How to make Birthday (and other celebration) Cakes!

k4s_2

im not allowed to post a link for you as im a new user but dailymail.co.uk basic vanilla spong recipe gives for this size and is yummy! i used it for my dd's 6th birthday in february and we covered it in pink buttercream frosting....there were no complaints!

lisa26_2

lucasmum wrote: »

I don't know why a victoria sponge wouldn't work. My most used tin in the kitchen is my 9 in sq tin. I usually use a 3 or 4 egg mix for each half of the cake(weigh the eggs and the same quantity of everything else) if i was doing a sandwich and icing it to allow for trimming to make everything flat, or a 5 egg mix if I was doing a traybake type of a cake.
HTH

This is probably a very silly question but do you weigh the egss in their shells or out?

Thanks!

sparkleworld

I weigh them in their shells after watching the hairy bikers do it that way on their Mums Know Best programme- otherwise I too would have wondered the same thing;)

Regards
*Sparkle*

plglaserna04

Try "googling" a recipe, you'll have a lot of choices! For cake toppings, this site has amazing suggestions: http://www.one-stop-birthday-ideas.com/

zippychick

here's a thread on weighing eggs for cakes. I did it back before it was cool

I can't see why it wouldn't work if you adjust the cooking time if needs be?

might our birthday/celebration cakes thread help?

we will merge this later

Zip:)

TrulyMadly

It will be my daughter's 18th birthday in a couple of weeks and I am looking to buy/make her a cake. As we have a lerge number of people coming I was thinking of buying a large traybake of some kind and decorating it myself. I'm a confident cake maker but really don't want to start buying a large tin/tins just as a one off.

I'm thinking sponge decorated with chocolate. Has anyone any ideas where I can buy a large sponge traybake rom.

Many thanks

happy35

costco sell large decorated chocolate caked for about £12, they are oblong and about 18" by 12", you could buy one with just the icing on and piping around the edges and decorate the middle yourself

CH27

Costco cakes are gorgeous & really reasonable.

lizzyb1812

Have you got square/oblong cake tins? If so you could cook 2 or more and join them up side by side to create a sheet cake, or cook a cake in a deep baking tray,grill pan/roaster etc.

If you decide to do a joined on your icing pattern or frosting could easily disguise any joins

Lizzy

Owain_Moneysaver

You could buy/make several smaller cakes, cut the edges square and put them together on a cakeboard and decorate over them all.

Two round cakes and two rectangular cakes will give you a 1 and an 8 ... if you want bigger than that, but something that's easy to slice, then use swiss-rolls and join them end to end. Cut out angled segments to go round curves.