Homemade Cakes thread

AnnieH

cherydee wrote: »

AnnieH.....can you tell me do you cook the cake mixture inside the ice cream cornets and if you do....do you fill them up very far.? Thanks

Hi, yes I cooked the mixture in the cornets. I filled them up about 3/4 full, but this was too high. So I would say fill them 2/3rds full. The stiff buttercream is a Wilton recipe and really helped keep the definition of the whippy effect.
http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Buttercream-Icing

code-a-holic

Thanks for the lovely comments! I didnt pipe any lettering - i cheated!! The castle cake lettering is acutally fondant, rolled in to thin sausages. The letters I only got recently from ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Alphabet-birthday-cookie-cutter-mould-sugar-craft-press-/150604695508?pt=UK_Kitchen_Accessories&hash=item2310bd47d4

BEC1980

Lovely cakes everyone!

I am considering starting to make cakes, maily because I have just had a baby and would love to be able to make her birthday cakes! The baking part in fine and I am looking at starting a decorating course in September but can anyone suggest any good websites/books to learn from? Also, the icing on all your cakes looks really smooth, whenever I have tried in the past the icing goes into the dips in the cake - how do you make yours smooth please?

babyrut

AnnieH wrote: »

Here are the cakes I made for my charidee coffee morning tomorrow.


Ice cream cone cupcakes

Pineapple and coconut cupcakes, and blueberry muffins

Carrot, and black forest cupcakes

Froggy Cake pops

Wow love the frogs how did you make them?

AnnieH

babyrut wrote: »

Wow love the frogs how did you make them?

Hi, I made cake pops as per https://www.bakerella.com recipe, dipped in green candy melts, with sweeties for eyes, and a black writing icing mouth.

nuttymummy

great cakies everyone!
i have still yet to try cake pops...i thought candy melts were an american product and wernt supposed to taste all that good? xx

money_saving_diva

AnnieH wrote: »

Hi, yes I cooked the mixture in the cornets. I filled them up about 3/4 full, but this was too high. So I would say fill them 2/3rds full. The stiff buttercream is a Wilton recipe and really helped keep the definition of the whippy effect.
http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Buttercream-Icing

Do they taste ok with the cornet & cake? Did you use a massive nozzle?
I think I might have to try these this week!

code-a-holic

Im amazed that the cornets worked in the oven! They dont look to have changed colour!! I made ice cream cone cakes but just put a cupcake in the
cone.

flea72

code-a-holic wrote: »

I just can not bring myself to buy candy melts - it will bump up the price

that would depend on how much you charge for your cake pops and how big you make them

most people i know sell them for £1.50 for a plain ball and £2+ for something like the hello kitty ones - sizewise they are similar to a ferrero rocher, so 1-2 bites

production costs around 30p per pop, thats for ingredients, stick and wrapper, but excluding man hours - most people work on min 3x production costs for retail price

F

AnnieH

money_saving_diva wrote: »

Do they taste ok with the cornet & cake? Did you use a massive nozzle?
I think I might have to try these this week!

I didn't get to taste any, but they went so fast, so I assume they were nice
I used a Wilton M1 (1M?) nozzle, which is pretty huge.