Homemade Cakes thread

AnnieH

Has anyone tried cake pops? I made some for my boy's birthday and they were a lot easier to make than they look.
Here's my effort


On https://www.bakerella.com there are loads of fab creations.

Keeping_Motivated

Wow you are so talented!

I am a complete novice and would love to learn to make a basic cup cake with the swirling buttercreM on top. Can anyone help me with a recipe and also what tool would I need to create the high whippy/swirly style buttercream?

Thanks

AnnieH

Buttercream is easy to make. You just need soft butter, and how ever much butter you use, use twice as much icing sugar, a dash of milk, and a few drops of vanilla extract (not vanilla essence - that's artificial and tasteless)

Mix together with an electric whisk, (just for ease and speed - you can mix with a wooden spoon if you like) and pipe with a star shaped spout in big circles going inwards and upwards. Top with a decoration and it looks fab.

cherrykerry

The cake pops look great. Looking at that website has given me tons of ideas now, lol

LV_Sue

Does anyone have any idea what is on the tray these cakes are standing on please? A member of another forum I'm on wants to make a similar cake for her son and we are stumped as to what type of icing (?) the cake board/tray is covered in.
http://sue-suescakes.blogspot.com/2009/09/horrid-henry-vs-ben10-birthday-cake.html
Thank you.

flea72

LV_Sue wrote: »

Does anyone have any idea what is on the tray these cakes are standing on please? A member of another forum I'm on wants to make a similar cake for her son and we are stumped as to what type of icing (?) the cake board/tray is covered in.
http://sue-suescakes.blogspot.com/2009/09/horrid-henry-vs-ben10-birthday-cake.html
Thank you.

do you mean the shiny looking stuff, amongst the icing balls?

if so, to me it looks like sugar syrup at softball or hardball stage, with maybe some ricecrispies thrown in for texture

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zippybungle

Hi,
Does anyone know of any sites where I can watch a tutorial on how to make a Tigger from Winnie the Pooh figure? (I want to make it from fondant)

Thanks,
Zippy x

LV_Sue

Thanks Flea.

I never thought of sugar syrup! I wondered whether it was watered down Royal icing, but couldn't work out how it was that colour .

shegha

LV_Sue wrote: »

Does anyone have any idea what is on the tray these cakes are standing on please? A member of another forum I'm on wants to make a similar cake for her son and we are stumped as to what type of icing (?) the cake board/tray is covered in.
http://sue-suescakes.blogspot.com/2009/09/horrid-henry-vs-ben10-birthday-cake.html
Thank you.

It could be piping gel, which you can get from most sugarcraft stores- a colourable clear gel that can be piped good for water on cakes

flea72

zippybungle wrote: »

Hi,
Does anyone know of any sites where I can watch a tutorial on how to make a Tigger from Winnie the Pooh figure? (I want to make it from fondant)

Thanks,
Zippy x

there are lots of tutorials on youtube or videojug for using fondant (sugarpaste or gumpaste - helps to search by different names) - the techniques are the same, its just the styling that would differ

i find it easiest if i have a toy to work from, as it helps with proportion

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