Homemade Cakes thread

bindiboo

HannahIOW wrote: »

Wow, how do you make the rainbow icing if you don't mind me asking?

divide your butter cream and colour ( I used pink, blue, green and yellow) then layer into your piping bag one on top of the other. Pipe as usual, the first bit of butter cream will be dominate in the first colour layer (pink in my case) but as you pipe you naturally get rainbow stripes.

I also made the sponge rainbow coloured buy dividing cake mixture, colouring and then dolloping a bit of each colour in each case.

The effect of the icing is so cool:D

Stephb1986_2

OOOO I love rainbow icing that is sooooooooo coooolllllllllllll!!!!! I might have to try that!!

Steph xx

HannahIOW

I have to make these soon you have inspired me! I really need to add to my cake making inventory though, was alright when I did it for a living but now it's just the odd bit off baking at home my stuff is...lacking lol. I have sugar letters and some blue food colouring lol

lisa26_2

bindiboo wrote: »

anyone ever atempted anything like this before???

What di d you use to stack, dowels or pillars?

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You would need dowels in the cakes to give support then you can buy polystyrene seperators to give you the gaps where the flowers go. You sit the polystyrene on a thin cake board as otherwise the dowels would dig into it and it't all sink still! I got a seperator for my wedding cake from my local sugarcraft shop for about £2.

l33na

Have just read through the thread and am loving the cakes. I oft make cupcakes for the my kids but rarely top them...have beeni nspired. wil try the buttercream. Though have read somewhere that stork is not ideal for this?

hampshirebabe

Hi, I'm doing a cake for a family party and am trying to work out how I can put a trampoline on it, (its a garden)? I was wondering if I could do some black jelly in a thin circle, do you think that mightwork? or any other suggestions?

bindiboo

hampshirebabe wrote: »

Hi, I'm doing a cake for a family party and am trying to work out how I can put a trampoline on it, (its a garden)? I was wondering if I could do some black jelly in a thin circle, do you think that mightwork? or any other suggestions?

just googled some images










Looks like black fondant has been used on top of
cake to give height

flea72

hampshirebabe wrote: »

Hi, I'm doing a cake for a family party and am trying to work out how I can put a trampoline on it, (its a garden)? I was wondering if I could do some black jelly in a thin circle, do you think that mightwork? or any other suggestions?

how about using a jaffa cake?

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rubysmummy_2

hi everyone,

i was just wondering if anyone knew how to make buttercream as white as possible. i know it might not be possible to get it white but if someone could point me in the right direction to get it as near to white / cream as possible i would be extremely grateful.

Thanks - i love this thread, im very new to this so i find it very helpful for everyones tips

LV_Sue

I used Trex instead of marge when I needed white icing for some cupcakes. I think I got the recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery book. I worried it wouldn't taste right, but nobody complained
I don't like the taste of buttercream so I can't tell you what it actually tasted like, sorry