Homemade Cakes thread

wammy77

esmer wrote: »

I made lovely Lemon Cupcakes for my friends birthday tonight. I will post on my blog soon, and the recipe. here are some photos just now.

Made these for my friends birthday.

They're lovely!!!!!! :T

esmer wrote: »

Love the cupcakes....... you should have taken a photo of them opened. :T

Picture of the insides......

esmer wrote: »

That was my new Nozzle didnt know how it would look. Turned out not too bad

Turned out great - they look fabby

whispywillow

Hi everyone! Loving the new cake pictures!

Was wondering if anyone had any tips for me on how to make black icing!? Ive tried making it from normal buttercream, colouring it with green first, then colouring it with a little black. That didnt work too well, so i tried making it with a chocolate buttercream because i thought the brown might be a better base than the green. But the colour didnt go deep enough. Then when i put more in it effected the flavour. I'm a bit frustrated now to say the least!!

julie03

when i made black buttercream i used chocolate with black colouring and it never really went black just a really really dark brown, this is just with the colourings from tesco, i imagine you would get a better effect with the gel colourings or the powders

wammy77

whispywillow wrote: »

Hi everyone! Loving the new cake pictures!

Was wondering if anyone had any tips for me on how to make black icing!? Ive tried making it from normal buttercream, colouring it with green first, then colouring it with a little black. That didnt work too well, so i tried making it with a chocolate buttercream because i thought the brown might be a better base than the green. But the colour didnt go deep enough. Then when i put more in it effected the flavour. I'm a bit frustrated now to say the least!!

If you want a dark colour of any kind the best thing to use is colour paste, not the liquid colours you get in supermarkets etc. I had the same problem trying to get a deep red.... I bought paste and use d a tiny bit - it worked a treat!!!

You can get the paste in various cake shops and online, and the gel paste in hobbycraft etc. They aren't cheap, but they last forever so end up being really good value for money

This shop sells in store and online, I buy all my colour paste and dusts from them and find them great: http://www.squires-shop.com/ibf/index.php?p=catalog&parent=92&pg=1

HTH xxx

whispywillow

wammy77 wrote: »

If you want a dark colour of any kind the best thing to use is colour paste, not the liquid colours you get in supermarkets etc. I had the same problem trying to get a deep red.... I bought paste and use d a tiny bit - it worked a treat!!!

You can get the paste in various cake shops and online, and the gel paste in hobbycraft etc. They aren't cheap, but they last forever so end up being really good value for money

This shop sells in store and online, I buy all my colour paste and dusts from them and find them great: http://www.squires-shop.com/ibf/index.php?p=catalog&parent=92&pg=1

HTH xxx

I have been using the Wilton colour gels, the concentrated ones, i never use the liquid ones that you get in the shops cos it messes with the consistancy of my buttercream! Dont mind using the liquid one for sponges, like red velvet for instance.

As for the red, i tend to find that mine stays quite pinkish, i have the 'Christmas red' in the Wilton colour gel. Not sure whether i need to be leaving it for a bit for the colour to settle?

esmer

I have heard that you make it from chocolate butter cream, add the black gel colouring, let it settle for an hour, then add in more black. Never done it for black, just red. hth

esmer

cookiedough38 wrote: »

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookiedough38/5534547319/

theses were my very quick last minute red nose day cakes for work, I work at a playgroup

They are so cute, I hope they liked them

Evansangel

My gel has always made me buttercream very dark grey. I will one day get it black

Giggles_Fairy

Hey ladies, was wondering if you could give me some advice. I am going to make some biscuits as easter gifts instead of giving easter eggs. I tried out the cutter I bought last weekend and it works well, its in the shape of a bunny . I have 4 or 5 different sizes of the cutter.

I am making shortbread and want to put icing on top but I am unsure of what type of icing to use?

I want it to be a little bit smaller than the shortbread so you can see some of the shortbread if you get what I mean? I was thinking I could then just buy one of the black tubes of icing in the supermarket to do the eyes and whisker details. But I am open to ideas

esmer

Giggles_Fairy wrote: »

I want it to be a little bit smaller than the shortbread so you can see some of the shortbread if you get what I mean? I was thinking I could then just buy one of the black tubes of icing in the supermarket to do the eyes and whisker details. But I am open to ideas

You could use "flooding" technique. Where you use a thicker version of Royal Icing and pipe the outline, then when that has set you flood it with a runnier version.

Or you could buy fondant icing and use your cutter and stick it to the biscuits. Then pipe on the whiskers?

Here is how to do flood the cookies

http://www.cakejournal.com/archives/how-to-flood-cookies-with-royal-icing

or these

http://www.cakejournal.com/archives/how-to-make-a-bunny-cookie-lolly