Homemade Cakes thread

Savvybunny2009

Hi everyone, I don't know if this is the best place to ask but I think you all are so talented and would know better than anone else.

I have just got back into baking, I have decided to try some cupcakes out later this week and have some tempting recipes. Problem is hubby however insists that he wants cookies, not just any cookies but the soft chewy kind you get at place like millies cookies. Does anyone have a good recipe for something like this?

Thank you xx

lucasmum

Savvybunny2009 wrote: »

Hi everyone, I don't know if this is the best place to ask but I think you all are so talented and would know better than anone else.

I have just got back into baking, I have decided to try some cupcakes out later this week and have some tempting recipes. Problem is hubby however insists that he wants cookies, not just any cookies but the soft chewy kind you get at place like millies cookies. Does anyone have a good recipe for something like this?

Thank you xx

If you do a forum search for millies cookies there should be a recipe. I have seen it on the old style forum. If you can't find it I'm sure one of the lovely ladies there will point you in the right direction!!:)

code-a-holic

As the person that started this thread, I should really post more often! Just been looking back and seeing some great creative cakes, will share you with the ones I have done over the last few months.
Somene mentioned cupcake bouquets - I have been offering them and they go down really well! Mine are on cocktail sticks in to a polysterene ball.



Not wanting to fill a page - here's a link to my album! http://www.flickr.com/photos/35471356@N02/sets/72157625874332242/with/5461952597/

Bettybigboobs

What nozzle are you using on your pink boquet cakes please? x

dawnteabag

Hello
Does anyone have a picure of the Red Velvet Cake that that lady on the bbc baking series made. I nearly bought the recipe book ? 'baking made easy'? at the weekend as my friend had said the cake was stunning but there's no picture in the book as far as I could make out - no chance I'd be able to make it without a picture to work from .

rubysmummy_2

Here are some of the cakes i have made

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?aid=270496&id=708146635

x

bargainhuntergill

Hi guys, I would love to buy my FIL a whisky shaped bottle cake for his 60th birthday but wow they are so expensive so I thought I may attempt to try myself. Can any kind person guide me where to start. I have googled and got so far - use a rectangular baking dish for cake then carve shape out??? Is the firm icing you see specially made or do you buy it like that? and how do you get such intricate writing and design on to give the effect of what is says on the bottle or do you print a pic and stick this on (then inedible) any help is greatly received and appreciated

Giggles_Fairy

Bargainhuntergill : I have never actually made a proper cake like that but you can get roll out icing from the supermarket (Im sure one of the mroe experienced ladies will correct me if this is the wrong type) which you may need to just colour. Then if I was you I would just buy the icing writing pens that they have at the supermarket to write the label details on. We had the one for my Dad made by a friend of a friend and the one thing she didnt do which I thought was quite obvious and a really nice touch is to write EST (Dads year of birth). She did it exactly as it is on a whiskey bottle but having your dads year of birth would be cute. I think its EST Year, it might be somethign similar but you get the point

flea72

bargainhuntergill wrote: »

Hi guys, I would love to buy my FIL a whisky shaped bottle cake for his 60th birthday but wow they are so expensive so I thought I may attempt to try myself. Can any kind person guide me where to start. I have googled and got so far - use a rectangular baking dish for cake then carve shape out??? Is the firm icing you see specially made or do you buy it like that? and how do you get such intricate writing and design on to give the effect of what is says on the bottle or do you print a pic and stick this on (then inedible) any help is greatly received and appreciated

to make a bottle cake, i buy a tinfoil tray (the thin ones you use on a bbq are best), get a bottle and then mould the tray around the bottle (if its a bit stiff, heating with a hairdryer helps)

if you want to have an edible label for the cake and you dont think you are up to doing it free-hand, then in word or photoshop create the labels, and then go on ebay and buy an icing photocake topper of the labels you have created

hth F

bargainhuntergill

flea72 wrote: »

to make a bottle cake, i buy a tinfoil tray (the thin ones you use on a bbq are best), get a bottle and then mould the tray around the bottle (if its a bit stiff, heating with a hairdryer helps)

if you want to have an edible label for the cake and you dont think you are up to doing it free-hand, then in word or photoshop create the labels, and then go on ebay and buy an icing photocake topper of the labels you have created

hth F

Daft question but I dont get what you mean in your last bit, Id design it on word how do I get this on to a photocake topper?? Do I send it and they do it?

I get it......having a dumb moment. thank you so much I didnt even know things like this existed