday fun!

I have to admit that I don't know what edible images are, but I guess they are self explanatory. Cake looks delicious!

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diinohio
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks coconut, I can use all the help I can get! You are very kind-I used a butter knife on the cake in the picture lol as I said I was in a hurry and wanted to see if we liked the design. I also used chocolate chips around the edges just to see, I will pipe the icing on for the real cakes. I bought extra images, so I can practise a few more times. Hopefully I can get them smooth and presentable.

Hi Sharon, yes I think August 9th would be a good birthday! Mines in August too!

Di
sheshebop
17 years ago
So cool. As far as I am concerned, foodie trips are the best trips. Wonder why other people don't get it??? LOL.
trixietx
17 years ago
I would love to go to Sugarcraft and Jungle Jim's, they are both my kind of shopping, or would be if we had anything like that close!

Congratulations on the new son/grandson, I have two and they are great.

I think that is such a good picture of you and your daughter, you both look so happy, as well you should.

Thanks for sharing.
lakeguy35
17 years ago
Good to meet you Di! Thanks for sharing your day with us. I remember others talking about that Jungle Jim place before. Congrats to you and your daughter on the new baby that'll be here soon.

David

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