Homemade Cakes thread

RebekahR

LOL! Does the Glace icing go hard? And can you decorate that?

flea72 wrote: »

basic glace icing (water and icing sugar) on some buns

still prefer to use buttercream for most cakes though, as i hate the taste of sugarpaste, and nine times out of ten, if im making the cake, i also get to eat it at some point,, so its purely self-indulgent lol

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cookiedough38

I am a bit of a lurker on here, and thought id show you the link to my recent-ish cakes!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookiedough38/?saved=1

Hope you like them!

rubysmummy_2

cookiedough their fab!!

Does anyone know how to do a football cake? Well the receipe for it, i know you use a pirex dish but if someone could give me a foolproof receipe i would be grateful.

Thanks

gillian62

cookiedough38 wrote: »

I am a bit of a lurker on here, and thought id show you the link to my recent-ish cakes!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookiedough38/?saved=1

Hope you like them!

They are great - love the choc cake with the maltesers spilling over the edge.

wammy77

ALL the cakes look so yummy... making me so hungry!!!

I'm hoping to make push-up cakes for sons birthday in 2 weeks time - anyone know where I can buy push-up cases? I can only fin US based sellers

TIA

Giggles_Fairy

oooh whats a push up cake? it sounds interesting!

flea72

wammy77 wrote: »

ALL the cakes look so yummy... making me so hungry!!!

I'm hoping to make push-up cakes for sons birthday in 2 weeks time - anyone know where I can buy push-up cases? I can only fin US based sellers

TIA

ive no idea, where you would find push-ups in the uk

but most supermarkets sell smartie push-up icecreams, so you could utilise the pots for those (but it would mean having to eat quite a few icecreams lol)

if you bought from the US, you could have them within the week

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SIRENS

Hi
Am planning to do a sort of sweetie house for dd's birthday (sort of like the Hansel & Gretal house).
Was thinking of covering it in a ganache first but am concerned at the thickness of the chocolate.
Does anyone know if its possible to make it thicker like a frosting so it will hold the sweets and stuff on?

Thanks so much x

flea72

SIRENS wrote: »

Hi
Am planning to do a sort of sweetie house for dd's birthday (sort of like the Hansel & Gretal house).
Was thinking of covering it in a ganache first but am concerned at the thickness of the chocolate.
Does anyone know if its possible to make it thicker like a frosting so it will hold the sweets and stuff on?

Thanks so much x

i take it you are making a cake base, rather than gingerbread?

whipped ganache should be ok, but depending on the weight of the sweets, even buttercream would have trouble holding then vertically

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SIRENS

Hi
Sorry yes a cake base, I was thinking of just small sweets, like dolly mixtures, just on the roof?