Homemade Cakes thread

wammy77

WOW - all the cakes that everyone had made are FANTASTIC!!! :T

I'm hoping to make a STIG cake for my sons 9th birthday in March and a Fairies and Elves theme Pinata cake for my little girls 4th Birthday in May - hoping to get some inspiration and ideas from this thread

I made this Lightening McQueen cake in December for my newphews 3rd birthday:



This was my sons 8th birthday cake - Mario Kart race track:



And this was my little girls Princes Fairy Castle cake for her first birthday:

nikki2804

Wow, i've read a fair few pages of this thread and i'm in total awe! The cakes are amazing!!

I'm so inspired that i've decided to try and make my OH's birthday cake, its in 8 days =S (after seeing the lovely ones here the supermarket ones seem boring!!)

I was thinking a cake that looks like a parcel? With a fancy ribbon make from the chocolate playdough mixture? Also, I want to make rocky road cupcakes.

My question is though, what would be the best cake recipe for the main cake? I quite fancy a choccy one, would the chocolate cola recipe work? And lastly, how would I make the chocolate covering? Can you get chocolate royal icing?

TIA

newmrslockwood

Hi all. i have an 18th Birthday Cake for my nephew to make in next couple of weeks and i am really struggling for ideas on what to do. I've had a look through pics on here and thought someone could help with ideas?
I was thinking maybe a tiered cake, and quite colourful but thats about as far as I've got.

bindiboo

google images

the source of inspiration

http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&biw=1366&bih=549&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=boys+18th+birthday+cake&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

flea72

newmrslockwood wrote: »

Hi all. i have an 18th Birthday Cake for my nephew to make in next couple of weeks and i am really struggling for ideas on what to do. I've had a look through pics on here and thought someone could help with ideas?
I was thinking maybe a tiered cake, and quite colourful but thats about as far as I've got.

what are you cake making skills like? do you want something comical, sophisticated, simple, themed?

i must admit for men, i tend to go understated, they dont really want little figures, whistles and bangs (unless you are going down the 'joke' route)

something like this, in their sports teams colours, is quite popular (and very simple to do)




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awesome2_2

HI Ladies
Need some help please. My son is 10 soon and wants a football/footie pitch cake so thought of making a ptich with a half football in the middle.
Would you just do one layer for the ptich and maybe try to slice the football in half to fill with filling or do a two layer cake and a solid football? Which do you think will be easier?
Thanks

flea72

awesome2 wrote: »

HI Ladies
Need some help please. My son is 10 soon and wants a football/footie pitch cake so thought of making a ptich with a half football in the middle.
Would you just do one layer for the ptich and maybe try to slice the football in half to fill with filling or do a two layer cake and a solid football? Which do you think will be easier?
Thanks

what cake covering are you planning on using?

if ready roll icing, then i would do a filling on both pitch and ball. if using buttercream, then i wouldnt bother filling either (or maybe just the ball)

usually when i make football pitch, i make a slab cake, and use buttercream to cover it (dont bother with filling). colour dessicated coconut green, and sprinkle all over for grass. if making a football, i use a pyrex bowl, but dont make it very deep. i find half a ball doesnt look right, as it stands too proud, about 1/3 - 1/4 of the depth gives a more realistic look. i also prefer the old style stitched footballs too, so rather than going for hexagons, i do blockwork (easier to re-create too) - although younger children might not recognise it as a football

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nikki2804

nikki2804 wrote: »

Wow, i've read a fair few pages of this thread and i'm in total awe! The cakes are amazing!!

I'm so inspired that i've decided to try and make my OH's birthday cake, its in 8 days =S (after seeing the lovely ones here the supermarket ones seem boring!!)

I was thinking a cake that looks like a parcel? With a fancy ribbon make from the chocolate playdough mixture? Also, I want to make rocky road cupcakes.

My question is though, what would be the best cake recipe for the main cake? I quite fancy a choccy one, would the chocolate cola recipe work? And lastly, how would I make the chocolate covering? Can you get chocolate royal icing?

TIA

Just bumping, TIA

flea72

you can buy chocolate ready roll icing, in sure sainsburys sell it

chocolate cola cake might be a bit moist, but seeing as you arent planning on shaping the cake, it could work ok. the only thing with sponge though, is it tends to drop crumbs everywhere, and if you are using a light coloured icing, it can start to look a bit messy and dirty, but as long as you use a decent layer of buttercream underneath, you should be ok

what do you need to know for the rocky road cupcakes? personally im not sure how well they would work, as rockyroad is a refridgerator cake, and the basic ingredients would just sink/melt in a cupcake - or are you just planning on making normal cupcakes and decorating with marshmallows, biscuits and nuts?

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julie03

has anyone got a tried and tested moist vanilla sponge cake recipe, need to be able to shape it and needs to have a fairly good life on it approx days, will be covering in fondant icing but buttercream in the middle
thanks
julie