Does anyone know how to make mini cakes for a birthday?

thinkpositive

Hi there -first time I've started a thread...so fingers crossed I've put it in the right place. Apologies if not and I hope all you MSE folk will keep me right.

I want to make a really special birthday cake extravaganza for my sister's 50th birthday party. I love baking and have made a lot of cakes, but this time I want to do one of those cake stands with a smallish eg 7" cake on top and then lots of mini cakes on the bottom 2 tiers. I want to make them in chocolate sponge and perhaps cover them in chocolate icing. Has anyone bought one of those Silverwood Mini Cake tins and had any success...or failures they could share with me, or has anyone tried baking sponge cakes and then cutting out small rounds once baked. I've done cupcakes on a stand before a few times and so this time wanted to make it that bit different by making those stylish looking individual cakes.

I know that if I were to go to a professional bakers and order this kind of thing it would cost me heaps. I really want to do this for her as a lovely surprise as she is a great sister.

Hope someone else has tried this before...thanks for reading. x

arlybarly

Use McDougalls supreme Self Raising flour, it's magic

loopyl_2

Medium sized baked bean cans opened with a tin opener not the pull ring (otherwise you get a lip that stops you getting the cake out) make good cake tins i've used them to make chrismas cakes before.

boo80

I made chocolate cake in a swiss roll tin, then cut out rounds using a normal cookie cutter, put 2 together using ganache (sp?) and covered them in chocolate and stacked them into 3 tiers for my brothers wedding. Yummy!!

thinkpositive

Thanks loopyl and boo80 - what great moneysaving ideas! I never thought of using old tins...though it will give the same effect as the Silverwood one and it is great to hear that you can make a chocolate cake and cut it out with a cookie cutter....I'll need to get baking and have a go at these ideas. Beans on toast for the next week!