Homemade Cakes thread

Bluefire

Emms wrote: »

Bluefire your cupcakes look amazing. Would you mind telling me where you get your cases from? I have been looking for tall cupcakes cases for ages but just cant seem to find the right ones.

Thanks! I get my cases from http://www.cater4you.co.uk/acatalog/cupcake-and-muffin-cases.html - hope that helps!

awesome2_2

Hi Ladies
Need your help please. As it is Pudsey day on Friday we are having a fund raising few days at work so I thought of making some cakes. I am gooing to make some cupcakes and a large sponge cake covered with wihite sugarpaste and I thought of making small circles which are pudsey clours to put in the white icing. I wanted to make them out of Royal Icing but dont know what to put them in till they set. I thought of a pop bottle lid but then changed my mind as I probably will not get them out or they will comne out in pieces.

Any ideas??

Thanks
:beer:

Emms

You would probably be better to cut circles out of coloured sugarpaste. Would be much easier.

tilly122

I've been looking at the Carrot Cake recipie on page 20 of this thread. Has anyone made this?

Might give it a try later, just not sure which size tin to use really and how long to cook for? It was posted for use in the Ice Cream Cones and im not sure if this will make a difference?

awesome2_2

Emms wrote: »

You would probably be better to cut circles out of coloured sugarpaste. Would be much easier.

Hi Emms
Yes did think of this idea but thought all the different colours of sugar paste will be expensive and a waste as I would not need a large amount.
Thanks anyway :T

Emms

awesome2 wrote: »

Hi Emms
Yes did think of this idea but thought all the different colours of sugar paste will be expensive and a waste as I would not need a large amount.
Thanks anyway :T

The Dr Oetker box of coloured icing has all the colours you need, well its got red black blue yellow and green and thats the colours on pudseys eye patch, and its only about 3ish quid in the supermarket so maybe that would be ok?

http://www.oetker.co.uk/oetker_uk/html/default/debi-82sm5l.en.html

Emma

PinkTiger

hi everyone:hello:, first time on this thread, what talented people you are.

i bought a giant cupcake mould (silicon) & want to have a go later today, i am hopeless at baking, does anyone have an idiotproof basic sponge recipe they could share please as there were none provided with it?

i read somewhere (but cant find it now!) about using the same weight of ingredients, eg weigh the eggs & use same weight of flour & sugar, i liked the idea of this but cant remember what it said about the wet ingredients. also any hints & tips will be appreciated. many thanks x

HannahIOW

I usually count one medium egg (in its shell) as 2oz. So if you used for example (no idea how big your cake mould is) 3 eggs that's 6oz, so you also need 6oz cooking marg, 6oz self raising flour and 6oz caster sugar.

Normally I would sift the flour into the mixing bowl, add the sugar and marg, (electric?) whisk until creamed together, then slowly add the eggs (you want to have as much air as possible in the mixture).

cookiedough38

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=119872698074667&set=a.119870511408219.15845.119866558075281

these look amazing!

PinkTiger

HannahIOW wrote: »

I usually count one medium egg (in its shell) as 2oz. So if you used for example (no idea how big your cake mould is) 3 eggs that's 6oz, so you also need 6oz cooking marg, 6oz self raising flour and 6oz caster sugar.

Normally I would sift the flour into the mixing bowl, add the sugar and marg, (electric?) whisk until creamed together, then slowly add the eggs (you want to have as much air as possible in the mixture).

hi, thanks for this, I will give it a go, for some reason i thought you had to add some liquid, like milk as well, (i did say i'm useless at baking!:p). i actually have an electric mixer, a 50p car boot bargain (it even had the recipt from the 80's in the box!:eek:) so will give it a whirl & let you know how i get on x