Homemade Cakes thread

RustyFlange

deejane wrote: »

Hi Rusty, I made one for my son last year,

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=147689&id=317140568039#!/photo.php?pid=3537992&id=317140568039&ref=fbx_album

I made it using a loaf tin, I bought 3 different colours of icing, or you could colour your own. For the bumpy bits on top, I used marshmallows, which I wrote lego on each bumpy bit with a edible pen which I got from ebay, and the men are just lego men.

Debbie

Oh wow that is fantastic!! love the idea of using marshmallows, I was thinking about making some smaller cupcakes and using a circle cutter!! not sure how I will get on but hopefully it will be fine!! scary though! Think I might steal your idea about the lego men, sure he won't miss a few!!
Thankyou for the reply. I planned to use ready coloured icing for ease lol nothing like a bit of cheating!

skintbint_2

hi rusty - just a little tip to get your icing to stick "dirty Ice" (cover the sponge) first with butter cream, just a skimming, and the rolling icing will stick to the cake properlyand it makes the surface a bit more even, also when rolling it use cornflour for dusting the board instead of icing sugar that way it stops going sticky

hth

skint

deejane

RustyFlange wrote: »

Oh wow that is fantastic!! love the idea of using marshmallows, I was thinking about making some smaller cupcakes and using a circle cutter!! not sure how I will get on but hopefully it will be fine!! scary though! Think I might steal your idea about the lego men, sure he won't miss a few!!
Thankyou for the reply. I planned to use ready coloured icing for ease lol nothing like a bit of cheating!

Just a thought, they are selling mini loaf cases in sainsburys at the mo, quite cheaply, 10 in the pack for about £2 ish. YOu could always make individual cakes and build it to look like a wall and use mini marshmallows.

My soon to be seven year old has put his request in for a gogo crazy bones cake, mmmm great! Although I have to say it was better than some of his suggestions.

Evansangel

Not yet, its been so rainy i dont want to walk into town

I might do a simple round white cake, but was thinking of having fondant roses around the bottom. Just need to teach myself how to make them

awesome2_2

Hi Fellow Cake Lovers!
Could someone let me have a recipe for the icing you put on top of cupcakes please (the one you pipe on) Have found a few on the old tinternet but you have to melt sugar and it all seems a little faffy

Ta:beer:

missworks2jobs

Here are some of my attempts:
with plastic number cake molds (they were £5.99 each and i've used them Looooooads) the chocolate footballs were from sainsbury's and the little nets & football men were from a kids party bag section in hobbycraft, green roll out icing and that was pretty much it

missworks2jobs

and my bear cakes for my friend's teddy bears picnic party........

missworks2jobs

and a mickey mouse cake (simple sponge with 2 iced muffins and a sliced up cupcake for the nose) again this was with roll out icing. I made the black icing with cocoa powder & black food colouring added to royal icing as I thought it might taste a bit bitter THAT black if it was all food colouring and the cocoa would help with the dark colour.

missworks2jobs

This was our latest creation - a chocolate square sponge iced with roll out white icing, star sprinkles from home bargains......the piano was made from chocoalte rice crispie cake mix (hubby made me a piano shape mold from a cardboard box, we lined the mold with greased clingfilm, poured in the chocolate crispies pressed down and left to set in the fridge) then we iced the crispie cake piano with roll out icing stuck down with buttercream (chocolate of course) and stabbed cocktail sticks through the legs to make it stay upright on the cake.
the music was just sugar paper (dr oetker) from sainsbury's that we wrote out "happy birthday" (we googled "happy birthday sheet music") and it was written on with a food colouring pen we got for £1.99 from the local cake shop

missworks2jobs

This is a bonfire cake (chocolate sponge made in a pudding bowl) covered in yellow butter icing, runny orange icing sugar made with food colouring and icing sugar & water, and some strips of red roll out icing I had left as scraps. I then stuck chocolate finger biscuits and matchmakers to the cake using the rest of the buttercream. It was scoffed in about 3mins after we'd finished with the sparklers on bonfire night