Homemade Cakes thread

pointofnoreturn

Evansangel - well done that Rose looks great.

Evansangel

Thanks

I dont have any rose petal cutters so i followed this youtube tutorial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWYlklg6AU

It looked plain and i have about 20 bottles of blue food colouring so i thought i'd paint it

Im currently making pac man cupcakes, i have made pacman and the red ghost. Just need to do the others and then bake the cakes

Its a treat for DH

stardrops42

moosetastic - I love the cupcake tower, so pretty:beer:
evansangel - that rose is brilliant, well done:T

missworks2jobs

Here are the last of the Birthdays for August (thank god).
I made another number cake with those plastic cake tins.....this time it was carrot cake recipe from an old M&S baking book I bought with some xmas vouchers from work (and i've used it millions of times - was def a good purchase). Mixed up blue icing with food colouring & icing sugar & milk (paler blue colour) then used leftover green, white, yellow & blue roll out icing to make different coloured lily pads. The frog was made of coloured marzipan (gloves needed or you'll have green/yellow tinged hands all day like I did - I looked like I had jaundice).

The jelly frog sweets I couldn't find anywhere, tried wilkinsons, home bargains, sainsburys and everywhere - in the end we bought a jumbo bag of haribo kiddies supermix and ate everything else that wasn't a foamy frog! The frog idea was because when I first met my friend (who's birthday it was) he had just passed his driving test and was most distraught about running over a frog - so they've been a theme for his birthdays ever since - mean but he appreciated it. As soon as he saw the cake he said he promised he wouldn't squash this one!

missworks2jobs

And my mam's cake it was her birthday on bank holiday monday
Its just a chocolate sponge - a round one, sandwiched with chocolate butter cream (butter, icing sugar & cocoa). Then I trimmed the bottom edge off the cake to make it paw-print shaped. I used chocolate buttercream on the outside to make the chocolate roll out icing stick (the chocolate roll out icing was 500g on special £1.69 at Sainsbury's) cant remember the brand, I think it was Regal ice but it was in a pale blue box. I then made 3 cupcakes with the leftover sponge mix and covered them in the buttercream & roll out icing and pushed them upagainst the big cake to make it look like a paw.


My mam has two big soft German shepherd dogs who follow here everywhere - so I made them out of some scraps of black roll out icing from the piano cake I made a while ago and some yellow marzipan. I love making stuff out of the roll out icing - its just like playing with plasticine or play-doh. I use jam or glycerine to stick bits together, then dust them with cornflour and leave them in the kitchen to dry them out a bit so they're more solid. Ive put figures in the fridge before thinking it would harden them....but as soon as they get to room temperature they just start to flop and turn into a puddle when they begin to thaw.

missworks2jobs

ickle_me wrote: »

Sesame Street Giant Cookie Monster, and character cupcakes

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS ONE.....I love the cookie monster - genius idea putting the big cookies in his mouth too!!!! Ikkleme - its amazing! I have to do a dinosaur cake for my friend's little boy he's 5 in October and I've never done anything dinosaur-themed before!

Evansangel

I finally finished my pacman cupcakes. Then knocked icing sugar on some


Second fondant rose attempt:

zippybungle

missworks2jobs wrote: »

OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS ONE.....I love the cookie monster - genius idea putting the big cookies in his mouth too!!!! Ikkleme - its amazing! I have to do a dinosaur cake for my friend's little boy he's 5 in October and I've never done anything dinosaur-themed before!

This is a Dinosaur Cake I was for my son a few years ago, it was just a chocolate cake with a dinosaur made out of a maderia cake, which I covered with fondant icing (I used a stick of rock for it's long neck). The dinosaur is supposed to be in a swamp

Zippy x (ps loved your german shephered dogs)

ebaybaby

Lovin this thread, even though Ive never made a cake on the scale some of you have! I stick to cupcakes! Thank-you stardrops for the frosting recipe!

On the subject of cakes have any of you come across a blog called Cake Wrecks! Link below. Basically its when cakes go wrong but they do have a "Sunday Sweets" section with the most amazing cakes that will give the talented gals/guys on here some ideas!

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

Also anther lovely site with tons of recipes and just beautiful pictures is Bakerella:

http://www.bakerella.com/

And the last one is a little bit of fun:

http://www.allthingscupcake.com/

Enjoy cup-cakers! x x x

dawnybabes

Couple this week :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51492466@N08/4952186924/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51492466@N08/4952186954/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51492466@N08/4952186998/in/photostream

Off now to do a club penguin for my little man ....