Baking quick questions

Racheldevon

Hi, i've just made a polenta lemon and raspberry cake, and i've missed off my shopping the cream cheese filling, which is meant to be mixed with 140ml double cream and a small amount of icing and lemon. It's 100g missing from the filling, any idea on what I can substitute it for? Thanks

gibson123

What else do you have in the cupboard.

If you have butter you can make butter cream, your double cream whipped with milkshake mix (or angel delight) will make a sweet filling with similar texture.

But I would be tempted to turn it into a drizzle cake by making up a quantity of thin lemon icing and drizzling it over the cake and then whipping up the double cream with a little icing sugar and serving it on the side with the cut cake.

scaredy_cat

not sure you could substitute anything for the cream cheese. you could whip the cream up and either swirl some lemon curd in it or spread some lemon curd on the cake, then the whipped cream.

Racheldevon

Thank you - I've just used the butter up on the 3 different things i've made tonight, but I have some lemon curd in so will combine that, and use it to sandwich the two layers & hope for the best!!

cutestkids

If you have cottage cheese you can press it through a sieve to make it smooth and use in place of the cream cheese, you may need to add slightly more icing sugar as it tends to be more salty than cream cheese.

DundeeDoll

Your title reminded me of a friend who bought an iced cake at a church coffee morning. When he cut it he found a sunken cake that had been levelled off with kitchen paper!!!

Racheldevon

All good suggestions thank you - in the end I whisked a bit of icing sugar into the cream, with some lemon curd and folded in some raspberrys, it had good feedback so all was ok!!

Sallygirl

Many years ago I pulled a chart out of a copy of Family Circle. On one side it had a chart for the different quantities of ingredients needed for sponge/madeira cakes from 6" to 12" tins. Most importantly, it had the cooking times too. On the back of the page it had something similar for fruit cakes.

I lent it to someone and now it is lost - and I need it. I have spent a lot of time trawling the internet but have not come up with such a good chart. Please can anyone point me in the direction of a chart like this? I can work out the quantities but not so good on the baking times/temperatures. Maybe somebody has kept a copy of the Family Circle chart?

I'd be really grateful for your help :T

thrifty-gal26

Is this what you need?

http://www.kitchenscookshop.co.uk/shop/items/baking-guide/

Owain_Moneysaver

This might help as regards tin sizes.



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