Homemade Cakes thread

owlet

Finally worked out how to put photos on!
This is a bowl of roses I made on Sat. I'm hoping to get some local orders for Mother's Day / Easter. The photo doesn't show it very clearly though. It is five normal cupcakes and four mini ones.





I made this for DH birthday but have taken some photos for advertising! Ice Cream Sundae giant cupcake. It's my first time trying out the basket weave.

code-a-holic

basket weave looks great for a first go - I want to try it now!

esmer

Brillian Cakes Owlet. Going to do a cupcake bouquet for my mum. Making cupakes for my friends daughters birthday sleepover. The extra I think will practice making the cupcake bouquet

Basket weave is great, looks like a sunday I want to dive into

jackieb8man

Thank you to Wispywillow and Esmer for the posts. All I hve to do now is get rid of a stinking cold ready to ice 100 + cakes and run a ladies Pamper event for 4 hours on saturday

owlet

code-a-holic wrote: »

basket weave looks great for a first go - I want to try it now!

esmer wrote: »

Brillian Cakes Owlet. Going to do a cupcake bouquet for my mum. Making cupakes for my friends daughters birthday sleepover. The extra I think will practice making the cupcake bouquet

Basket weave is great, looks like a sunday I want to dive into

I saw the basket weave and rose bowl on Youtube & fell in love lol. Just had to try it. I put too much icing in the bag for the basket weave and my hands were hot so the buttercream went very very soft where the butter stated to melt. Need to put less in next time and work faster!

mandk30

owlet wrote: »

Finally worked out how to put photos on!
This is a bowl of roses I made on Sat. I'm hoping to get some local orders for Mother's Day / Easter. The photo doesn't show it very clearly though. It is five normal cupcakes and four mini ones.





I made this for DH birthday but have taken some photos for advertising! Ice Cream Sundae giant cupcake. It's my first time trying out the basket weave.

They are brilliant well done! How do the roses stand up? Did you use the Wilton 2D tip? Thanks

gsarah14

Help please! I want to decorate some cupcakes for my DD, but she doesn't like buttercream. Any ideas as to what else I could decorate them with. She's 16 so I wanted to do them 'grown up'.
Thank you!!!!

julie03

does she like royal icing or rolled icing? you can use these to cover cupcakes there are some tutoriols on www.cakejournal.com but the website is really slow sometimes

Ami82

owlet wrote: »

Finally worked out how to put photos on!
This is a bowl of roses I made on Sat. I'm hoping to get some local orders for Mother's Day / Easter. The photo doesn't show it very clearly though. It is five normal cupcakes and four mini ones.





I made this for DH birthday but have taken some photos for advertising! Ice Cream Sundae giant cupcake. It's my first time trying out the basket weave.

OMG i love the cupcake bouquet! Well done! :T Can i ask what piping tip did you use to create the effect of the roses? Also was it the florist polystryrene you use to insert the sticks? Was it tooth picks you used to hold the cupcakes? If so, how did you find it holding the cupcakes? Was it strong enough? Sorry for all the questions! I am seriously thinking of making one for myself for my birthday... is that sad? lol! DS and I share the same birthday and he is having a MrTumble party on that day so i might aswell do something for moi!

Ami82

julie03 wrote: »

does she like royal icing or rolled icing? you can use these to cover cupcakes there are some tutoriols on www.cakejournal.com but the website is really slow sometimes

Great site! I've bookmarked it!