Home-made cakes thread 2

moosetastic those look fab! Don't suppose you have a pic of the tin you baked them in? I can't visualise it... sorry if it's already been posted and I missed it.

moosetastic wrote: »

they do look interesting, as someone who has never tried to make cake pops, and therefore doesn't know how complicated/easy it is, this would be a good place to start, and the outlay will only be for this kit if I found out it wasn't for me. Will definately think about buying one when I get paid x

A thank you so much!

The woopie pies look scrummy!!

here's some pics of the ruby wedding cake and matching cupcakes I made for the in-laws, hope they're not too big!!











The writing piping's a bit wobbly and I wasn't really happy with the finish of the sugar paste but it wasn't too bad!

AnnieH wrote: »

Moosetastic the whoopee pies look delicious. What flavour are they?

Lisa26 wow I love the roses. The cake s look lovely

Hi Annie, I did half vanilla (like a victoria sponge, will definately put jam in them next time to make it purely like one!) and half lemon with vanilla buttercream. Was toying with drizzling icing over the top of them but that will be for in the future I think. They went down a storm though, they didn't last an hour at work!

Lisa, your cupcakes are amazing, love the icing and the roses

susiecm3 wrote: »

Im a cake newbie, really want to make more cupcakes, it has been costing me a fortune buying cupcakes for birthdays etc as I lurve them

Can anyone recommend a good buttercream recipe? my last few have either been horrendously sweet or too soft, also how do you fill the centre of cakes?? If there are any books you could recommend that would be great

Some of the cakes on here are amazing

I use 110g butter and 400g icing sugar plus roughly 50ml milk, I beat the butter then add the icing sugar and some of the milk and mix with a fork, then use a hand blender- otherwise you will get all the icing sugar in your mixer and it will stop working, a couple of months ago (before using this method) I broke one in less than a day!!! I also use tate and lyle sugar which you can get in lidls cheap, its less gritty! I use a knife to cut out a bit of cake and put jam/ lemon curd in and then put cake back in. The hummingbird books are fab- I use quite a few of their recipes and have nothing but compliments! Hope this helps!