Homemade Cakes thread

missworks2jobs

Hope i'm not bumping the thread too much - just wanting to share ideas.
This one's a golf cake, green roll out icing, blue water & icing sugar mix for the water, crushed digestive biscuit for the sand. The flag is a cocktail stick with a hole pushed into the icing, and the golf balls are the sugar spikey balls you get in the icing sprinkles tubs from most supermarkets but you could use mint imperials or any round white mints really.

missworks2jobs

This is an infamous hedgehog cake, the tin was on sale from cakes cookies & crafts website and i've used it loads. Its basically just an oval egg shaped tin with hedgehog face features. Then I melted chocolate and poured it into royal icing powder and iced the cake, then while the icings still not set pushed in the chocolate buttons, the nose is a leftover piece of marzipan, the eyes are leftover bits of white roll out icing with raisins stuck on. I keep all my scraps of roll out icing and wrap them in clingfilm - if they dry out a brush with some glycerine (comes in little bottles like the food colouring, i the same aisles in supermarket too) usually brings it back to life.

missworks2jobs

This is just a basic carrot cake iced with creamcheese & icing sugar frosting and I made some carrots out of coloured marzipan (wear gloves when rolling drips of food colouring into marzipan or you end up with orange & green fingers for days).

missworks2jobs

This is the number cake tins coming in handy again.....the icing was just cocoa, icing sugar and a little black food colouring to make it look space coloured. I was going to put some little yellow stars or silver balls on there too - but had ran out. The heads of the doctor & master were from a kids toy my hubby found and we made the bodies out of roll out icing (you may need to freeze it or leave it out to harden as ours were too fresh and kept falling over). The darlek was made from roll out icing and a coctail stick for the plunger bit, the white bits are just the white sugar balls (you could use the silver ones but as mentioned earlier mine vanished - typical as I have about 3 tubes of the things now).

The tardis was made from blue roll out icing, we just (I say we - hubby got me a picture printed off from the internet) cut out little squares and layered them on top of each other to make door frame shapes, and brushed it with blackcurrant jam (or any thats dark) to make it look all shiney and hide all the cornflour from all the rolling out & cutting)

Evansangel

Love the Dr Who cake!

pennib

Wow what lovely cakes on here I'm drooling!
2jobs; You've been busy, it's nice that your hubs is involved as well (and not just the eating part!)

pennib

stardrops42 wrote: »

Made some cupcakes for the girls at work, to say that they went down well is an understatement:rotfl:They lasted about 5 minutes:D

They are absolutely beautiful. Can I ask what the topping is, is it cream cheese or butter icing? You should do them professionaly:T Bet you get a few orders from work.

stardrops42

awesome2 wrote: »

Hi Stardrops
Could you give me the recipe for the toppimg please on your cupcakes please
Thanks

pennib wrote: »

They are absolutely beautiful. Can I ask what the topping is, is it cream cheese or butter icing? You should do them professionaly:T Bet you get a few orders from work.

Sorry just seen this:o If you (or anyone else) send me a pm I will send you the recipe for the topping;)

jennypdolphin

I made this cake for my sons 4th birthday party.
it is choc and vanilla sponge which I then froze before carving, stacking (with the help of skewers) and icing with ready to roll icing coloured with blue powder and red paste.

dawnybabes

Heres one I made this week : http://www.flickr.com/photos/51492466@N08/4935347819/