Homemade Cakes thread

babyfreckles

Can anyone point me in the right direction for food colouring gels? Id love to have a go at making a rainbow cake, and read that normal food colourings dont colour properly..

Thanks in advance!

AnnieH

babyfreckles wrote: »

Can anyone point me in the right direction for food colouring gels? Id love to have a go at making a rainbow cake, and read that normal food colourings dont colour properly..

Thanks in advance!

PartyAnimalOnline have an eBay store and they sell rainbow paste colours in a set.

babyfreckles

Thanks I will be having a look when I am home from work (Ebay is blocked here!! )

cherydee

Busy making cupcakes for my daughter that are going to be served tomorrow between 5 - 8 pm...am I okay piping the buttercream topping on tonight or should I leave them until tomorrow ? I am trying my very first recipe out of the hummingbird book "caramel cupcakes" .....the amounts for the frosting seem generous but I better stick with what they say...also thought about drizzling Nestles Carnation Caramel over the piped buttercream tonight ? tomorrow ?

awesome2_2

Hi Minxz

Are you using mormal liquid food colouring that you but fRom a supermarket? I would try a coluring paste you only need a tiny bit and it gives a really strong colour or you could try using Trex insted of butter this wil give a white buttecream for you so would probably be a good base.
HTH

X_YuMmY_X

cake I made my brother for his birthday!

AnnieH

wow! that's a great cake!

I got this at home time from school

Golden_Anemone

Hi ladies. I love your cakes - you are all so talented and generous with sharing your pics. :-) I will have to put some of mine on photobucket so I can share them here.


A quick question. I tried my local cake decorating shop today for a Wilton 2D nozzle to pipe buttercream roses on cupcakes for my sister's birthday at the weekend. Sadly they were out of them so I bought a 2C which looked similar. Has anyone used this and does it give a similar effect?

zippybungle

Hi,

A few pages back I have put a picture of a Mario/Luigi Cake I made, it has 'shooting stars' sticking out of the top of it which someone gave me from a Tesco Birthday Cake. I was wondering if anyone knew where I can buy these plain sticks from? what are they called? I have spent the last 30 mins or so on google trying to find them!

Thanks

Zippy x

cherydee

zippybungle wrote: »

Hi,

A few pages back I have put a picture of a Mario/Luigi Cake I made, it has 'shooting stars' sticking out of the top of it which someone gave me from a Tesco Birthday Cake. I was wondering if anyone knew where I can buy these plain sticks from? what are they called? I have spent the last 30 mins or so on google trying to find them!

Thanks

Zippy x

How about bamboo skewers (like this, ebay Item number: 190546970031) or kebab sticks