Homemade Cakes thread

lisa26_2

cookiedough38 wrote: »

Thats interesting to hear that you buy them in, I am doing my first wedding cake next june, I need plenty of practice before hand! She wants one tier to be fruit, would it be worth buying in one from a supermarket uniced for this rather than making it.

I buy my fruit cakes in too, from here:

http://www.almondart.com/shop/Fruit_Cake_Bases.html

They are delicious and slice really well and the service from that company is fab, I've used them loads (and I'm not connected to them in anyway!).

It's really not worth the hassle of making your own. these are cheaper and are far better than anything I could make, no worrying about having to feed them or that they'll crumble when sliced!

I'm going to have a go at banana and white choc cupcakes at the weekend and I'd also like to try some iced sugar cookies if I get time.

danielag

wammy77 wrote: »

jlp - That's great!!! I'm hoping to make a pinata cake for my little girls birthday in May - how easy was it to get the chocolate domw out of the mold??

zippybungle - Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :T

My new filling nozzle (#230) and large M1 swirl nozzle arrived last week :j so I made Vanilla & Nutella Polka Dot Glitter-Dust Cupcakes for my sons birthday party tea.

Filling the cupcakes with nutella was far easier than I though it would be, took a few minutes to do the whole batch!! Looked rather impressive when they were cut in halt to reveal the chocolate centres

They were yummy!

Hi, i know this was posted a while back, (i've spent all evening reading the whole thread!!) These look fab, could you please share your recipe, i would love to try this, thanks

got-it-spend-it

abis21 wrote: »

Hello fellow bakers :wave:

I used to have a little cake business from home, but gave it in cos it was getting in the way of weekends and family time.

I'm making my own wedding cake and cupcakes tho for 5 weeks time. Want to make it really special obviously with me used to doing it for a business.

Just got the fruit cake for cutting in the oven and boooyyyyy does it smell good. :T I decided to do 2, so that I will be able to taste one and not worry on the wedding day that I had done something wrong, and also cos I knew my OH would want to eat it when he smelt it :rotfl:

For the cupcakes, I'm thinking of doing 6 different flavours, as I have 6 different cupcake wrappers mainly.

I have a couple of days off before the wedding and a couple of helpers to help with all the washing up

Flavour wise, I'm thinking chocolate - done loads of times before, and lemon - same, am very practiced.

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting - this is a new one but I have done a practice run and they tasted fab

Raspberry & white chocolate - as above

Vanilla - wanting to add jam to the middle of this, so that its not just 'plain' if you get me. Need to practice this one, and see if I can add the jam before cooking and see if it comes out ok.

Banana cupcakes with caramel frosting. This is the one I want to try out next. Can anyone help with recipes etc? Have done some googling and seem to get some mixed review from different places. Have you ladies got any top tips?

Sorry for rambling - am just quite excited by it all

I made banana caramel cupcakes for a picnic I went to today. I used this recipe http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=44316116&postcount=145 but I used four bananas, blitzed with my hand blender to get them really smooth. I cream the sugar and butter first, then add the bananas and all the other wet ingredients, then the add the dry.

For the buttercream I did a standard vanilla buttercream, then swirled Starbucks caramel drizzle (just used that one as I had it in the cupboard) through it before piping it. I topped them with an organic banana chip each and they looked and tasted fab.

HTH

bindiboo

Waiting in for the ups man to collect a parcel so decided to do some cupcakes to take down tomrw to my folks.

Sally22_2

Love the icing, im going to give that a go soon

babyfreckles

Bindi - your cakes look amazing!

lisa26_2

Bindi, what nozzle did you use for the multi-coloured ones? Is there a specific technique or do you just do it like a normal swirl?

cookiedough38

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookiedough38/5863995912/in/photostream

cookiedough38

how do you add a photo in, its been awhile?

AnnieH

Just finished these for my sister's wedding anniversary tomorrow


And some dirt and worm cakes for the kids