Cake Decorating - help please

lucym

Icing nozzles?

anna27uk

Thanks so much Sue, i really appreciate it! I'm on a Scooby Doo quest now!

suekjw

Glad wrote:

what do you mean by Tips 3 and 16 ?

I always made character cakes for mine when they were younger so hoping I can help

As Lucy says, I mean nozzles, it all seems a bit complicated to me! Thanks though, any help gratefully received!

lucym

Had a look at the Wilton site...

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/index.cfm

The 'Starter Decorating Set' seems to be the one you want - look under cake decorating shop then decorating sets.

This UK site sells the set for £6.99

http://www.sugarshack.co.uk/index.php

However you could have a look at this guide to nozzle sizes and try to find something cheaper that would do the job.

http://www.guypaul.co.uk/images/HtmlPages/page01.htm

lucym

The Wilton site has a discussion forum.

Try 'sticking' in the forum search box - one of the threads mentions the Scooby Doo tin.

£Ronnie

anna27uk wrote:

Hi
I'm new on here and just jumping right in!
I so wish i'd seen the Scooby Doo cake tin a few weeks ago because its my sons bday in a few days and he really really wants a Scooby Doo cake and i have no idea how i'm going to make one!
Does anyone know if or where i can buy one from a shop???
TIA!
Anna

Tescos sell ready made scooby doo birthday cakes in the bread/cakes section. About £8.50!!!
Not very MSE or OS I know but my daughters face was so worth it. She is scooby mad! Tastes really nice too!

leni

The "tips" are nozzles!

size 3 is a thick plain line and size 16 is a REALLY thick tube - you'll look at paying £2.40 each for them from a cake shop/online store!

Mado

I wouldn't worry TOOOO much over the size of the nozzles. As long as you use plain nozzles for plain and ribbed/star/whatever where needed.....
You can get a kit with different tips in almost any kitchen shop or supermarket.
Does the cake have to please your son or does it have to be a real masterpiece worth photographing for the book????

My kids are generally very "generous"critics of their birthday cakes. Even if they are not crabon copies from the books...

Zziggi

Tips 3 and 16 refer to the icing tips you need to use to make the design. They will be WILTON tips rather than another make. So if you got a no.3 tip of a different brand it would be different. You'll probably need to go to a specialist sugarcraft shop to get them. Also wilton do a can of stuff that you spray on the mould before using and it makes the cake tin release the cake easily. It;s about £3.50 a can but defo worth it. I use it now.

If you know what a tip 3 and a tip 16 are like (i.e. are they a small whole/large whole or star shape etc etc) then you could get an alternative.

krishna

Rather than hunt around for special cake tins with limited use (and which also leave you with a cake that is difficult to cut, and as already said difficult to get out of the tin), why not just bake a standard round or square cake. Cover with almond paste or white icing. Then search for appropriate images online (I usually find colouring sheet images the easiest to use). Print out the image twice at an appropriate size for the cake, then cut one up into pieces along the lines. This way you can use each piece with appropriate coloured icing, then assemble on the cake.

Found Scoobydoo colouring sheets here (not used them). Or use the Scooby doo craft pages on dltk-kids.com which even give you all the elements separated out ready to cut out and put together.

Here are pics of James and Percy cakes (Thomas the Tank Engine) I made for our 4yo twins using this method.