Homemade Cakes thread

limpy-jim

Here is the one he made for DS1 Birthday last year - again we used the asda photo cake as a base ( can you see a theme here...usually get the large one for about £2!!) Anyway DS1 is Beatles daft - he tried to make the outlines from icing but it kept sticking to worksurface so decided to paint it instead

newmee

Hooray!!! I've finished reading this thread now...thanks all so much for the tips and fantastic creations.....off to try and ski to Tesco and have a go myself

Stephb1986_2

I made chocolate fondants yesteday take around 20 mins from start to finish per batch of 9.

On the white chocolate ones we did for some reason the butter and the white chocolate started to separate and curdle. So had to throw it away luckily had extra in anyway will take some pics later as they are in the freezer.

Steph xx

awesome2_2

Hi Ladies
Here is my finished Christmas Cake

Cake1 by welshchick2, on Flickr

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/52427443@N07/5277253429/" title="Cake2 by welshchick2, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5282/5277253429_0e80065b3d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Cake2" /></a>

awesome2_2

Hi Ladies
Here is my finished Christmas Cake


Cake2 by welshchick2, on Flickr


Cake1 by welshchick2, on Flickr

bindiboo

here's the fresh cream, egg free cake I made this Xmas




I quite liked the effect I created with swirled choc on the sides..

kiwichick

Hi All,

I'm hoping for some advice please if you dont mind? One of best friends is emigrating to Oz in 3 weeks and we are having a farewell party for her and her family. I would love to make a cool farewell cake for them and though about the Oz theme.

Was wondering whether to do an oz shaped cake or a large roasting tin type one with an oz outline?

Want to make thing like kangaroos, boomerangs etc to decorate with but may try to buy plastic figures as have never done any icing work.

To date the most ambitious cake I've done was a pair of boobs for a mates husbands birthday!!

Thanks in advance,
Allison.

Evansangel

I got a Tala Icing Syringe set for xmas And some cupcake books, so im very happy

Cant wait to try it out but we have no butter :eek:

deborah64

My 15 year old Aimee made this last week. I am so very proud of her, its a recipe from a book we have, and she mixes it all by hand.
It was delish.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45460537@N03/5294382487/

emlou2009

I've made a few cakes this December

Christmas tree giant cupcake

For this one I used the giant cupcake mould. I made three cakes in the top mould, kept one whole and hollowed out the other two and sandwiched with buttercream. Unfortunately one tier fell apart during the stacking so it ended up having only two stacks for the tree top. It still went down very well at my works do though!


I also made curly wurly Rudolph and rocky road cupcakes for a Christmas present for my friend!