Homemade Cakes thread

awesome2_2

Hi Bindiboo

Your roses have come along nicely wich way do you point you nozzle? Do you have the wider end on the outside ans do you raise and lower it slighly when icing? Have done some with a different type of nozzle which were ok but want to have a try with a petal nozzle now.
Thanks

cherydee

Love the dinosaur cup cakes.....grandson is dinosaur mad. It's his 4th birthday party coming up but don't think I could do anything so good as that.

nuttymummy

cherydee of course you could! Just cupcakes with a buttercream swirl and a fondant dinosaur!! just give it a go, and i bet youll be pleasantly surprised with the results....and your grandson will LOVE them
xx

awesome2_2

nuttymummy wrote: »

cherydee of course you could! Just cupcakes with a buttercream swirl and a fondant dinosaur!! just give it a go, and i bet youll be pleasantly surprised with the results....and your grandson will LOVE them
xx

Hi Nuttymummy
These cakes look yummy do you use cutters for your shapes and do you colur the fondant with the little pots of colouring gels
Also what do you use tio make your letters
Thanks

nuttymummy

if i have a cutter for the job ill use it (bought the dinosaur cutter at a cake show last year) but it can EASILY be done by hand...just draw one on paper, cut it out and use it as a template.
I use colour paste to colour the fondant,

and those particular letters are called clikstix xx

awesome2_2

Thanks Nuttymummy I have been looking for ages for alphabet and number cutters am going to order a set which contains all three from ebay. I am also thinking of ordering some coloured paste maybe 10 pots so need to hve a good think of what colours are best to order and will of course save me some pennies hopefull by being able to mix colours together to make other colours. (this is the theory anyway:rotfl:)

nuttymummy

yeah theres so many shades of colours and really you only need the basics to mix colours!

cord123

Sorry if this has already been asked but I would love to start cake making but wondered if you more experienced lovelies could help me out with what I need.....
Ie. what the different between fondant and ready roll etc.... wheres the best place to buy it and how do you colour it?
I bake a lot cakes for my oh to take to work and made this for my friends 25th, but havent ever really done anything with icing which I would love to do :-)

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/photo.php?fbid=10150106903508995&set=a.425762648994.202564.540163994&type=1&theater

I hope you can see that! :-) xx

nuttymummy

no difference between fondant n ready to roll it has many names!! including sugarpaste.

you can buy it pre coloured or colour it using pastes,
and the link didnt work for me LOL


sorry these answers are blunt...im trying to reply to lots of different e-mails, messages etc LOL xxx

bindiboo

awesome2 wrote: »

Hi Bindiboo

Your roses have come along nicely wich way do you point you nozzle? Do you have the wider end on the outside ans do you raise and lower it slighly when icing? Have done some with a different type of nozzle which were ok but want to have a try with a petal nozzle now.
Thanks

thanks, I was well impressed this time round. I used the rounded end pointing down and do semi circles of icing. I think if you tilt the nozzle slightly outwards as you go round the second time you will get slightly better petals.

I have just ordered a 1m star tip so I can try doing the swirl roses as I would like to cover a whole cake in swirl roses like Ive seen, looks so pretty and not forgetting the dusting of the essential glitter.

I am making my nephews wedding cake next week, EEEKKKKK:eek:! fingers crossed it goes well.