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HELP! Birthday Butteryfly Cake Disaster
Lillibet_2
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Please can anyone suggest anything?
My mum made Spud's birthday cakes for tomorrow, I asked her for plain fairy cakes so that I could stick a little happy birthday sign on each one. She gave me a box & I put them in the freezer. I have just got them out & they aren't plain fairy cakes but butterfly cakes (with the tops cut off & cut in half & stuck back on at an angle in icing to "look" like a butterfly) They look like they have been in a train crash!!! I really really can't serve these to guests. Does anyone have anything to suggest on how I can repair them?
I don't have enough icing sugar to make more icing but could manage a dusting. Anything at all, please??
My mum made Spud's birthday cakes for tomorrow, I asked her for plain fairy cakes so that I could stick a little happy birthday sign on each one. She gave me a box & I put them in the freezer. I have just got them out & they aren't plain fairy cakes but butterfly cakes (with the tops cut off & cut in half & stuck back on at an angle in icing to "look" like a butterfly) They look like they have been in a train crash!!! I really really can't serve these to guests. Does anyone have anything to suggest on how I can repair them?
I don't have enough icing sugar to make more icing but could manage a dusting. Anything at all, please??
Post Natal Depression is the worst part of giving birth:p
In England we have Mothering Sunday & Father Christmas, Mothers day & Santa Clause are American merchandising tricks:mad: Demonstrate pride in your heirtage by getting it right please people!
In England we have Mothering Sunday & Father Christmas, Mothers day & Santa Clause are American merchandising tricks:mad: Demonstrate pride in your heirtage by getting it right please people!
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Is it the cream that's collapsed? Could you put a bit of jam on top of each and re-set the 'wings', then dust with icing sugar?Official DFW Nerd No 096 - Proud to have dealt with my debt!0
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Do you have any cooking chocolate? You could set the "wings" back into the cake and cover them with a topping of melted chocolate. While it's setting again you could then put the birthday thingies into the top.Organised people are just too lazy to look for things
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could you fit the wings back onto the cakes flat as that is where they were cut out of, then dust with icing sugar0
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Its the whole of each cake which is a disaster! it looks like they've all been dropped before they were cooked then the icing & wings put on by a drunk! (Mum what were you doing????) The only thing I can think of doing is scraping the icing/wings off & covering the top with choc-chips/cherries/mixed fruit & setting with a bit of jelly to hide the cake underneath? Am seriously considering bunging them in the bin & buying a new cake!Post Natal Depression is the worst part of giving birth:p
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I think I'd be inclined to make a new batch Lilibet. Fairy cakes really don't take long to bang out.0
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make em into a trifle with jelly and a tin of fruit (maybe custard)and stick some more in the oven too.0
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i agree with thriftlady, wouldnt take long to do more with an all in one recipe0
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I can't make any more as I don't have a tin for fairy cakes. Have prised off the frozen icing & wings from one & rather than cut the whoel top off she has cut a king of cone like hole in the middle & used this to make the wings. Think if I scape the icing out & fill with wipped cream & stick a cherry on top I'll be OK. They might be a bit weird though?Post Natal Depression is the worst part of giving birth:p
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That sounds like it might work, I'd eat them anyway:D
Have you got a traybake tin ? You could make a plain sponge and cut it into squares which you could decorate with a blob of cream and a cherry.0 -
Could you pile small sweets on top? Young kids dont care as long as there's sweets or icing on their cakes!Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
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