Baking quick questions

hotcookie101

(will 200 celcius in a fan oven be OK do you reckon, or do I go to 220 )

jellyhead

Daft question I know, but I have a set of 5 Dr Oetker ready to roll coloured icing and I don't want to waste them by experimenting, so i thought somebody might be able to tell me

Can I get green by kneading the blue and yellow packs together? What about pink, could I mix some white icing sugar into the red mix?

mildred1978

jellyhead wrote: »

Daft question I know, but I have a set of 5 Dr Oetker ready to roll coloured icing and I don't want to waste them by experimenting, so i thought somebody might be able to tell me

Can I get green by kneading the blue and yellow packs together? What about pink, could I mix some white icing sugar into the red mix?

Yes to the green, not really to the pink (the icing sugar will alter the structure of the icing as well as the colour. You should really add white icing to it ).

lolacocacola

mildred1978 wrote: »

Yes to the green, not really to the pink (the icing sugar will alter the structure of the icing as well as the colour. You should really add white icing to it ).

/\ what the wise lady said! adding icing sugar will just make it really dry. You can get white ready-to-roll pretty cheaply if you want to lighten premade colours.

jellyhead

Thanks both of you He wants me to make him a moshi monster called fishlips out of icing for his birthday cake. I usually just put chocolate drops on them, am not very good at decoration.

I'll get some white then, as the main body of the monster is pink.

lolacocacola

If you need to add detail to the figurine, the Dr oetker tubes of writing icing aren't too expensive and are pretty good! You could also use it to write his name on the cake.

Gettingtherequickly

Hi

Made millionaire shortbread last night and could really do with coming up with a good plan on how to score the chocolate so there is very little breakage when actually cutting it.

I know it is not going to go to waste if the chocolate part is not neat, but would be good for presentation. I did stand over it with the intention of socring before it set, but life overtook and then it was too late.

Has anyone got a fool proof way of doing it?

westy22

Heat the wheel of a pizza cutter in boiling water and then shake dry and roll over the chocolate top using a little pressure.

Gettingtherequickly

Wow! As simple as that, thank

Justamum

westy22 wrote: »

Heat the wheel of a pizza cutter in boiling water and then shake dry and roll over the chocolate top using a little pressure.

I use a pizza cutter to cut through flapjacks and cakes too.